Mission | Publisher/Editor-in-Chief | Staff | Submissions | Distribution | Advertising
Mission
Positive Teens® dares to be a different kind of teen magazine. Positive Teens uses its pages to accentuate the positive in the talents, lives, skills and voices of the youth of today. Positive Teens encourages young adults from 12 to 21 to take an interest in issues directly or indirectly affecting their schools and community, their future and the world. Positive Teens magazine is inclusive of all youth, male and female, of all ethnic, racial and religious groups, of all sexual orientations and of all physical abilities.
Publisher/Editor-in-Chief
Susan Manning saw the culmination of a dream come true when in 1997 she established SATCH Publishing.
Her intention in creating the company was to produce and publish reading material in the form of books and magazines that would be educational and inspiring to youth. Susan wanted to promote diversity and literacy in all its many forms through publications that would have teens and young adults as the major contributors. Susan wanted to provide a forum where youth would feel comfortable enough to communicate their thoughts and demonstrate their strengths and weaknesses. She decided the best way to achieve this ambitious endeavor was to begin with a magazine — hence Positive Teens magazine was born.
Susan has for many years supported youth programs through her volunteer and advocacy work as a mentor, a speaker, and a champion for teen literacy. She was the first program coordinator of ScholarshipBuilder/Boston. This was a national educational program funded by Merrill Lynch who partnered with chapters of the National Urban League to administer the activities of the various ScholarshipBuilder programs.
For 7 years, she chaired the Teen Literacy Outreach Program of the Boston Chapter of the Women’s National Book Association (WNBA/Boston).
Offices held:
- Vice President: Women’s National Book Association/Boston — 9/2003 to 6/2004
- Board member: Genuine Voices, Inc. a music literacy program — 2002 to 2006
- Board Member: Women’s National Book Association/Boston — 2000 to 2006
- Advisory Board Member: Cooperative Artists Institute, Boston — 2004 to 2006
Staff
A volunteer editorial staff assists the Editor-in-Chief in assuring that each issue of Positive Teens magazine and on-line information has a minimum of errors in grammar and structure. A staff of part time workers and/or volunteers, high school and college interns assist with distribution, general office duties, and at conferences and workshops. They are also encouraged to contribute written or visual art for publication.
Submissions
PT’s tag line, “accentuating the positive in today’s teens,” means that our mission is to expose “real” young people to each other by publishing their real stories about real issues in their lives. PT is a magazine for a diverse audience. Our readers and contributors primarily range in age from 12 to 21 years old. They are both males and females of different ethnicities and intellect, and they live in many areas of the world. We accept articles and poetry that are written in their voices, as well as publish original artwork created by that age group. We also publish interviews of young people’s real life stories.
Submissions Guidelines
Distribution
Positive Teens magazine is no
long accepting subscriptions. However individual copies of
Positive Teens (if in stock) can be purchased for $4.50
per issue from the publisher. (See our Order
Form.)
Advertising
SATCH Publishing seeks advertisers for Positive Teens whose products and/or services reflect the diversity of our contributors and readers. Specific advertising topics of interest would be products and/or services that offer youth positive choices — academically, economically, mentally, and health-wise — as well as those that entertain and inspire.
At the Publisher’s sole discretion, the Publisher may reject any advertisement found not to be in keeping with the theme of Positive Teens, a positive lifestyle for youth, and/or reject any advertisement that would damage the integrity, name, or reputation of the magazine, the Publisher, or SATCH Publishing.
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