About Smart Healthy Women
Smart Healthy Women Magazine is an independent feminist publication. We've been online since 2013.
We started as a wellness magazine. Twelve years and 677 articles later, we're a feminist political publication — because the longer we wrote about women's lives, the harder it became to pretend that women's health, women's money, women's relationships, and women's wellbeing could be separated from the political and economic structures shaping all of them.
Wellness without politics is a coping strategy. We're interested in something more useful than that.
What we publish
The magazine has two formats. Our website carries the rolling editorial work — feature articles, analysis, essays, interviews, and reporting, published on an ongoing basis. We've also produced 56 themed digital issues — fully designed flip-magazine editions with their own editorial arc, contributor mastheads, and visual identity. The back catalogue is browsable here, and the issues span the full range of the magazine's evolution from its earliest wellness focus through to its current political register.
What we cover
Health, money, politics, relationships, work, family, and the structural conditions of women's lives. We publish reporting, analysis, essays, and interviews. We follow the questions where they lead, which is increasingly into uncomfortable territory: the rise of fascism in the West, the medical system's failure of women, the economic erosion of women's autonomy, the contested ground of reproductive rights, and the long histories — feminist, anthropological, political — that make sense of where we are now.
We also publish the things that nourish a life: nutrition, fitness, sex, parenting, style, money management. The full range of women's experience belongs here. We just don't pretend any part of it is apolitical.
Our editorial commitments
We pay attention to evidence. Our writing is sourced. When we make a claim, we cite where it comes from. When the evidence shifts, we revise.
We give credit. Contributor articles are unpaid, but every contributor receives full attribution and a do-follow link. Women's work deserves to be seen and credited.
We don't sand the edges. Some of what's happening to women in the world right now is genuinely bad, and writing that pretends otherwise isn't useful to anyone.
We respect the reader. No clickbait, no manipulative framing, no shortcuts. We use AI as a thinking and drafting tool the way writers have always used the tools of their time, but the arguments, the sources, the voice, and the editorial judgement are ours. The reader deserves to be treated as an adult who can handle a real argument.
Who's behind it
I'm Estelle Williams, the founder and editor. I started Smart Healthy Women in 2013 as a small online community of women in business, supporting each other's work and sharing what we were learning. The magazine launched the same year. Over the next twelve years, the publication grew, the contributor list grew, the audience grew, and — most importantly — the editorial voice grew.
I write under my first name across the magazine and on social. The voice you encounter here is mine, sharpened by the women who write alongside me.
The contributors
Smart Healthy Women has published 677 articles and 56 themed digital issues featuring the work of more than 300 women writers — health practitioners, financial professionals, academics, journalists, activists, coaches, and writers across a wide range of specialisms. If you're a woman writer with something serious to say and a body of work to back it up, we want to hear from you.
Where to find us
We're online at smarthealthywomen.com. Our active social presence is on Threads (@shwmag), where we publish ongoing commentary, share new pieces, and build community with women writers and readers in real time.
If you'd like to write for us, contact us, or comment, we can be contacted on [email protected].
— Estelle