Thank you for your submissions!
Atlanta’s Pagans are an active and dynamic bunch. Here at A Little Bird we’re excited to be sharing that activity with other local Pagans. We need your ideas to do it, though. Tell us what you’re doing. Tell us what you’re thinking. Tell us what you’re building. Help us share your ideas with Pagans in Atlanta and around the world!
Submission Guidelines
Thank you for writing for A Little Bird. We solicit your input in writing thoughtful, enduring, and personal articles of interest to Atlanta area Pagans and look forward to hearing your voices. Our intent is to give Atlanta Pagans a place to have their voices heard, share their thoughts and build a community. The following guidelines should help you prepare submissions for A Little Bird:
- Your essay should be ready for publication when you send it to us. A Little Bird does not require a professional level of writing, but we strive to provide a deep and strong voice for our local community. Toward the goal of quality communication, articles should be checked by the author for grammar, spelling, syntax and factual content. Our editors will review each submission and provide a few helpful hints for the author as needed, but the best place to start is with a clearly expressed author viewpoint. Final publication will depend on the approval of both the editor working on the submission and the author.
- All submissions should include:
- a title for the article or event;
- the author’s name, Craft name or pseudonym;
- the author’s email and phone number, for editorial use only (not published);
- a two or three sentence summary of submission; and
- the text of the submission.
- Essays and articles should relate to the Atlanta area Pagan
community. What relates to this community is up to you: the
community we serve. The current categories for A
Little Bird content include:
- Nest Articles
- A Little Bird would like to hear your perspective on upcoming and recent rituals, reviews of events you have attended, or any thoughtful and positive essay connected to our growing community. Articles should be 1000 to 5000 words: long enough to cover the topic but short enough to be interesting.
- Event Announcements
- A Little Bird would like to know what you are doing. Event descriptions should include the place, time, date and cost of the event. Include public contact information and a summary of the purpose of the event. Let us know if the event repeats regularly. Help us keep listings brief and factual. If the event, location or sponsor has a website then include that information for publication.
- News
- Help keep the community informed with informative, local, factual information about festival sites, changing laws, events with a Pagan focus or other newsworthy topics.
- Columns
- Local Pagans provide their perspective and paths in these first person topical essays appearing approximately two to three times per quarter.
- Letters to the Editor
- Share your thoughts and goals. We will publish select mails and respond to community input.
- Style guidelines for A Little
Bird include but are not limited to:
- Capitalize the words Witch, Wicca, Heathen and Pagan. Spell check your essay.
- Limit the use of abbreviations and contractions. The goal of A Little Bird is furthering communication. These writing habits lead to miscommunication, so avoid them unless absolutely necessary.
- All outside sources should be noted carefully and clearly.
Submit articles to submissions@a-little-bird.org. For questions beyond these basic guidelines, email the editors at editor@a-little-bird.org.
