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is currently being designed. We also
secured funding worth over £8,000 in
support-in-kind for our launch, as well
as our printing costs being covered by
Oxford University’s Access department.
The magazine is now set to launch in
October 2018 at The Oxford Foundry,
I also craved spaces and we plan to distribute over 300
where I was allowed copies to universities across the UK.
To any readers who would like to
to be completely set up something similar, I’d offer this
expressive without piece of encouragement as quoted
from Suzanne Collier: ‘the situation
my work having to [regarding diversity] is not shifting
mention race and quickly [in the publishing industry], but
enough to have applications from seven oppression… it will change in the next generation of
other black women also studying at people coming into publishing’.
Oxford. Since opening submissions We are that generation, and we need
in January, we’ve received over 100, as many platforms as possible, because
from places as far as Barbados and the there is so much more black creativity
Bahamas. After sifting through them, to unearth.
we narrowed down enough content For web submissions, please email:
to fill an 88-page magazine, which onyxeditor@gmail.com.

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