BLK Voices Magazine is a quarterly aiming to amplify the collective Black experience through art, culture and community.
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BLK Voices is an entity of Speak to My Soul LLC.
We know we’ve been gone for a while and we have to do a little more work filling up our magazine with amazing contributors. Nevertheless, we are extending our submission deadline to welcome more contributors to this issue. Please share with your BIPOC creative friends/family! To submit head to www.BLKvoicesmagazine.com or click the link in our bio!
Today is the last day to submit your stories, poetry, artwork or photography to BLK Voices Magazine for our Evolve issue! Head to www.blkvoicesmagazine.com to submit or the link in our bio! Tag your favorite BIPOC creative!
Your art/photography can be featured on our next cover! The process is simple! Just submit your artwork/photography on our website and our team will review it to be featured on the cover. If it isn’t chosen for a cover feature, it can be reviewed to be in the magazine. Our cover artist/photographer gets a page in the back of the magazine with their bio and more information on how they can be contacted for commission opportunities. Tag a BIPOC artist/photographer you’d like to see on the cover of our Evolve issue.
BLK Voices Magazine is accepting submissions for our Evolve issue releasing Sept 2nd. If you’re just tuning in, we are a quarterly magazine that aims to amplify the collective Black experience through art, culture and community. Tag your Black creative friends for a chance to get their work published in our magazine!
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Submission deadline: 7/20/22
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Click the link in our bio to submit or head to www.blkvoicesmagazine.com
Our website is now LIVE! Learn more about BLK Voices Magazine and the people behind it. We’ve added some past articles to our page to give newcomers an idea of our content and we have some new offerings in our shop 🥰 Click the link in our bio to check out www.blkvoicesmagazine.com
We are BACK and better than ever! Thank you all for your support as we worked hard to bring BLK Voices magazine back. Thank you to our sponsors and for believing in our mission and financially supporting the continuation of this work.
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We are now accepting contributors for our next issue releasing in September. The issue theme is EVOLVE. Contributors can submit their work at www.blkvoicesmagazine.com
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We are working on launching the full website very soon. However, you are able to go to the site to submit as a contributor and sign up for our email list.
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We are welcoming businesses that are interested in advertising their company in BLK Voices Magazine. Head to our website and click on our MEDIA KIT for more information.
We are working to bring you our next issue in September 🎉! While doing the work, we’ve been nominated for Magazine of the Year for the Central Pennsylvania Black and Latino Excellence Awards! We are so humbled to be seen by our community. It motivates us to continue to publish our stories rewriting our narrative one issue at a time! To vote, click the link in our bio or head to www.aacal.org/blea
Big Announcement! 🥰 Thank you all for your patience and kindness. We took a pause to figure out how we can move forward and bring you all the beautiful magazine you all adore without compromising our values and quality!
Catch us at the Kwanzaa Village Black Business Expo this weekend! If you pre-order today, you can select pick-up during checkout and pick-up your package at the Speak to My Soul table.
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Our pre-order packages are the perfect gift as they are wrapped in a black silk ribbon with a beautiful accent added to each magazine package. 🖤
We have been receiving overwhelming support and many letters from those that are currently incarcerated at state correctional facilities. We DO ship to prisons and rehabilitation centers. If you would like to gift your loved one a magazine, please send us at note during checkout. With processing at the security centers, it takes about 4-5 weeks for them to receive their magazine. We ensure any content that may be flagged is blacked out prior to shipping.
Our readers in the aforementioned facilities have said our magazine provides them hope and inspiration and we have also published articles sent in by some of our readers as well. If they are interested in submitting an article, poem or art, send us an email so our team can review their work for future issues.
Peace and love. 🖤
It is a beautiful day to bring some JOY to your home this holiday! Pre-orders are now LIVE. Order today to have your copy by the holiday. We have also included a holiday bundle with our new BLK Voices crewneck! Check out the Speak to My Soul store for amazing holiday gifts that feel good and affirm the excellence in you!
Orders can be placed at the link in our bio or at www.speak2mysoul.com/shop
Cover art courtesy of Shelby Elaine Wormley ( )
It is with heavy hearts we say rest in power to Allen Butler who transitioned yesterday. Allen and his wife, Lenore welcomed us into their home to tell us their story and let us into their trials and triumphs so we could share with you. Allen was a father figure to many, an amazing husband, hard worker and a genuine, kind hearted person. It has been a blessing to experience his kindness. We send our thoughts and prayers to those that love him most.
As a team, on this we ask that you send a gift of love to Lenore and her family during this time. They have been parents to so many in the community, it is our time to give back. You can send donations via CashApp to $Lonni6646 .
“There is no one greater than you and there is no one less than you” -Shonda N. McFadden
In our last issue of BLK Voices Magazine, Concrete Rose, we learned about the work Shonda N. Fadden is doing to provide a home for young girls 12-18 years old. Her vision to help young girls displaced in the foster care system is the hope and mission we need to see in this world.
Make sure to follow us to stay connected for more incredible stories of the amazing work like Shonda is doing for the community.
When we block out negativity from people that don’t see your true potential, we are able to fully step into our light. It is a powerful feat to be able to transform the doubt of others into a success story just like Lenore Johnson and Allen Butler. From our last issue, Concrete Garden, we were able to learn about the inspirational story of the way this couple reclaimed their power, against all odds and kept trying with little to no help until they were successful.
