CALLING

Writers, Artists, Poets, Photographers, Filmmakers, Audio Artists

A trail in Port Gamble Forest Heritage Park. photo by John F. Williams

• A tiny forest tucked into a city or urban neighborhood — how does it thrive?
• How does your favorite forest place change with the seasons?
• Deep dive into a square section of the forest floor, or look closely at a branch, stump, or tree bark; what’s going on ecologically?
• What makes a forest community that people can visit distinctive — old growth, a forest fringing a beach or wetland, etc.

We hope that those suggestions trigger your imagination…

POLICY ON ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE (AI)

At Salish Magazine, we are committed to providing authentic, insightful, and thoroughly researched content about the natural world. We believe in the power of human experience, expertise, and observation to bring the wonders of nature to our readers. In keeping with our mission, we have decided that Salish Magazine is not the right place for content generated by artificial intelligence (AI). Please submit only articles, poetry, imagery, video, and audio that you and/or your colleagues have created.

PROCEDURAL DETAILS

After receiving the proposals, the Managing Editor (ME) will identify any duplications, overlaps, or gaps in the ideas submitted. Then you will hear from the ME with ideas about your proposal. After receiving the first drafts, the ME will assign an editor to work with you to create the final draft.

The first draft will also allow us to see what additional illustrations might be necessary for text submissions, and we will issue a specific call for visuals if necessary.

Please see our Style Guide for details about the style we aspire toward:

https://salishmagazine.org/style-guide/

Below is a brief summary.

FORMAT AND STYLE

• Prose articles should be around 1,000 to 2,000 words.
• For poetry submissions we haven’t set a guideline for the number of words.
• Please provide text files for poems or articles as Microsoft Word (.docx),  Apple Pages (.pages), a simple text email, or generic text (.txt) file.
• If you are submitting imagery, please provide photographs/illustrations in high-resolution .jpg (at least 2048 pixels across). It would be best if the images contain some extra space around the subject so that we have some choices for cropping it to fit with the text layout. We like articles to be highly visual, and we usually can add photos if necessary.
• Videos, songs, photo essays, or other types of media are also welcome; ask us about formatting requirements. 
• We can send you a link to an online drive for uploading files if you have some that are too big to email.
  
• More details about the writing style, topic formulation, and geographic scope can be found in our online Style Guide For Authors.

Salish Magazine strives to tell stories related to what people can see, or see at least parts or traces of, preferably in public forests, waters, and beaches around our Salish Sea region. We hope that when our readers personally encounter those sights, the stories they have read in Salish Magazine will come to mind, enabling them to see their surroundings in a new context — one that expands their knowledge of our Salish Sea ecosystem.

Articles should be easy to read for people who don’t know much about the subject and be more fun than academic — written as if you have a big smile on your face and want to share your ideas with a bunch of fun people. But we also encourage you to include sources so that readers can have a reason to find the story credible, and they can find additional information if they are interested in learning more. Some of our articles have links in the flow of the story as well as a list of other references at the end. You can see examples in this article.:

High-flying Lichen

If you’re more of a technical writer, we can help edit your work for our target audience. We welcome visual illustrations, and we have access to photographers and artists who can provide additional illustrations.

You can read more about our style recommendations at:
https://salishmagazine.org/style-guide/

BIO

We publish a short bio & photo of content contributors. Here are our bio guidelines:

For our readers, would you please submit a bio of 200-300 words that references your experiences relevant to your contribution. It should be written in the third person. We would be happy to include a photograph of you, if you desire.

We would also be happy to include a relevant link to your web page, blog, or other reference that will help people find out more about you. We do not want to include advertisements.

RIGHTS AND USE

You retain all rights to your work. By submitting, you grant the SEA-Media a non-exclusive license to publish your work in Salish Magazine and (with credit) include your piece, or excerpts, in our outreach for Salish Magazine.

PAYMENT

We don’t provide payment for submissions, but we are experimenting with small honoraria to show our appreciation.

PAST ISSUES

Please look at past issues (at: salishmagazine.org) to familiarize yourself with the kinds of articles that we publish.

CONTACT

Please email submissions@salishmagazine.org to submit a proposal or if you have questions.

Thank you for being part of Salish Magazine,

John F. Williams, Publisher