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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!
”The Eleventh Hour” is the exploration of the things said and unsaid. It is the choice we make at the last moment or minute. It is despair. It is longing. It is adrenaline, do or die. It’s anticipation. It is “Will they or won’t they?” It is the last bit of will punching you towards that last bit of hope.
Send us your prose, poetry or art that captured the choices we make in the “The Eleventh Hour.”
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December 8th, 2023.
Overall Guidelines
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Please send all solicited and unsolicited submissions to editors@brownsugarlit.com. All submissions received elsewhere will be invalid.
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All materials must be original, unpublished content relating to or inspired by our issue's theme. We do not accept work previously published in other literary magazines. Upon submitting, please notify us if your work is being considered for other publishers/literary magazines.
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We accept multiple submissions, however, we only accept up to 5 submissions per person. Please submit each genre separately, but it can only total to 5 submissions.
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In your email, please include the following details:
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Your Name
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Title of Submission(s)
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Brief 1-2 line of how your submission connects to our theme
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Your pronouns
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Vibe Check! Are you a femme-identifying person of color?
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Important Notes
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Please allow us 1-2 weeks after we close for submissions for a response from us on your submission.
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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.
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We reserve the right to edit, and to pull from projects that we find no longer fitting during or after the editing process.
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We currently are unable to compensate our writers 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.