Drop some of your personal selfies and photos of Black JOY! We will feature some of them in our next issue 🥰
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We are welcoming short stories, personal essays, poems, visual art and photography for this issue! We’ve put together some prompts to get your juices flowing. 😊 Check out our contributor guidelines on our website for more information on the magazine and what we are looking for in a submission! Tag a friend that you’d like to see in our next issue!
We love our coffee the way we love our businesses!
Have you checked out the in the Concrete Garden issue?
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Tag a Black entrepreneur and tell them they’re doing an excellent job! We need those reminders! Happy Tuesday!
Limited BLK Voices merchandise coming soon. Keep your notifications on for the reveal and release date announcements!
If you’re local (Lancaster, PA) choose the pick-up option during checkout to skip shipping and pick up your magazine at Move It Studio! (Location is only available for pick-up for online orders.)
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Your order will be available on Market Days (Tuesday, Friday and Saturday, 9am-2pm)
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We will be adding more drop off locations soon! If you’d like to see BLK Voices Magazine in your city, tell us where and what business you see us in so we can connect!
We have a community of amazing contributors that have shared such beautiful content with you all in our latest issue, Concrete Garden. Thank you all for another beautiful edition of BLK Voices Magazine!
Follow and support the amazing creatives that submitted for this issue. Publication date: 9/20/21
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We are excited to share our cover art for our next issue, Concrete Garden! The featured art piece by .ese.art inspired the designer of the cover to try something new and we LOVE IT!
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Concrete Garden will be available for pre-order tomorrow (9/1) ! Our official release is September 20th!
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You can subscribe to our website at the link in our bio to receive the notification as soon as the link goes live! Do not miss out on those pre-order packages! They look so nice, most people buy the magazine TWICE 🥰
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Do you know what your purpose is in this season? Share with us in the comments!
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Send your submissions directly to our email [email protected]
See our requirements on our website at https://www.speak2mysoul.com/submissionguidelines
As we review our submissions for the Concrete Garden issue, we celebrate and thank all of our past contributors for their amazing work! We wouldn’t be where we are without you!
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Did you see/read any content you loved in the Passion+Purpose issue? Share in our comments!
As we review our submissions for Concrete Garden issue, we celebrate and thank all of our past contributors for their amazing work! We wouldn’t be where we are without you!
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Did you see/read any content you loved in the Impact issue? Share in our comments!
As we review our submissions for Concrete Garden’s issue, we celebrate and thank all of our past contributors for their amazing work! We wouldn’t be where we are without you!
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Did you see/read any content you loved in the Legacy issue? Share in our comments!
When you create and put something out in the world, are you intentional about doing so with care? What values do you uphold when you create?
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Learn more about in our our Passion+Purpose issue! He is also our front cover artist! Pick up the last issue before it’s too late! Link in our bio.
Thank you to everyone that had the courage to share their stories and art.
We understand how difficult it is
to express ourselves in a world that tries to silence us.
We support you.
We love you.
We appreciate you.
We will carefully review each submission and we will contact everyone within the next two weeks.
Peace
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hair grease.
Tupac called himself the Rose that grew from concrete, are you? Have you nourished the concrete garden when all others doubted the possibility of any growth? Send us your stories, poems, art and photography to be featured in our Concrete Garden issue.
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Big Announcement! 🥰 Thank you all for your patience and kindness. We took a pause to figure out how we can move forward and bring you all the beautiful magazine you all adore without compromising our values and quality!
It is with heavy hearts we say rest in power to Allen Butler who transitioned yesterday. Allen and his wife, Lenore welcomed us into their home to tell us their story and let us into their trials and triumphs so we could share with you. Allen was a father figure to many, an amazing husband, hard worker and a genuine, kind hearted person. It has been a blessing to experience his kindness. We send our thoughts and prayers to those that love him most. As a team, on this #GivingTuesday we ask that you send a gift of love to Lenore and her family during this time. They have been parents to so many in the community, it is our time to give back. You can send donations via CashApp to $Lonni6646 .
If you’re local (Lancaster, PA) choose the pick-up option during checkout to skip shipping and pick up your magazine at Move It Studio! (Location is only available for pick-up for online orders.) • • • Your order will be available on Market Days (Tuesday, Friday and Saturday, 9am-2pm) • • • We will be adding more drop off locations soon! If you’d like to see BLK Voices Magazine in your city, tell us where and what business you see us in so we can connect!
We are humbled and honored for @floacist to share her journey with us in this issue. Her interview was the inspiration behind adding “purpose” to the Passion theme. The pages of her story are so heavy with wisdom and insight. From her words, we are inspired to go out into the world to do the work we are called to do and we are excited to see where her assignment leads her in the near future. • • • This issue will be on sale tomorrow! Our subscribers had access to special pre-orders for this issue. Subscribe at the link in our bio so you don’t miss the next pre-order exclusive! #BlackVoices #BlkVoicesMagazine #UK #floacist #FLOPoet #FloVortex #poetsofinstagram
BLK Voices Feature: Shaniece Cole and Shanae Cole , producers for Access Hollywood and My Dream Lottery Home, sat with us to talk about chasing their dreams and the lessons they’ve learned in pursuit of them. Thank you for being so transparent with us. We know this story is sure to inspire! • • • 6.25.21
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