Call For Submissions - Lone Star Ma #11 - Deadline Extended

Yeesh, mamas!  Before we went online, I used to get more submissions than I politely knew what to do with, but now that Lone Star Ma:  The Magazine of Progressive Texas Parenting And Children's Issues has come back and is online, I am not getting enough submissions!  Texas mamas (and other mamas) need a publication about the issues that affect our children and I need your articles to make it work, please.  The deadline for Issue #11 has been extended to September 30th.  I am posting the Call below - please heed it!

Call For Submissions - Lone Star Ma #11 Calling for submissions for Issue #11 of Lone Star Ma:  The Magazine of Progressive Texas Parenting And Children's Issues!!!   For this issue, we are looking for feature articles on the effects of lax enforcement of environmental standards on children in Texas.  We are looking for articles on how the Right-Wing War on Women affects mothers and children.  Specific other topics we might be interested in:  social services funding in Texas, education in Texas, urban farming for busy families, the Texas State Board of Education, libraries, sex education, breastfeeding, safely avoiding insect-borne tropical diseases.  We do accept articles on other themes as well if they strike our fancy, so send whatever you think we should consider and we will ponder it.  Things are bad for the women and children of Texas these days, folks.  We need to spread the word and save our kids' futures from the likes of those who only care about the wealthy and the powerful.  Not on our backs.  Not on our children's backs.  Not now.  Not ever.  We will stop them. Please see the general submission information below for guidelines and please consider submitting to our various departments.  Lone Star Ma wants poetry.  Lone Star Ma wants mama fiction.  Lone Star Ma wants brilliant articles. What have you got?  The deadline for submissions has been extended to September 30th.  Raise your voices.  xo, Lone Star Ma Submissions Lone Star Ma is a reader-written magazine covering topics of progressive Texas parenting and children's issues.  I totally cannot pay you for your submissions, but if I like 'em, I'll print 'em.  We need to get our voices out there.  To submit an article or poem to Lone Star Ma, please send it in the body of an e-mail to submissions(at)lonestarma(dot)com.  E-mails with attachments will not be opened. Please include working contact info., including a mailing address, phone number and e-mail address, if possible.  I may print a submitted article in a later issue than you had in mind, so if you don't want it printed after a certain date, please say so.  Published work may be archived on the website unless you ask to have it removed. Please include with your submission a bio-line, such as "Radical Rae is the mother of 4-year-old Joey and works as a social worker in Houston."  Thanks. In addition to features, mamafiction and poetry, Lone Star Ma accepts submissions for the following regular departments: Letters We Love them!! Please write!!!  Attn:  Letters. Longhorn Lactation If you have lactation news, information or action alerts, please submit them, attn:  Longhorn Lactation. Vegetarian Vittles is your place for recipes and resources for vegetarian families. If you have vegetarian recipes, news, alerts or stories to share with fellow parents, please submit them, attn:  Vegetarian Vittles.  (Recipes with nuts ain't welcome in these parts.)  Please send recipes attn:  Vegetarian Vittles. Yellow Rose Reviews Is where you review exceptional children's toys, books, magazines, music and educational products that you might not hear about in more mainstream venues.  Please send reviews attn: Yellow Rose Reviews. Educatin' The Young 'Uns If you have education news, information or action alerts, please submit them, attn:  Educatin' The Young 'Uns.