Theme

Set to release in Spring 2024, the theme of our inaugural publication is Reclamation.

We explore reclamation of the Mother through the emergence of wildness and rebellion in our health, children, spaces, rituals, and traditions. Together with beauty and tension, we unravel mainstream narratives and tell stories of liberation and creativity as emanating life forces.

We seek writings, interviews, art, practices, recipes, tutorials, music, and film that recognize the grounding causality of nature’s power to create and destroy – as represented in the cycles of birth, death, and regeneration that are innate in The Mother, as in us.  

Join us under the rose.

Topics Include (but not limited to): 

• Holding space for rebellion in our children

• Radical reclamation of family wellness

• Rituals and practices to reclaim the artistry of motherhood

• Liberatory materialism – a reverence for the natural material process during acts of creation

• Reclamation of ancestral roots – tracing our way back to The Mother

• Respecting Nature’s desires – the role of the wolf, so-called invasive species, etc.

• Recreating/Reinvigorating the maternal gift economy

We Welcome:

• Writing – invocations, poetry, songs, prose, articles, essays

• Interview or conversation transcribed into written format

• Årt – photography, illustrations, paintings, mixed media, graphic art, collage

• Ritual/Ceremony

• Recipes/Craft tutorials 

• Experiential film – to feature on socials, website, or digital magazine

• Recorded music – to feature on socials, website, or digital magazine
  
  

Submission Guidelines:

• Submit up to three original pieces between May 15-30, 2023

• Written submissions should be a maximum of four single-spaced pages, font size 12; docx or pdf formats

• Art Limit – five files per submission piece, 300 DPI; jpg, png, or tiff formats

• If total files are over 500 MB, reach out to press@subrosa.earth for further instruction

• We do not accept submissions created by artificial intelligence

Contributor Reciprocity:

• In the spirit of activating the maternal gift economy, a portion of proceeds will be shared in-kind among contributors. Contributors will also receive both a physical and digital copy of the publication.