FORESTS
UN International Year of Forests
Submissions due May 16, 2011
Everyone loves a tree, or so the saying goes. But Alternatives wants to delve deep into the foliage to discover how our forests are doing, both here and around the world. To celebrate the UN International Year of Forests, we invite you to submit ideas for articles that take a critical look at the state of our forests, methods being employed to protect and enhance them, as well as related stories that will intrigue and engage our readers. We are interested in knowing about urban as well as rural forests, temperate and tropical ones. We encourage our authors to look to the future, addressing how we can do a better job so that our forests will be healthier in two generations’ time than they are today.
Please follow the submission guidelines and checklist that below.
Alternatives combines the learned rigour of an academic journal with the breezy style of a magazine. We aim to publish the best environmental writing in the country — writing that is engaging, thought-provoking and insightful.
Before responding to this call for submissions, please read several back issues of the magazine so that you understand the nature of our publication. We also suggest you go through the detailed submission procedures on our website to understand the types and lengths of articles we accept.
Queries should explain, in LESS THAN 300 words, the content and scope of your article, and should convey your intended approach, tone and style. Please include a list of people you will interview, potential images or sources for images and the number of words you propose to write. We would also like to receive a very short bio. And if you have not written for Alternatives before, please include other examples of your writing. Articles range from about 500 to 2000 words in length.
Keep in mind that our lead time is several months. Articles should not be so time-bound that they will seem dated once published.
Alternatives has a limited budget of 10 cents per word for several articles. This stipend is available to professional and amateur writers and students only. Please indicate your interest in this funding in your submission.
Send submissions electronically in word format (not pdf) to Nicola Ross,
Editor-in-Chief (editor @ alternativesjournal.ca) by May 16, 2011.
*Submission Check List*
PLEASE FOLLOW THIS TEMPLATE EXACTLY WHEN PREPARING YOUR SUBMISSION:
1. Name
2. Phone, address, email, skype
3. Do you request a stipend?
4. Length of article
5. One paragraph bio
6. 300-word-long description of your article
7. List of people you will interview
8. Ideas for images to accompany your article
9. Sample of your writing for those who have not yet written for
Alternatives.
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