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Parents and guardians are encouraged to help children prepare their work for submission. You will certainly want to check children's work for spelling and grammatical errors. At the same time, there is a clear line between proof-reading and actually doing children's work for them. Submitting work that an adult has done and attempting to pass it off as the work of a child is heavily frowned upon. Because heavy editing of children's work is generally recognizable, we strongly encourage parents and teachers to refrain from this as it will most certainly result in the submission being rejected.

Our vision for Anansesem is to highlight Caribbean children's work as the meat of the magazine, so to speak. We want artwork and writing by children to be front and center. We know Caribbean children can write and express themselves. It is up to parents, teachers, guardians and other adults to organize younger children's writing (or art) into submission format and email it in. Perhaps your child has written an essay at school that received top marks. Or perhaps your teenager likes to draw all over the margins of his or her textbooks. These are expressions of children's creativity that we must not take for granted. We definitely want to pour over (and perhaps publish) your children's work! We have a very gentle policy when it comes to children's submissions, so you needn't be concerned that your child will feel rejected. In most cases, we will give suggestions as to how children's work can be made better, with the goal of eventually publishing it.