Deadline: Friday 11th September 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 On Ageing. Ageing, although simply the result of passing time, is a phenomenon mired in controversy. From demographic fears about ageing populations to uptake in so-called ‘preventative’ cosmetic procedures, ageing causes all manner of anxieties on an individual as well as population level. This is not only true of ageing in the later stages of life, but at all stages of development. Cultures and societies all over the world track the passing of time in different ways, commemorating milestones at different occasions. A child’s first laugh, menarche, a voice breaking, going off to university or landing your first job, the first time it hurts to sit on the floor, menopause, that red Ferrari purchase, the passing down of an heirloom or a first dance. Some, but not all, of these milestones are marked in the body and the body is where so much of the trepidation around ageing lives.

We’re interested, then, in explorations of what ageing, growing up or growing old means. What does it mean to ‘get old’? Or to age gracefully? Who gets to decide? How are ideas about gender, about disability, sexuality, aesthetics, and power entangled in getting older? How is ageing differently understood, experienced, thought about around the world? We invite submissions, both written and visual, exploring these ideas.

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.