Submissions wanted (pro-life stories) | 10-25 cents per word

COMPANY/PUBLICATION: CELEBRATE LIFE 

We love to share your personal pro-life stories. If you have one, please review, our submission guidelines below. We pay between $.10 and $.25 per word, depending on the amount of research and editing necessary. Please send submissions to clmag@all.org

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

After more than three decades, Celebrate Life Magazine continues to be the pro-life movement’s premier publication. Our mission is to inspire, encourage, and educate pro-life activists.

Celebrate Life Magazine is faith-based, and features human-interest stories, news, action items, information, and advice on a wide range of matters concerning the sanctity of life and human personhood. Each issue features a variety of articles, all of which must be in harmony with the teachings of the Catholic Church.

Celebrate Life Magazine offers writers a national venue for their work, and we are pleased to consider your article for publication. We purchase first rights to original material, including book reviews. As a general rule, we do not accept reprints, poetry, songs, music, art, or works of fiction.

THEMES

• Abortion
• Adoption
• Building a Culture of Life
• Chastity
• Contraception and sterilization
• Elder care and respect for the dignity of the elderly
• Stem cell research or therapy—moral and immoral approaches
• Euthanasia
• Eugenics
• Exceptions in abortion laws (i.e., for rape, incest, life of the mother, gross fetal deformity, etc.)—why we must oppose them
• Human cloning
• Human personhood and the personhood movement
• Infertility—moral and immoral approaches
• Marriage, as it relates to other topics on this list
• Miscarriage and stillbirth
• False definitions of death
• Organ/tissue donation—moral and immoral approaches
• Natural family planning
• Parenting in accordance with pro-life/pro-chastity values
• Population control and population decline
• Pro-life activists and heroes
• Pro-life/anti-life activities and legislation/initiatives
• Sex education
• Special-needs children/parenting/adoption
• Special-needs/disabled/chronically ill adults
• Unplanned pregnancy
• Vaccines made from aborted babies or human embryonic materials; vaccines for sexually transmitted diseases (such as Gardasil)

EXAMPLES OF POTENTIAL ARTICLES:

• Interviews with prominent pro-life activists
• Current laws and their effect on pro-lifers
• Interviews with birth mothers, adoptive mothers, and people who were adopted as children
• Interviews with rape or incest victims who didn’t abort their babies (emphasis on the fact that we cannot allow exceptions in our defense of life, and that abortion—a traumatic procedure—does not relieve but only exacerbates the initial trauma of the rape or incest)
• How to start a pro-life activity or group in your community or church

SUBMISSION GUIDELINES

We prefer that you submit articles to Celebrate Life Magazine via e-mail. Please attach the article to your e-mail as a Microsoft Word document and note time-sensitive articles (referring to current legislation/news or holiday-oriented) in the subject line. If necessary, you may paste the article directly into the body of your e-mail.

We will accept submissions via the postal service ONLY if an e-mail address or fax number can be provided for future communication. Mail to: Celebrate Life Magazine, PO Box 6170, Falmouth, VA 22403. Please follow the formatting guidelines below and type or print it on clean white paper. Additionally, for postal submissions, number all pages and include author’s name on each page.

PREFERRED FORMATTING FOR ALL SUBMISSIONS:

• 12-point Times New Roman font, double-spaced, with one-inch margins. At the top of the first page, include the following:
• article title
• author’s name
• address and daytime phone number
• e-mail address and/or fax number
• date
• approximate word count

Limit article length to 1,800 words, including any sidebars, unless instructed otherwise by the Celebrate Life Magazine editorial staff.

Current-events articles, holiday articles, and articles with appropriate photos or artwork get top priority in our processing procedure.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

Questions / submissions: clmag@all.org 

Website: https://clmagazine.org