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General Submission Guidelines

for
CUUPS TwinCities Pagan News 
 Public Pagan Events and Local Pagan News in Minnesota

&
pAGAN iNSTITUTE rEPORT
News, Views, Reviews, and Tools to Restore the Old Religion

To submit materials for Pagan Institute Report

Pagan Institute Report publishes articles, essays, poems, art and reviews; we prefer that you submit brief items here.  For longer pieces or art, please contact us for email instructions.

When you submit material, you are donating non-exclusive permission for publication to Twin Cities Pagan News and Pagan Institute Report, and archives on the Pagan Institute website, www.paganinstitute.org.  YOU RETAIN ALL OTHER RIGHTS.

We WILL give you a byline as you specify, with an email or weblink. Since the editor isn't being paid, neither will you. But think of the

  GLORY!!

Editing

All submissions may be edited for length or clarity; if you edit for length, we won't have to.  We DO accept essays in any length, provided they are not wordy.

The editor is Dr. Christa Landon, whose opinions are often only her own, even when they are right. ;-). She reserves the right to edit or reject submissions.  The Pagan Institute will not knowingly provide links to hate speech or pornography or sites which carry such links. If you find any, please contact the editor IMMEDIATELY.   

Authorship

When we publish material, we want to give correct attribution to the author or artist. Please include how you want to be named and whether or not you want us to publish a weblink to a URL or your email address.

All signed articles represent the opinions of their authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of The Pagan Institute, CUUPS-TwinCities, the Unitarian Universalist Association, CUUPS, Inc.or the Goddess. 

Please DO NOT submit materials written by others unless they are in public domain.  We also want to give correct authorship. If you are not sure, and got it from the internet, we will need the URL, so we can get permission to use it.

If any materials are misattributed, please inform the editor immediately.

Rights and Permissions:

Whenever possible we will attribute authorship, and will not knowingly publish copyrighted materials without permission. If you can help us determine the authorship of materials, we will be delighted to print it, and make recompense by running an item advertising the author's works in print and available for purchase. 

Submission of material assigns non-exclusive rights of publication to Pagan Institute, Inc. and CUUPS-TwinCities, Inc. 

Copyrights of all submitted materials revert to authors. Please contact them directly for permission to re-use.

To submit an article

 Contact the Editor.

In the "subject" write "Article Submission."

  • We are especially interested in reflective essays, Pagan prayers, items on raising Pagan kids, accounts of Pagan involvement in social justice, charity, and interfaith activities.

  • We do not publish CHAIN LETTERS...not even if the Goddess appears with golden tablets and is going to take you if you don't build a temple out of a million petitions folded into origami legos.

  • Because of spambombs, we now use webmail. We most readily run brief items (100-500 words); however, if your item is too long for webmail or if it includes art, please write here with your email address and phone number and we'll send you an email address.

  • We can't pay; if you submit material you are giving us non-exclusive rights to print it. This means you can give or sell non-exclusive rights to someone else. 

  • By submitting an article, you are identifying it as your creation. If it is not, please include a means of contacting the author (such as a URL); FYI, press releases are always in the common domain, as is anything written by someone who died over 75 years ago. 

  • We don't guarantee placement.

To Submit Reviews

We Pagans are readers! If you have a favorite book,be it one that helped you on your path, or, one that you simply enjoyed, send us a review.

BOOK REVIEW Submissions for Pagan Institute Report:

  • Include author, publisher, year of publication and list price.

  • Tell in 50-500 words why you liked the book and what it does well.

  • We will publish reviews for selected books for adults and for children.

  • We also welcome reviews of music, films, and other media.

  • To submit a book review, go to Editor. In the subject line write "Book Review Submission."
To Submit Art

We welcome cartoons, line art, and other graphics. If you can scan them at high resolution, please send them in .jpeg, .psp,  .gif, or .bmp format.   We prefer to receive them at 300 dpi resolution. We never open an attachment without a very descriptive note describing the contents. (We also test against current anti-virus.)

Please DO NOT send art that isn't yours to share. If you find something you THINK is copyright free, but you found it on the web, please include the URL.  

If you need to send us hard copy, PLEASE DO NOT SEND ORIGINALS.

Our snail mail address is  Pagan Institute, PO Box 6809, Minneapolis, Mn 55406.

Please allow at least 1 week for transfer of mail to the editor.

To have your book, CD, or other publication reviewed

Send a copy to Pagan Institute, PO Box 6809, Minneapolis, MN 55406

Twin Cities Pagan News

To submit events held in MN, IA, or SD

Twin Cities Pagan News covers nonprofit public Pagan events in Minnesota as a free service to the Paganistan community.  But we can't do it without help!  If your group's event isn't here, please do your part.

  • Submissions without essential facts risk being left out since I still don't "have eternity at my command."

    • Who is sponsoring event; 

    • What the event is; 

    • When it will happen (day, date, hour); 

    • Where (including street number and directions); if you include bus#s, we'll run them! NOTE: For reasons of liability, we do NOT run notices of events held in private homes.

    • Price of event; if this isn't shown we will publicize it as FREE!

    • Info on handicap accessibility (wheelchair accessible? signing?); 

    • Provision for children if any; 

    • URL and/or phone number and/or email addy for publication.  If you do not include a phone number or email addy for publication, we still need one or another marked "private," in case there is an error.
       
  • We can run announcements for up to 90 days. Our deadline is the 25th of the prior month, but we can't guarantee placement, so please send your info in ASAP.

  • Free announcements are brief and published in a standardized, simple format; we use Dreamweaver, and it's easier when all special formatting is stripped. PLEASE SEND YOUR ANNOUNCEMENTS IN PLAIN TEXT, with no ALL CAPS.

  • If you want to use special formatting, art, or very lengthy text, or if you are charging $10 or more, we need you to help defray the cost of producing this 'zine. Nonprofits get a video page for $10/mo., barter accepted.

  • Preference (length, location, featuring) is given for non-commercial, wheelchair accessible, and child-friendly programs and programs with a social justice, environmental, or scholarly component. We appreciate your reciprocating by informing your Pagan friends of Pagan Institute publications. See BANNER EXCHANGE.

  • If we don't know you, we reserve the right to ask questions, since I'm also short of omniscience and the crystal ball cracked. If you don't include a web-site, please include your mission-statement or a brief statement about your group's principle ideas and purpose. We may inquire about the organization's policies regarding racism and inclusivity. We will not knowingly promote illegal activities. We ask LOTS of questions when major fundraising is involved, for the protection of the community.

  • To defray expenses, we also provide PAID advertising for profit-making companies and services of special interest to our community. We are now offering a special introductory rate: business card sized ads on our "front page" for only $10/mo. prepaid. Larger ads are also available. Contact us to create an account.


 To SUBMIT AN  EVENT,
send a webmail to the Editor. In the "subject" write "Event Submission."
As we are sending YOUR announcement to our 2500+ Minnesota subscribers, we ask you to forward our our URL, Twin Cities Pagan News to your MN area Pagan mailing list. As more of us collaborate, the Pagan movement will grow stronger.

Updated August 17, 2008
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