Submit Your Story

Our main features are commissioned and curated by regional editors. Still, Tomorrow Club warmly welcomes  submissions from young writers who want to share their stories with an international audience. If you’re under 35, we encourage you to pitch your story to us.

While we prioritise submissions from the focus region, currently Africa, we are open to any young person, anywhere.

We’re looking for personal stories, in fiction or non-fiction with a youth specific perspective that connects with our mission. 

The format can be long articles, commentary, essays, poems, short stories, lyrics and other creative forms of expression based on the written word (ranging from 600 to 2,000 words). Video story formats are also welcome. If speaking out comes with risks, the option to write under a PEN name is available

To submit, send us your pitch/idea (no more than 400 words), along with a biography and any links to previously published work, if you have them. If not, don't worry that's partly why we are here. If your idea suits with our mission, we’ll work with you.

Email your pitches to: [email protected]. Our editors review all submissions and will aim to respond in a week if we plan to move forward with your pitch. 

1. Amplify your voice, story and the important issues you want to raise. We will make space for young voices often ignored by mainstream media, and share them across our global network with PEN. Collectively we can build a network of brave young voices and enable exchanges between them.
2. Be a guest on our podcast series 'The Brave Young Voices of Today and Tomorrow'
3. Read and learn more about people around your age across borders, the messages they carry, their struggles perspectives, work and experiences. We wish to develop new collaborations and strategies to support one another. 
4. Connect with the world’s largest association of writers, PEN. Join its international network for free expression and be part of its local communities. If interested, fill in this form and we can support and follow up your request to join one of PEN’s 90 centres in different countries.
5. Support your peers and alert us to other young people seeking to speak up or facing risks against their free expression. We can publish their messages, issue calls for solidarity as “Empty Chairs” and explore safe ways to support them from letter writing to creative campaigns. We can connect you to established experts across PEN and sister platforms and civil society organisations who may be able to offer advice, guidance or support.
6. Attend online workshops and events to et to know the community. Meet experts, ask questions and have discussions.

PEN meant purpose and protection for many across its 100 year history. Fill out this form so we can follow up on your request to join a PEN centre and connect with a local community. 

If your country is not currently represented, you may be eligible to join another.

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