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Author Guidelines

Submission Guidelines

Scholarly papers may not exceed 10,000 words and should include an abstract of no more than 150 words, references and tables (if any), following APA style (6th edition) as closely as possible. References should be as complete as possible: include the author’s name, book or article title, translator or editor (if applicable), city of publication, name of publisher, date, and page numbers.

Fiction and nonfiction may not exceed 4000 words and should include a very brief statement of the author’s intended message (50 – 100 words).  Poetry submissions are limited to 3 poems per author, saved to a single file and separated by page breaks.

All material should be written in clear, grammatical, and fluent English. We will consider submissions by authors for whom English is not a primary language, but they must be checked carefully by a reader who is fluent in English before they are sent to us.

All manuscripts should be submitted as Word documents using 12 point Times New Roman font.  All art work should be submitted in high resolution JPEG format.

Include a separate Word document with the title of the manuscript or art work, author(s)’ names, qualifications, and contact information (postal and email addresses, phone, fax, and website), and a brief biography (1-2 paragraphs) of each author.

Send submissions as email attachments to journal@orenda-arts.org :  Word documents for written work and JPEGS for art work.

If your submission is accepted, you will be contacted by one of our editors to discuss our publishing procedures, including suggested editing or other changes.

Four Winds Journal retains the right to use an article in all substantially complete versions of a single issue of our journal. We also request the right to use the piece in the promotion of Four Winds Journal, and to authorize single-copy reproductions for academic purposes. All other rights are retained by the author.

Authors are not paid for their submissions.  However the Journal has a wide reach through both social media and conventional advertising, which will greatly increase authors’ exposure.

 

 

Submission Preparation Checklist

As part of the submission process, authors are required to check off their submission's compliance with all of the following items, and submissions may be returned to authors that do not adhere to these guidelines.

  1. The manuscript or artwork may have been previously published, however authors must acquire and submit permission in writing for re-publication along with their submission.
  2. The submission file is in OpenOffice, Microsoft Word, RTF, or document file format.
  3. Where available, URLs for the references have been provided.
  4. The text is single-spaced; uses a 12-point font; employs italics, rather than underlining (except with URL addresses); and all illustrations, figures, and tables are placed within the text at the appropriate points, rather than at the end.
  5. The text adheres to the stylistic and bibliographic requirements outlined in the Author Guidelines, which is found in About the Journal.
 

Copyright Notice

Four Winds Journal retains the right to use an article in all substantially complete versions of a single issue of our journal. We also request the right to use the piece in the promotion of Four Winds Journal, and to authorize single-copy reproductions for academic purposes. All other rights are retained by the author.

 

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