WHAT WE PUBLISH

We publish nonfiction in the form of blog posts, articles, profiles, features, reviews and essays up to 500 words. Most content is written by our staff of volunteers. A small portion of our content is written by guest contributors. Please continue reading to learn how to submit your ideas.

Longer literary nonfiction works, as well as fiction and poetry, will no longer be published in our regular online edition beginning in December 2010, but will appear in a special issue. The New Southerner Literary Edition will feature contest winners and finalists, and will be published online and in print each December. Click here for Contest Submissions Guidelines.

OUR CONTENT AND FOCUS

• Our content is written for a general audience.
• We do not publish scholarly articles or deeply political work.
• Our goal is to provide readers inspiration and instruction for living the good life.
  
  • By that, we mean a simpler lifestyle centered on family, friends, home and neighborhood—a lifestyle of true freedom from the rat-race cycle of earn and spend. Among the principles we aim to teach are responsible consumption, ways for coping with commercial culture, and respect for and a deeper understanding of the natural world and our rightful place within it.
    
  • We do not preach environmentalism alone, but focus instead on:
    
    • the interconnectedness of all living organisms;
      
    • the economical and environmental benefits of recycling, reducing and reusing;
      
    • the practicality of supporting local economies and independent businesses;
      
    • conservation as a matter of faith and higher consciousness;
      
    • and agrarianism and domestic work as means of self-sufficiency.

WHAT WE PAY

For work that appears in the online edition, we pay up to $15, depending on the availability of funds and our need for the material. We cover terms individually with writers prior to publication.

HOW TO SUBMIT YOUR WORK OR IDEAS

If you would like to submit a previously unpublished article, feature, profile, recipe column, interview or other nonfiction material up to 500 words, you must query us first. Click here to go to the Query Form.

To submit previously unpublished poetry up to 100 lines and prose up to 5,000 words, click here for Contest Submissions Guidelines.