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Seeking poetry, fiction, creative prose and art on theme “Ages/Stages” through the lens of motherhood. Regular Submissions ($3) are open until 7/15/23. (Need-based scholarships available; please see guidelines). NOTE: Early Bird submissions are now closed (as of 4/28) as we…

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MER Best of the Net Nominations Poetry June 14, 22 (Summer Girls) Terri Linton, “Boogie Down Girls”  March 13, 22 (Release) Jessica Cuello, “Dear Mother (Silence was my pride)” N.F. Kimball “The Burial” December 14, 21 (Ukrainian Voices) Halyna…

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RaShell R. Smith-Spears A Writer Speaks of Lineage My foremothers were magic. Their nimble fingers squeezed syntax into cauldrons of rhythm and rolled juju across pages that glared with our erasure; they poured images into white spaces defined by…

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