From crsp at igc.org Tue Sep 9 16:53:14 2008 From: crsp at igc.org (Lois Arkin) Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2008 07:53:14 -0700 Subject: [Urban All List] Call for Articles, Communities #142: Festivals and Gatherings Message-ID: <48C68DDA.3080605@igc.org> Dear All, If any of you would like to consider writing for the "Ecovillage Living" column, please contact me. Or if you'd like to respond to this request for theme articles, please respond to Chris as indicated below. Love to all, Lois Hello, /Communities/ magazine is now seeking articles for issue #142, "*Festivals and Gatherings*." The issue will be out in March 2008. Please send your article idea to editor at ic.org by *Friday, September 26*, or sooner if possible. Your final article must reach us by *Friday, November 21*. 1. Theme articles: *Festivals and Gatherings * We're looking for personal stories about public festivals and annual or special events that reflect and help build community. We're especially interested in gatherings hosted by intentional communities, events in which intentional community members play significant roles, festivals hosted by nonprofit or other civic organizations, the feelings of community and authentic connection generated by festivals and gatherings, new groups which form out of these events, various forms of traveling community, gatherings of people who share specific common interests but do not live together full time, and traditional festivals and gatherings that strengthen ties of community. We'd like to hear how festivals and gatherings help people get a sense of what life in community would be like, and how this temporary experience of community affects and inspires people. We are /not/ looking for promotional pieces, but instead for real-life stories which share the joys and challenges, rewards and disappointments, encountered in gatherings of people seeking to cultivate community. [Please forward this email to anyone you think has a good story on this theme for /Communities/.] 2. We are also seeking articles about: - Creating community in your neighborhood; - Starting a new community; - Process and communication issues in community; and - Seeking community to join. Suggested submission length is from 300 to 2500 words. We invite submissions ranging from short vignettes to extensively-developed articles, and also invite suggestions of recommended resources and article leads. We're seeking articles written in a reader-friendly, popular-magazine style, rather than in an academic style. We ask contributors to share stories and experiences, not just ideas; write about challenges, not just successes; and describe specific situations that will help your story come alive for the reader. Before you start writing, please check http://communities.ic.org/submit.php or contact us for our full Writers' Guidelines--and let us know your article idea so that we can give feedback on how it may fit into /Communities/. Contact Chris Roth at editor at ic.org or 541-937-2567 ext. 116. If you don't want to write an article but want to submit photos, please check http://communities.ic.org/submit.php or contact Ginny Blades at layout at ic.org for our Photo Guidelines. I. WHAT "SUBMITTING AN ARTICLE" MEANS. We will promise to read your article, but we may respectfully decline it and not publish it, or save it and publish it in a future issue. We also reserve the right to edit, shorten, or revise your article. Most of the time we contact authors about this ahead of time and get their comments, corrections, etc. II. GETTING PERMISSION AHEAD OF TIME. Please send the article only when you have permission from anyone you need it from, such as fellow community members. It's difficult for us to get all set to run an article only to find that the author's fellow community members say No at the last minute. III. PUBLICATION RIGHTS. Once your article appears in /Communities/, we own first North American Publishing Rights. This means your article appears in /Communities/ the first time it appears in North America. In addition to appearing in /Communities/, your article may also appear on our website or in future compilations. You retain all other rights to it. If you'd like to use it elsewhere, you can, and we would appreciate your using an attribution line saying, "This article first appeared in /Communities: Life in Cooperative Culture/, (date); for further information on /Communities/: communities.ic.org ." IV. PHOTOS. If we publish your article, we want to accompany it with compelling images that illustrate your subject. You know your subject best, so we are appealing to you for images. If others in your community like taking pictures, they might already have great images to go with your article. If you would like to submit an article but cannot supply photos, that's fine; however, please give us plenty of advance notice so that if we use your article we can get an illustrator. Please check http://communities.ic.org/submit.php or email us for our full Photo Guidelines. We also appreciate an author photo to accompany your short (several-line) author bio. Thanks for your contributions! Chris Roth Editor, /Communities/ editor at ic.org -- Chris Roth Editor, Communities 81868 Lost Valley Lane Dexter, OR 97431 editor at ic.org 541-937-2567 ext. 116 communities.ic.org for Communities advertising, please contact John Stroup: ads at ic.org 573-468-8822 for photos and layout, please contact Ginny Blades: layout at ic.org -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... 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