Dear Business and Health Professionals,
Alaska Wellness Magazine is looking for articles, short stories,
cartoons and art work by lay people as well as experts. We want your
help to educate the public in the ways of health and wellness.
The audience you will be appealing to is of a wide variety -- from
grass-roots activists to those seeking or involved in therapy, from
parents working to create a healthier lifestyle for their children to
those reading about holistic health and the mind-body-spirit
connection for the first time. Our readers are interested in
self-improvement, psychology, physical fitness, health and improving
the quality of their lives. There are many who are afraid of the
increasing disease rate on the planet and have come to the conclusion
they need other options in health care -- and self-care. Wellness
wants to give our readers an overview of those alternatives and teach
self-responsibility both in health care and in the management of our
daily lives.
At present, Alaska Wellness does not pay for articles. Our
goal is to publish interesting, informative, enlightening articles from
Alaskan professionals or those who come to Alaska to teach. This helps
build business for natural health professionals and educates the
public with the array of alternative health and self-improvement
therapies our state has to offer.
Please note: you do not have to be a professional writer to
have share your valuable information with our readers. Our editor will
work with you to help shape your article into something that others
can benefit from, without losing your unique style and voice.
We welcome articles on a wide variety of subjects: healing styles
and modalities; general health; physical fitness and exercise;
nutrition; politics; tools to improve work and home environments;
psychology; spiritual ideas and principles; natural childbirth and
birth stories; and personal stories of emotional healing, miracles and
spiritual experiences.
We are NOT interested in "infomercials" or articles that
serve only to encourage readers to attend workshops or seminars.
Instead, all articles should include a bit of wisdom, insight,
education or information that can be shared with readers simply
through reading.
Articles can range from the very short (only a few hundred words)
up to about 1200 words. In general, we like to keep all pieces within
this word count range. We sometimes run a series of articles, in
which a topic is discussed in several issues of our magazine. If you
have an idea for a longer article or series of articles, please e-mail
our editor first.
It is the policy of Alaska Wellness Magazine that first
preference for article space shall go to advertisers, unless it is
a public service article (for example, such topics in the past have
included the dangers of MSG, aspartame and vaccinations) or personal
healing stories that may help others. New advertisers have preference
over previously published advertisers. Much of the time we do not have
free space to publish non-advertisers because so many advertisers
submit articles.
Article copy can be e-mailed to Alaska Wellness at jackie@alaskawellness.com
or directly to the editor at editor@alaskawellness.com.
Articles can also be faxed, sent by regular mail, or sent as an
attachment (RTF files only!), though we prefer a simple
Copy & Paste into the email itself. (Please: No elaborate
formatting and no pictures imbedded into any articles.) We
may hold your work until it fits into an issue
if we don't use it right away.
Again, we encourage writers to gear their articles toward empowering the reader and
sharing information that all readers can use.
Thank you for adding your voice to the Voice of Alaska Wellness!
Jackie Kosednar, Publisher
