Where our stories speak. Our art breathes. Our truths matter.
What Is Sauti Lounge?
Sauti Lounge is a creative and healing platform for storytellers and artists often pushed to the margins, including those living with disabilities or systemic exclusion. It was created to nurture expression, visibility, and collective memory in a world that often silences or distorts our voices.
Through writing, visual art, photography, performance, and digital storytelling, Sauti Lounge makes space for what mainstream platforms overlook: our inner worlds, resilience, and imagination.
Who Can Submit?
We welcome submissions from:
• Storytellers with lived experience of exclusion
• Artists in exile, asylum, or displacement
• Individuals using creativity for healing and advocacy
Whether you’re a professional artist or someone expressing themselves for the first time, Sauti Lounge belongs to you too.
What Can You Submit?
• Poetry or short stories
• Personal essays or reflections
• Visual art or photography
• Digital art or comics
• Spoken word, music, or audio stories
• Zines or memory pieces
All mediums are welcome if they are respectful, original, and rooted in your truth.
Why We Created This Space
Too often, creatives at the margins are left out of cultural archives, exhibitions, and storytelling spaces. Sauti Lounge exists to change that. We document our history, celebrate our imagination, and affirm that our experiences are art.
How to Submit
• Use the online form or email us securely.
• You may submit under your name or anonymously.
• Submissions are reviewed with care and confidentiality.
• Selected works will be featured on our website and across our platforms, with your permission.
diverseempowerment@gmail.com
Community Guidelines
• No hate speech, discrimination, or graphic content that harms others.
• We hold space gently, please share responsibly.
• All submissions are protected by creative credit, consent, and choice.