Finding Lost Voices: Do You Have A Lost Voice Your Want to Bring To Our Attention?

A weekly email that brings back the voices of those who have been forgotten or misremembered

Good news, readers! The Sitting Room, my favorite library in the world, will be publishing a collection of writing about “women who have been left too long in the shadows.” All forms of writing are accepted. Your contribution just needs to be no more than two pages long.

See the call for work below! And please contribute!

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Sitting Room Library Anthology 2026

Painter Hilma af Klint, fiction writer Lucia Berlin, park ranger Betty Reid Soskin, librarian Belle da Costa Greene, activist and author Zitkála-Šá. These are all women who shaped the world, yet only recently have they been recognized for their achievements. These remarkable women—and many others—still are not widely known beyond specific circles.

Let’s shine a spotlight on women who have been left in the shadows for too long. In the 2026 Sitting Room Library Anthology, we invite you to celebrate an overlooked heroine. Women who, through literature, art, or advocacy, paved the way for all of us. All contributions are welcome, including poetry, prose, and visual arts* that can introduce our community of readers to inspiring figures.

Contributions should be no more than two pages, 12-point font, Times New Roman. No headers or footers. Please send your work to sittingroomlibrary@gmail.com by April 15, 2026, with the subject line: “2026 Sitting Room Anthology Contribution.” Contributions may also be sent to the Sitting Room Library at P.O. Box 838, Penngrove, CA 94951.

NOTE: This year’s anthology will be published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International license, and an online version will be available for people to download and read for free from the Sitting Room Library website. If you would like to be included in the print edition but want to opt out of the online publication, please note this in your email.

*If including visuals that are not original, please avoid using images that are currently under copyright.