motherlore magazine

on care, mothering, matrescence & mother nature: a writing magazine

Terms of Publication

Thanks for your interest in Motherlore Magazine. You do not have to be a mother to submit to Motherlore, but your piece does need to be connected to mothering/motherhood/caregiving (more info below). There is no fee for submitting to Motherlore. Please note, Motherlore is a low budget project that I curate and spend many hours on, to share mother’s and carer’s stories and encourage mothers and carers to write. I keep costs as low as possible so that the issues are accessible as many readers have said that the project is important and healing. Motherlore is released in both print and digitally. I would need to drastically raise prices and make it less accessible if I were to provide complimentary print copies to contributors. From issue three onwards I intend to provide a complimentary PDF to contributors. Thanks for your understanding.

Theme

Now accepting submissions for issue three on the theme BODY. Ideas might include your relationship to your body or your dependent’s; exhaustion, physical burnout; body as corpora, as corporation, as a part of the community, part of a whole; embodiment; the bodily aspects of mothering/caregiving, or of conception or birth, including trauma, loss, miscarriage; menstruation/the moon, hormones, sex; body dysmorphia, ableism, genes in relation to mothering/caring; illnesses; being in charge of keeping another body alive; bodily changes; bodies of water…

Deadline Sept 15th.

• Email one file, in .doc or .docx format, containing up to five pieces (articles, poetry, prose, etc.) with clear titles and/or page breaks to: motherloremagazine@gmail.com

• Please include a brief author bio (roughly 1–4 sentences) with separate website/social links.

General Guidelines

i. Motherlore only publishes writing, i.e., we do not accept artwork submissions.
ii. The themes for each issue act as a guide and are open to interpretation. 
iii. Copyright remains yours. If you send us something that has been published before please inform us about where and when so that we can take this into consideration.
iv. Your connection to motherhood and caregiving is personal. This is a gathering of various records and voices of motherhood and mothering; of caring and being cared for; of mourning and loss; of trying to conceive; of infertility; of the mothering of siblings, of parents, of oneself; of foster care or fostering, adoption or surrogacy, abortion or miscarriage; of one’s own mothers or grandmothers; of all those caring, nurturing, and growing life on this earth, alongside mother nature.

Content Guidelines

Our focus is creative writing, but we are absolutely open to the possibility of publishing all kinds of writing, including non-fiction/articles, as we acknowledge that your written creative output as a mother or carer may take different and/or experimental forms.

Please keep prose to 1,500 words or under and poetry to around 100 lines (including blank lines between verses). However, work that slightly exceeds these limits will still be considered.