Application

“Her Helm: Chesapeake Bay”

Calling all Chesapeake Bay creators! Are you a champion of women? Do you love the Bay? Would you like to see your work published?

The Her Helm project is seeking a select few writers, poets, artists, essayists, and others who would like to add to the project in celebrating women and maritime life. Your work could go into the "Her Helm: Chesapeake Bay" book, to be published this summer.

Some subjects we're looking to include (but are not limited to):

  • history and extra information about maritime women in the Chesapeake

  • Chesapeake maritime industries

  • recreational boating - power, sail, and clubs

  • pets

  • families

  • feminism

  • race

  • Bay ecology and environment

Some of the formats we're looking for:

  • essays

  • short articles

  • poetry

  • visual art

The writing and images should have either a female empowerment or a maritime tilt.

This license is required to be in included in the book.

In order to for the book to be available by Summer 2023, contributions must be submitted by the end of March 2023.

Please express your interest in contributing by filling out the following form.