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Brown Sugar is a 17+ womanist* (feminist of color) literary magazine. We are for femme-identifying persons of color. We are for misrepresented and unrepresented multicultural races, sexualities, religions, and identities.

 

We accept various forms of content that capture the BIPOC experience—the womanist and intersectional perspective. Give us all of your art, poetry, fiction, and more! See guidelines below!
 

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Call for Art Submissions!

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Brown Sugar Literary Magazine is curating works for a gallery & open mic fundraiser that will take place on August 28th, 2026 in Brooklyn, NY. We are inviting women and nonbinary artists of color to display and price their own work for the gallery.

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We’re looking for visual art pieces that throb with urgency and flirt with chaos. Pieces that spark, sting, confess, and combust. Creativity that keep us alive and raw. Explores high energy in all its shades—the heat of sexual freedom, the tenderness of vulnerability, the red-hot pulse of rage, the dizzying rise of a life lived at full voltage.

 

Send us your art. If it sparks your pulse,

it belongs here.

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The deadline to submit is July 26, 2026.

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Please see submission guidelines below!

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Overall Guidelines

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  • In your email, please include the following details:

    • SUBJECT: Pulse Art Submission

    • Your Name​

    • Title of Submission(s)

    • Brief 1-2 line of how your submission connects to our theme 

    • Your pronouns

    • Vibe Check! Are you a woman of color, or nonbinary person of color?  

    • Please let us know how you found out about the event!

    • Attached submission in one of the following forms: JPEG, PDF, PNG 

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  • We will email the creators of the accepted submissions with further details!

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Important Notes

  • Please allow us 2-4 weeks after we close for submissions for a response from us on your submission.

  • The submitter has rights to their work throughout the entire process with Brown Sugar. However, we do request credits for original publishing. We do not accept work accepted or published elsewhere. 

  • We reserve the right to edit, and to pull from projects that we find no longer fitting during or after the editing process. 

  • We currently are unable to compensate our creatives due to funding. Brown Sugar runs on volunteers and the free will of our editors. Any donations for printing purposes would be helpful and greatly appreciated. Contributors will receive a free PDF copy of the issue or zine they are featured in.

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