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PanGaia Contributor's Guidelines
Editor: Anne Newkirk Niven PanGaia is a magazine dedicated to the Pagan/Wiccan/Gaian community Our readership includes Gaians, Pagans, Scientific Pantheists, Quakers, Christians, atheists, and others; but most (90%) of our readers self-identify as being part of the Pagan movement. PanGaia accepts contributions of essays, factual articles, fiction, poetry, rituals, interviews, artwork, and photographs relevant to our subject matter and goals. Please include your preferred contact information and a brief bio with all submissions. At minimum, we need your pen name and email address or phone number; preferably your check-cashing name, pen name if you use one, postal address, Website (if you have one), phone number, and a brief bio. Put it on the manuscript itself, not just the email message to which the file is attached. We cannot accept submissions without a way to reach you! See below for details about anonymity. General Parameters: PanGaia is dedicated to helping explore our spiritual, emotional, and practical lives in a way that respects all persons, creatures, and the Earth while offering immediate application to our everyday lives. Folks of all paths may send their work, but our focus falls on material expressing an Earth-centered spirituality. We refuse to accept material that demeans persons or practices; we do not publish personal attacks, gossip, or diatribes. Check out a previous issue of our magazine or visit our Website to see what kind of material we like to buy. All submissions must be the original work of the contributor. If you collaborate with other folks, we need to hear from all parties concerned or else be assured that you have the legal authority to assign rights to the work.This also means that we require citations for factual submissions – if you quote someone, mention a specific theory or argument, etc. then you must give its origin. Please double-check your sources; when writing about historical examples, always refer back to ancestral traditions and original documents, not to modern literature or coven texts alone. See our stylesheet for examples of how to format footnotes and so forth. We do not accept simultaneous submissions within the Pagan/Gaian market. We are aware that you have worked hard on your writing, it is personal and special to you, and contains your unique voice. Nonetheless, we usually find it necessary to edit for length, clarity, and grammar – sometimes at the last minute before publication. Therefore, we cannot guarantee that your article will appear precisely as you submitted it. If you do not want your material edited in any way, please do not submit to us PanGaia maintains contact with a number of regular contributors, but happily accepts freelance submissions. The easiest way to get your foot in the door is by writing letters to the editor, debate essays, reviews, or short articles; you can work up from there, so don’t feel that you have to begin with a huge feature piece. On the other hand, if you have a longer piece, go ahead and send it in; there is no prerequisite for writing for us. Don’t be shy if you do not consider yourself a “professional” writer or artist. Compensation: PanGaia is proud to be a paying market. We offer a standard semi-pro range of about $.02 to $.04 per word for all written works except letters to the editor, as well as a contributor’s copy of the issue in which your work. We buy the following rights: 1st worldwide periodical (magazine) rights plus NON-EXCLUSIVE rights to publish your article on the web or in a future PanGaia compilation book. If you cannot agree to these rights please contact the editor directly.. We have a minimum payment of $15 per piece, so short works such as poems and reviews typically get a flat fee of $15. Payment for artwork, photography, and other visual works is negotiated individually. Other exchanges, including advertising trade, may be available. Format: Submit all written material in electronic format. Our first choice is Microsoft Word file attachments emailed directly to the Editor at: meditor@pangaia.. Other acceptable file attachment formats include text files and commonly used word processing programs; you may also paste the text of your manuscript directly into an email message. Use a plain, legible font or typeface large enough to read easily. Yes, we still accept paper submissions; please don’t send hand-written manuscripts unless it is the only possible format for you. Hardcopy manuscripts must be accompanied by an SASE in order to be acknowledged and a SASE with sufficient postage for return of your manuscript if that is your desire. Topics: Leadership, organization, techniques, and infrastructure in the Pagan/Gaian community; ecology, gardening, herbalism; scientific mysticism, magic, shamanism, liturgy, and ritual; activism, social issues, and political concerns; personal development, prayer, and insight experiences; spiritual fiction, scholarly research, history, anthropology, and mimetic engineering; legends, folklore, mythology, God and Goddess lore; recipes; health, interpersonal relations, and sexuality; celebrations of Nature, love, birth, death and other transitions; humor; interviews/profiles of individuals, groups, or sacred sites. There are some things we always love to see because we don’t get enough of them: anything that includes an innovative and effective solution to a ecological/theological problem; humor, particularly if it pokes fun at religion or government in a lighthearted rather than snide way; and serious scholarship which is delightful instead of dry. We’d like to see more high-quality fiction and poetry too. Then there’s a nebulous category of stuff that defies description but which immediately grabs our attention, particularly if it seems likely to have the same effect on people browsing the newsstands. Email the editor at meditor@pangaia.com for a list of upcoming themes. Fiction: Exercise your imagination. Show us the kind of world you’d like to live in, or the kind that scares you silly. Stories may deal with any aspect of nature, sustainable technology, magic, Earth-centered spirituality, etc. They may take place in consensus reality, or they may add speculative elements. For a good example of realistic fiction we like, see Patricia Snodgrass’ “The Karma of Wasps” in issue #42; for speculative fiction, see M. Turville Heitz’s “Garden of Souls” in issue #43. We are especially interested in stories which depict science solving problems, people using their own talents to make a difference, what it means to live as a Gaian/Pagan in today’s world, hopeful but not gooey futures, potential drawbacks of shortsighted actions, or a healthy respect for diversity. Please, no “fantasy” or “Dungeons and Dragons” material about ancient matriarchal warriors or large-breasted sorceresses; if it is appropriate for Fantasy and Science Fiction, send it there; PanGaia’s forte is magic in the modern world. (We’ve been known to make exceptions to this rule, but not often!) Retellings of myths or fairy tales are also unlikely to succeed. The story you send us needs to link closely to our magazine’s overall field of interest. Poetry: We accept poetry in a wide range of forms and styles. Make sure you send us material relevant to our scope; we get a lot of fluffy Christian, feminist, and random literary poems that we can’t use. Submit 3-5 poems at a time, up to about 100 lines per poem. Most of the poems we publish fall into the 5-25 line range. Reviews: PanGaia ONLY prints reviews of books, music, movies, videos, and other relevant products that we can recommend. (If you know of a Pagan/Gaian book or product that really sucks, please approach our title newWitch instead.) Reviews typically range from 500-1000 words. We accept unsolicited reviews, and a copy of our review guidelines is available upon request; we also send out a great quantity of material for review to a selected group of reviewers. (Contact the editor if you’d like to be considered for this group.) If you are a writer, musician, artist, producer, publisher, etc. and would like us to review your product(s), then you may request our review copy submission guidelines. Reprints: We very rarely accept reprints, and the few we print are usually solicited by the magazine staff. We recommend against submitting unsolicited reprints. Absolutely do not send us reprints of material you have previously published on the Internet. We want features that break new ground, that go deeper or farther than what other Pagan markets are publishing. Names and Anonymity: Please submit all material with your legal name and mailing address included with the submission; we cannot accept materials from persons whom we cannot reliably contact. If you wish to use a Craft name or pseudonym, please note this prominently in your submission itself (not just an attached email). We strive mightily to respect your privacy, but mistakes are possible; we simply cannot guarantee that your piece will be published under a requested pseudonym, so if your anonymity is a matter of life and death, please don’t submit to our title.
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