Writer's Guidelines
We are currently looking for original work for our publication. The following
are our submission guidelines. Please read them before submitting your work.
General: Submissions should be uploaded using our Submissions
Form.
Deadlines:
Samhain Issue - October 1
Yule - November 21
Imbolc - January 5
Ostara - February 20
Beltane - April 3
Litha - May 23
Lammas - July 4
Mabon - August 31
Editorial Policies: Our newsletter is a Pagan publication
dedicated to exploring alternative religions and nature-based spirituality.
We seek material that will appeal to a diverse, intelligent, well-read audience.
Popular topics include the seasons and their respective festivals/holy days,
mythology as it applies to modern or ancient Paganism, history of Pagan religions
and cultures, Pagan events, ritual and invocational material, Pagan deities,
personal experiences with the Divine, theory/science of magic, helpful hints,
familiars and animal spirits, plants and plant spirits, astronomy and astrology
as they relate to ritual or spellcasting, community outreach and volunteer efforts
by Pagans, parenting/family life, and Pagan worldviews.
We reserve the right to edit manuscripts for clarity and content. However,
we will endeavor at all times to maintain the integrity of your message and
will consult you on changes. We may ask you to verify facts or conclusions;
we may make suggestions for improvements. Remember, editors help writers to
express themselves more clearly. You may write "Do Not Edit" in the
form comments and we will respect that, but it greatly reduces your chances
of publication. Never send us (or any other publisher) your only copy of anything.
Send original artwork only if requested.
Payment: This is a not-for-profit publication run exclusively
by volunteers. We have no sources of income; therefore, we cannot pay for material.
Articles: short articles range from 150 to 2,000 words. Feature
articles range from 2,000 to 3,500 words. Query first before submitting feature-length
articles.
Artwork: We accept cartoons, both strip and single panel styles.
You may submit up to six pieces of original artwork at the same time in GIF
or JPEG formats. Style and theme are up to you, but bear in mind our basic publication
premise. Your best bets are portraits of Divine or other Pagan figures, animals
and plants, symbols, altars, natural scenes, Pagan people, and seasonal motifs.
We can match these with the widest variety of articles, columns, and other contributions.
You can also query to find out what we're in need of right now.
We need regular artists to illustrate columns and articles, and we would like
to include regular cartoonists in our humor section. If you are interested in
either of these options, please send us some samples of your work, previous
publication credits, and a query letter.
Columns: We would like to run columns of varying length in
each issue, from short ones around 500 words to major ones up to 3,500. Query
us with one or more column proposals. If we accept, we will decide with you
on an appropriate length for your column, and each installment should fit that
length. In general we expect a higher level of skill, experience, and scholarship
in columns than we do in unsolicited material.
Fiction: We are currently looking for pagan fiction. In the
top right corner, place the word "Fiction" and give the approximate
word count.
Photographs: See "Artwork."
Poetry: You may submit up to five pieces of poetry at a time.
Shorter poems generally work better than lengthy ones.
Reviews: We are currently seeking book and product reviews.
In the top right corner, place the words "Book Review or "Product
Review" and give the approximate word count.
Ritual and Invocational Material: Descriptions of successful
or unsuccessful rituals in which you took part, or scripts for rituals which
our readers might like to try, may range from 250 to 1,000 words. Prose invocations
may be up to 150 words. Query before sending anything longer, but we may allow
more space for exceptional material. We may also consider prose invocations
or rituals with some of the lines written in languages other than English; please
query first. In particular, make sure that your descriptions do justice to the
original! As exciting as ritual is, putting it into words often proves difficult
if not impossible. We welcome accounts from all Pagan or related belief systems.
Show us the special sparkle in your religion.
We do not accept: work containing attacks on other persons
or religions, botched or inadequate research, plagiarism, material submitted
with no regard to our guidelines, errors in fact, personal experience or fabrication
passed off as historical fact.
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