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Submitting an Article to the Magazine: Requirements and Regulations By Sherry Antonetti Submissions will be reviewed only for 400- to 600-word features. It's best to familiarize yourself with the tone and content our magazine before you query us. (Back issues will likely be available at your local library, but we prefer that you go down to the newsstand and purchase at least six, plus a subscription.) The most successful queries or manuscripts are those that are timely, appropriately researched, engagingly written, freshly angled, and tailored to our readers in particular. In short, your piece must be creative, original, and tightly written, while documenting that nothing you say is something that has been said before. Queries should be typed, and when possible, should have clips of previously published articles attached. We don't want to break any new ground by allowing some rookie into the business. In fact, if we don't know who you are already, don't waste your time. If you must send us a submission, please include an SASE to receive a reply. Please allow two to three months for a response, due to the large volume of unsolicited queries we receive. Also, we're lazy and weren't really in a reading mood until yesterday. We have those summertime blahs and would rather be drinking margaritas and sunning ourselves than examining your poor pitiful offerings of prose. We do not currently accept: any reprints of articles that were published elsewhere or works written about, for or by children, or those about small cute animals, disasters, rescues or first kisses. We studiously avoid any pieces that discuss or postulate theories about God, religion or the price of gold or the future of the free and/or un-free world. Diet fads, new methods of organization, tales of divorce and rebirth and of having children with heart wrenching learning disabilities that overcame the system are very passé. Please don't send us anything that smacks of an alternative lifestyle, method of healing, or organic method of shopping on the Internet. We want nothing that hints at grit, truth, bravery, determination, failure or success. We also do not do sports stories, mysteries, erotica or romance. We never print poetry and find clever pieces that reveal wit about marriage or home buying tiresome and trite. Economics and history are also prohibited. This magazine refrains from publishing pieces that are told from the male, female, animal, vegetable or mineral point of view for fear of causing offense amongst those readers who are not male, female, animal, vegetable or mineral. In addition, please never use any one word in your article more than once; this prevents tedious repetition in prose and streamlines our editing process. Submissions in categories other than those prohibited above will not receive responses. We'll just put a label over the SASE and use it to pay our bills while you pay the postage, and thank you for your kind submission. Sherry Antonetti writes freelance for the Catholic Standard. She also writes short humor pieces and spends most of her time raising her seven children. |
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