Cohousing-L Mailing List: Re: call for articles for Communities magazine

[roberta.bill (roberta.bill]

Good evening Alyson,

Here is an  article idea for the Summer 2008 issue.

Chaswood Green Cohousing and Farm is a forming cohousing group in Nova 
Scotia, Canada. While Canada has a small number of exisiting cohousing 
projects, this will be the first one in the Maritime Provinces.  A farming 
couple, who are getting on in years, wanted to keep the farm going and be 
able to remain on their land.  They set in motion the prospect of a 
cohousing community built on their land.
We propose to build and sustain an environmentally friendly community that 
has chosen to live by the values of integrity, simplicity, diversity, and 
equality and that balances common ownership with private ownership and 
balances governance-by-consensus and social interaction with the need for 
individual privacy, while caring about one another in all life's stages.

Our plan is to create a diverse community, but also be a part of the 
exisiting community in this beautiful rural area of the province of Nova 
Scotia.  We have come a long way over the past three years, even though we 
have not yet turned sod.  We have reached a point where we hope to begin 
building by next summer (the time when the issue is to come out)  There has 
been a terrific amount of work done by the group members in order to reach 
this point.

I would like to write an article that expresses the idea, the creativity, 
the committment, the history and the ongoing effort to create this 
community.  Our membership is in favour of my doing this.  I would love to 
use some photos too.

Creating a cohousing community is a huge undertaking.  If we can pull this 
off, and I am confident that we can, then I think that Chaswood Green 
Cohousing and Farm will be a fine, living, example of creating solutions for 
sustainable living. As the first of its kind in Eastern Canada, we will be 
an attraction for many people, and organizations that wish to find out how 
such a thing can be created.  We expect to be much visited.

I look forward to hearing from you.  I think the proposed article would be a 
fine fit, and a fitting contribution to the Communities Magazine.

Roberta McGinn,

roberta.bill [at] ns.sympatico.ca

902-461-9976


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Communities Magazine" <communities.editor [at] gmail.com>
To: "Communities Magazine" <editor [at] ic.org>
Sent: Monday, November 26, 2007 11:15 PM
Subject: [C-L]_ call for articles for Communities magazine


Hello,

Communities Magazine is now seeking articles for our Summer 2008 issue, 
“Green
Building in Community.” The issue will be out in June 2008.

Please send me your article idea by ***Friday, December 14***.

Your final article must reach me by ***Friday, January 18***.

1. Theme articles: “Green Building in Community”:

What is green building and what is natural building? How do they fit with
building community? How does natural building involve and empower people of
different ages, genders, and abilities? Does your community encourage 
natural
building, passive solar design, energy conserving construction techniques, 
or
other aspects of green building? How has this focus benefited your community 
and
its members? What challenges have you faced and how did you overcome them? 
Has
the question of green building been controversial in your community? If you 
or
your community lead workshops on green building or host interns, what 
difference
have those programs made? We want to publish your story!

[Please forward this email to anyone you think has a good story on this 
theme
for Communities magazine.]

2. We are also seeking articles about:
- Creating community in your neighborhood;
- Starting a new community;
- Process & communication issues in community; and
- Seeking community to join.

Word length is from 900 to 2500 words. We’re seeking articles written in a
reader-friendly popular-magazine style, rather than in academic style.

If you’d like to submit an article let us know and we’ll send you Writers’
Guidelines. Contact Alyson Ewald at editor [at] ic.org or 660-883-5330.

If you don’t want to write an article but want to submit photos let us know 
and
we’ll send you Photo Guidelines. Contact Ann-Marie Stillion at 
annmarie [at] ic.org.

I. WHAT "SUBMITTING AN ARTICLE" MEANS. We will promise to read your article, 
but
we may respectfully decline it and not publish it, or save it and publish it 
in
a future issue. We also reserve the right to edit, shorten, or revise your
article. Most of the time we contact authors about this ahead of time and 
get
their comments, corrections, etc.

II. GETTING PERMISSION AHEAD OF TIME. Please send the article only when you 
have
permission from anyone you need it from, such as fellow community members. 
It’s
difficult for us to get all set to run an article only to find that the 
author’s
fellow community members say No at the last minute.

III. PUBLICATION RIGHTS. Once your article appears in Communities magazine, 
we
own first North American Publishing Rights. This means your article appears 
in
Communities magazine the first time it appears in North America. After that, 
you
own it again. If you’d like to use it elsewhere, you can, and we would
appreciate your using an attribution line saying, “This article first 
appeared
in Communities magazine, (date); for further information on Communities
magazine: www.ic.org.”

IV. PHOTOS.

If we publish your article, we want to accompany it with compelling images 
that
illustrate your subject. You know your subject best, so we are appealing to 
you
for images. If you submit an article idea, our Photo Editor, Ann-Marie 
Stillion,
will send you our photo guidelines, including how to send us your photos. In 
the
meantime, we hope this guide will help you. If the task seems overwhelming, 
see
if someone else in your community likes taking pictures. They might already 
have
great images to go with your article.

If you would like to submit an article but cannot supply photos, that’s 
fine;
however, you must give us plenty of advance notice so that if we use your
article we can get an illustrator.

No matter how you send us your photos, please remember to include 
information
for the caption, as well as the full name of whomever we should credit for 
the
photo.

Content of the submitted images:

If the story is focused on a certain person or group, include a photograph 
of
them. Always get as close to your subject as possible. Photographs of your
subjects engaged in their work or in their environment make for interesting
photos. We will assume that any people in your photos have already given you
permission to appear in Communities magazine. If you think this will be a
problem, please take care of it before sending us photos.

You may also include additional, ambient photographs of a home, a table 
setting,
food, art, or landscape, along with your people shots. We are a magazine 
about
people and communities but every picture does not need to have people in it.
Maybe the image is a row of colorful shoes next to a playground that 
suggests
children, for example.

Modern digital cameras put the power of making beautiful images in all our
hands. Use the power and have fun!

Color cover photos:

We pay $150 for the images we use on the cover. If you are interested in
submitting images for the cover, please study the call for articles posted 
for
that issue. The best way to achieve a winning cover is to study the magazine 
of
course. Be aware that your image must work behind the masthead, cover 
titles,
etc.—normally the top of the image should not be vital to the image meaning, 
for
example. We are seeking thought-provoking approaches to visually 
communicating
community—images which speak in new and interesting ways. Surprise us. Think
about what you would want to see/say on a newsstand. Feel free to contact 
the
photo editor with images or suggestions. You will need at least a 6 MB 
camera at
the highest resolution of capture for cover photos.

--
Alyson Ewald
Interim Editor
Communities magazine
http://communities.ic.org
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