Blog Carnival - first call for submissions

Check out the new item on my sidebar. It is a place for you to submit to the next Blog Carnival against Child Abuse. Or you can click here to submit. Next month is being hosted by yours truly (yeah me!).

If you want to see what a Blog Carnival looks like, check out the Feb 15th post here at Suvivors can Thrive. The submission deadline for March's issue is March 12th. Publication will be on March 14th. The theme is dealing with Spring and the issues of re-birth and new beginnings, including awakenings, revelations and starting over

So what is a Blog Carnival and how does it work?
Like traditional fair-type carnivals, this one travels around. It is hosted each month by a different blogger on their blog website. There are lots of Carnival types and the purpose of this one is to raise awareness on all types of child abuse--physical, sexual, verbal, emotional, spiritual.

You can nominate one of your own child abuse awareness posts or one of another blogger whose work you like. (don't worry, if someone nominates you, I'll check with you first before publishing)

Here's exactly how you submit to our Carnival Against Child Abuse, in four easy steps:

1. Decide if you want to participate (or one of your aware blogger friends should) in a blog carnival to raise awareness about child abuse. Please overwhelm me with responses!!! It's a problem I'd love to have.
2. Choose a post you already have from your blog, or write a new one and post it to your blog as usual. It should be able to go under one of the following six categories: Survivor Stories, Poetry, In The News, Healing & Therapy, Aftermath, or Advocacy & Awareness.
3. Go to the Blog Carnival website and use the submission form to nominate yourself or someone whose blog you admire. Fill in all required fields. Select one of the six child abuse awareness categories from the drop-down menu. Leave any words of wisdom, remarks or advocacy statements you'd like to have considered for publication on the day of our carnival.
4. Visit my blog here (or link to me from the Blog Carnival site) on March 14th to see the submitted posts and remarks, then link to the posts and comment on them so we all support each other.

If you have never submitted before, please do so now. If you need help, just leave me a comment and I'll be glad to try to help you out.

I'd love to see some submissions by supporters of survivors. Even if you've never been a direct victim of child abuse, you can be an indirect victim - maybe you are the son, daughter, mother, father, wife, husband of a victim. Tell us how it has affected you.

Many thanks to the Blog Carnival against Child Abuse founder, Marj at Survivors Can Thrive.