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Do you have an overflowing desire to write? Or draw? Or photograph the world around you? Do you find delight in jars full of doll hands and creaking staircases? Then we want you to write a story or draw a picture for us. Please read the guidelines carefully as submissions that do not fit the requirements will not be accepted and that would be a shame. All work submitted MUST be original work by the writer or artist submitting it. When you submit your work you give Underneath The Juniper Tree the royalty-free right to display it on our site and to put it in our online issue without any *compensation.
Do you have an overflowing desire to write? Or draw? Or photograph the world around you? Do you find delight in jars full of doll hands and creaking staircases? Then we want you to write a story or draw a picture for us. Please read the guidelines carefully as submissions that do not fit the requirements will not be accepted and that would be a shame. All work submitted MUST be original work by the writer or artist submitting it. When you submit your work you give Underneath The Juniper Tree the royalty-free right to display it on our site and to put it in our online issue without any *compensation.
Writers –
Underneath The Juniper Tree is accepting submissions for:
- Children’s literature in the short story form.
- Children's literature in the poetry form.
- Children's literature in the limerick form.
- Children's literature in just about any way you can think of that fits the guidelines below. We love surprises.
- Children’s literature in the short story form.
- Children's literature in the poetry form.
- Children's literature in the limerick form.
- Children's literature in just about any way you can think of that fits the guidelines below. We love surprises.
Guidelines
All submissions must be under 2000 words.
All submissions must be emailed to junipertreelit@gmail.com
All submissions must be for children from 9 years old to 999 years old.
Please put in the subject line of the email what you are submitting for. If you are submitting for a contest or challenge, please name the contest or challenge.
For the name of your document please put your story name, underscore and your name. Ex: ToesForEating_MarjorieMerle.doc
For the name of your document please put your story name, underscore and your name. Ex: ToesForEating_MarjorieMerle.doc
We are receiving many submissions at this time so please bear with us if we don’t get back to you immediately. We are very grateful for all the submissions and want to spend our time with each piece.
Submissions containing or alluding to rude, crude, indecent, negative content or anything else deemed by those at Underneath The Juniper Tree as unfit for our audience will not be accepted. Please remember that your writing and artistic endeavors should be geared towards children even though our audience ranges widely in age.
Submissions containing or alluding to rude, crude, indecent, negative content or anything else deemed by those at Underneath The Juniper Tree as unfit for our audience will not be accepted. Please remember that your writing and artistic endeavors should be geared towards children even though our audience ranges widely in age.
Artists –
Underneath The Juniper Tree is accepting adaptions of children’s literature in the artistic form.
Artistic means:
- Drawings.
- Paintings.
- Photography.
- Collage.
- Anything artistic that we feel has valor, potential and artistic merit.
Artistic means:
- Drawings.
- Paintings.
- Photography.
- Collage.
- Anything artistic that we feel has valor, potential and artistic merit.
Guidelines
All submissions must have a dark, whimsical children’s theme to them. Pictures of fluffy bunnies and rainbows will not be accepted. Images can be inspired by written pieces but do not have to be. If we are particularly keen on your piece, we might get someone to write a story about it!
Please put in the subject line of the email what you are submitting for. If you are submitting for a contest or challenge, please name the contest or challenge.
Please put in the subject line of the email what you are submitting for. If you are submitting for a contest or challenge, please name the contest or challenge.
All submissions must be emailed to junipertreelit@gmail.com
For the name of your document please put your piece name, underscore and your name. Ex: ToesForEating_MarjorieMerle.doc
Submissions containing or alluding to rude, crude, indecent, negative content or anything else deemed by those at Underneath The Juniper Tree as unfit for our audience will not be accepted. Please remember that your writing and artistic endeavors should be geared towards children even though our audience ranges widely in age.
For the name of your document please put your piece name, underscore and your name. Ex: ToesForEating_MarjorieMerle.doc
Submissions containing or alluding to rude, crude, indecent, negative content or anything else deemed by those at Underneath The Juniper Tree as unfit for our audience will not be accepted. Please remember that your writing and artistic endeavors should be geared towards children even though our audience ranges widely in age.
Dimensions
If you are submitting for the first time, please make sure you send us a low resolution example of your artwork with the title and any other relevant information. We will contact you if we will be using your piece and ask for a higher resolution version of it.
All submissions must be no larger than 100dpi or else our inbox will eat it up and it will never see the light of day again.
Please make sure your image is a jpeg.
If you would like to illustrate a story, or write a story about an image, please send your contact information, your website, a little blurb about yourself and some examples of your work (artists, I’m looking at you) to junipertreelit@gmail.comm. We will add you to our list of writers/artists.
A Note On Creative Rights: you, the author and you, the artist retain all rights to your pieces as you have created them. If you create something specifically for our weekly challenge or monthly contests, you still retain all rights to your piece. These are your pieces. Yours. YOURS! By submitting your work to Underneath The Juniper Tree you are allowing us royalty-free use of your piece on our site and in our issue if we choose to do so. But they are still yours. All yours.
*All of those at Underneath The Juniper Tree are volunteers and therefore we are unable to compensate writers and artists with money or abundance of gifts for their work. We will, however, put many hours into helping with editing and suggestions with pieces so that your best work can be displayed in Underneath The Juniper Tree if it is accepted. We love new work and want to see emerging creative people succeed.
A Note On Creative Rights: you, the author and you, the artist retain all rights to your pieces as you have created them. If you create something specifically for our weekly challenge or monthly contests, you still retain all rights to your piece. These are your pieces. Yours. YOURS! By submitting your work to Underneath The Juniper Tree you are allowing us royalty-free use of your piece on our site and in our issue if we choose to do so. But they are still yours. All yours.
*All of those at Underneath The Juniper Tree are volunteers and therefore we are unable to compensate writers and artists with money or abundance of gifts for their work. We will, however, put many hours into helping with editing and suggestions with pieces so that your best work can be displayed in Underneath The Juniper Tree if it is accepted. We love new work and want to see emerging creative people succeed.
