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Raising Mothers

www.raisingmothers.com

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A digital literary platform centering the parenting and personal narratives of the global majority.

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Publication

  • Accepts simultaneous submissions

    What's that?

    When you can submit your work to multiple magazines at the same time

  • Accepts previously published

    What's that?

    When the magazine wants to publish your previously published work. Requirements vary

  • Nominates for prizes

    From the editors

    Best Of The Net, Pushcart

  • Active on social media

  • Available in print

  • Provides contributor copies

  • Has examples online

  • Offers expedited response

  • Runs themed calls

How to submit

  • Processs

    Form

  • Cover letter

    Short Bio and link to website (100 words max) are required.

  • Eligibility

    Creators With Disabilities, LGBTQ+, Location, Nonbinary, Other, Women
    Raising Mothers publishes work that centers parenthood from either a parent, or child-centered perspective from BIPOC people exclusively; women, femmes, disabled, nonbinary and LGBTQIA+ parents.

  • Formatting

    Work should be submitted in 12 pt font (no fancy fonts, please), double spaced and uploaded as a doc. or docx. file.

  • Author's rights

    By submitting to Raising Mothers, you’re granting first electronic rights exclusive for the first 6 months upon publication. You grant the right to excerpt portions of accepted work online in order to promote you, your work, and Raising Mothers. You’re also agreeing that if your work is republished digitally or in print, you will credit Raising Mothers as first publication, along with a direct link to the site where applicable. Raising Mothers reserves the right to post your work in the archives in perpetuity. All other rights remain the property of the author. Selected pieces might be requested for future anthologies. You reserve the right to decline our offer.

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About

We celebrate both the parenting and personal narratives of the Global Majority through publications, performances, workshops, and online, at www.raisingmothers.com. Since 2015, we have been rewriting the definition of parenting by centering what has been neglected: our voices, examining and preserv...

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    Editor Sherisa de Groot avatar

    Sherisa de Groot

    Editor-in-Chief

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    Monique Quintana

    Editor, Flash Friday

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    Ojus Patel

    Editor, Books on Books

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    Dara Mathis

    Editor, Shop Talk

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    Ain Heath Drew

    Editor, Fiction and Books on Books

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    Danielle Jernigan

    Editor, Nonfiction

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    Tracey Michae’l Lewis-Giggetts

    Editor, Radical Joy