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Did you know that you can be a writer, artist, or poet for Stories Under the Sun? Submit your stories, sketches, paintings, book reviews, personal commentaries, poems, and more by clicking the button below, and your composition may appear in a future issue. But first, read our Style Guide down below to learn what kinds of submissions we accept, how it should be formatted, and a few other details.
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Stories Under the Sun Style Guide for Submissions:
Genres:
All of the following genres and more are accepted:
- Poetry: Haikus, limericks, metered poetry, freestyle poetry
- Fiction: Short stories (see section on length below), comic strips
- Non-fiction: Reviews, reports, recipes (of your own creation), news articles, sports articles, descriptive articles, travel recommendations, philosophical treatises, blogs, biographies, interviews, sewing patterns
- Visual Art: Illustrations to written articles, sketches, paintings, drawings, photography, sculptures (please submit a photo)
Content:
Since Stories Under the Sun is a journal for all ages that is read by people of all ages, articles should not contain:
- Excessively graphic, dark, or inappropriate material
- Material that obviously goes against Biblical teaching (especially for non-fiction articles)
Length (Written Submissions):
- All articles must be original and complete. Please do not plagiarize!
- All written submissions must be 20,000 words or less, and submissions written in prose must be at least 100 words. If your submission is significantly longer than 1,500 words, it will be published chapter-by-chapter, with one chapter in each issue consecutively.
Basic Grammar Guidelines (Written Submissions):
- Italicize book, album, and film titles.
- Put song titles and essay or article titles in quotation marks (punctuation except for question and exclamation marks goes inside the quotation marks).
- There should be only one space between the period of one sentence and the first letter of the next.
- If you quote from another source, include proper credit.
- Spell out numerals 1-9. If a sentence begins with a number, write it out. If one numeral in a sentence is written out, all the others in the sentence must also be written out.
- Decades should be written as “the 1970s” or “the ‘70s”, for example.
- When writing dialogue, begin a new paragraph whenever you change speakers.
- Use the Oxford rule: in a list of three or more items, put a comma before the last “and”: e. g. apples, oranges, and bananas.
- Do not put a space before or after an ellipsis or a dash.
- Mind usual American spelling and grammar rules.
Submitting:
- Please use the link at the top of our submissions page to access our submission form.