Deadline: Friday 15th May 2026 at 5pm (BST)

Lip Service is a quarterly publication by the Vagina Museum in the style of old school community magazines. In this A5 zine, the content ranges from expanded exhibition content and other longform commentary and cultural critique, to horoscopes and letters. The hope is that it serves as a forum for community engagement and knowledge exchange.

As a creative, promotional and educational outlet, Lip Service also serves as another channel by which the Vagina Museum might share our work with the public. Our work being:

1. Spreading knowledge and raising awareness of the gynaecological anatomy and health

2. Giving confidence to people to talk about issues surrounding the gynaecological anatomy 

3. Erasing the stigma around the body and gynaecological anatomy

4. Acting as a forum for feminism, women’s rights, the LGBT+ community and the intersex community

5. Challenging heteronormative and cisnormative behaviour

6. Promoting intersectional, feminist and trans-inclusive values

We are accepting submissions for Letters, Commentary, Fiction, as well as questions for Ms Fallopia.

Commentary, fiction, visual and question submissions should respond to, engage with, or in some sense tackle the theme of the pregnant body. We’d be hard pressed to think of an aspect of the human experience more fraught, more emotionally, psychologically, culturally, politically, physiologically complex than pregnancy. It is a biological necessity for the continuation of our species; not even half of us are capable of it; it is physiologically transformative; it problematises notions of individuality, identity, autonomy, and contiguity; it is framed as alternately miraculous and perfectly natural, mundane even; the pregnant body has been medicalised, colonised, reclaimed, gendered, liberated, and silenced. 

Naturally, this has all been richly explored by writers, academics, performers, and artists throughout time. There is nary a corner unmapped, a path untread. What’s left then? What more is there to say? We invite contributors to treat this issue like a playground, a laboratory for whimsical, unrefined, unsavoury, elsewhere unpublishable ideas. Climb into the cracks, sweep the dust out of corners and teeter on the edges of existing discourse. We invite reflections on the pregnant body that get into the granularity of lived experience, that leave us with more questions than answers, that celebrate the uncertain and particular.

The zine is a collaborative, mixed media project so we encourage not only written submissions, but visual submissions also

For a full description of the sections see here.

For full editorial guidelines see here.

For submission guidelines, please see below.