General Guidelines
1) Send all submissions to idnomadic@gmail.com
2) I might not choose your work. It might not be what I'm looking for, or someone else might have submitted something I like better. It happens.
3) If I do choose your work, I'm probably going to change it. It may be as simple as cleaning up some grammar or spelling errors, but I may take some serious creative license to make it the right size, or feel, or whatever. It's a thing editors do. Sometimes, it doesn't make any sense to anyone but the editor. On the plus side, I'm pretty busy and fairly lazy. So, I tend to avoid this kind of time intensive work if I can help it.
4) You will be credited for your work. Include the following information at the top of your submission;
Name (yours or a pen name)
Age, Grade, and/or Profession
Location (as vague as you like, but no more specific than your city)
Website (A single sentence inviting readers to visit your blog, business site, favorite charity, etc. Be sure to include the address, so I can link the name)
5) By submitting your work for concideration, you grant me First Rights. That means this work has not been published anywhere else before. This will be the first place it is published. I have the right to publish this item online, in a periodical, even in an anthology. You still retain the right to sell reprint rights, or to reprint this work yourself. If you sell it or reprint it, you owe me nothing. I cannot sell your work, but I can reprint it. If I reprint your work, I owe you nothing - but I will attempt to notify you of how your work is being used. To facilitate this process, include the following information at the bottom of your submission;
Full Legal Name
Mailing Address
Email Address
6) No one (myself included) is making any money, yet. There are some very good reasons to believe that will be changing in the near future. To incorrige you to submit work in the mean time, future pay scales will include a bonus for folks that I've published before.
Submission Format
Send all submissions to;
Department (Digital Art, Learning, News, Non-Fiction, or Fiction)
Month and Theme (ex. Feburay 2014, Africa)
Suggested Level (I may change this, so no pressure)
Name (yours of a pen name)
Age, Grade, and/or Profession
Location (as vague as you like, but no more specific than city)
Website (a single sentence inviting readers to visit your blog, business site, favorite charity, etc. Be sure to include the address, so I can linke the name)
Submission (following the listed guidelines. Clean up the grammar and spelling to the best of your ability. I'll make some corrections, but if it's too much work I'll just send it back to you anyway)
Full Legal Name
Mailing Address
Email Address
Month News Digital Art Learning Non-Fiction Fiction Theme
February 02/10/16 02/10/16 02/10/16 02/10/16 02/10/16 Love/Heart/Valentine
March 03/01/16 03/01/16 03/01/16 03/01/16 03/01/16 Spring is in the Air
April 03/15/16 03/15/16 03/15/16 03/15/16 03/15/16 Rainforest
May 04/15/16 04/15/16 04/01/16 04/01/16 04/01/16 Mothers/Motherhood
June 05/15/16 05/15/16 04/15/16 04/15/16 04/15/16 Fathers/Fatherhood
July 06/15/16 06/15/16 05/01/16 05/01/16 05/01/16 Summer Heat
August 07/15/16 07/15/16 06/01/16 06/01/16 06/01/16 Ocean Life
September 08/15/16 08/15/16 07/01/16 07/01/16 07/01/16 Autumn
October 09/15/16 09/15/16 08/01/16 08/01/16 08/01/16 Halloween Traditions
November 10/15/16 10/15/16 09/01/16 09/01/16 09/01/16 Colonial America
December 11/15/16 11/15/16 10/01/16 10/01/16 10/01/16 Winter
2016 Themes & Deadlines
Department Guidelines
Digital Art
Original photographs, original digital art, and photographs of other orginal art pieces. These will mostly be used as background art or to illustrate stories and articles. A few may be featured for outstanding merit. Anyone sending obscene/gory art will be block/banned/shunned without warning. Keep it family friendly.
Adventure Learning
Links to free themed material is welcome. Credit for these will be online, but not in the newsletters.
Articles should be between 1000 - 2000 words. Instructional articles should include graphics or photographs to illustrate the process. Each graphic or photo counts as 150 words.
News
Articles should be no more than 1500 words. Accompanying photos are prefered but not required. No more than 5 photos, please. Generally, only 1-3 will be chosen to accompany the article.
Non-Fiction
Articles should be between 1000 - 2000 words. Accompanying photos are prefered but not required. No more than 5 photos, please. Generally, only 1-3 will be chosen to accompany the article.
Fiction
Poetry, Short Stories, Satire, etc. While there is no minimum or maximum length, keep in mind that works of more than 1600 words will likely be edited to a shorter length. Works of more than 2000 words will either be shortened, or broken into a series to be printed over multiple months.