Service the Write Way!

The District 14 Newsletter needs your contributions.

Your reflections on turning "hurting into hope" can help others.

Are you looking for an opportunity to share your experience, strength, and hope with the wider District 14 community of recovery? Then contributing to the District 14 Newsletter is right up your alley!

We're looking for any recovery-related content that you would like to submit. Please send your writings on any Al-Anon related topic.

Some suggestions:
• Your work on a Step, Tradition, or Concept
• A theme of recovery (surrender, humility, faith, hope, etc.)
• How Al-Anon has affected your life with your family/work/community
• You experiences with a sponsor or being in a service position
• Slogans that have helped you (One Day at a Time, Easy Does It, Let Go and Let God, etc.)
• Whatever is on your mind and in your heart related to recovery

Depending on the number and type of submissions, we may organize the newsletter around a theme, or it may be a general collection of articles about a life of recovery. It's all up to you!

Thank you for your interest.

Submission Guidelines

How to submit an article Simply email your article to district14newsletter@yahoo.com or hand it to one of your friendly editors or your Group Representative.

Deadline Because the newsletter is planned to be published monthly, all articles for next month's newsletter must be submitted in final form by the 15th of the current month. New or revised articles arriving after the cutoff date will be included in a future issue. The deadline is especially important if you are submitting an article that is time sensitive. For example, if you want to submit an article about the Sixth Step and would like ti to appear in the June issue, we would need the article with final revisions no later than May 15th.

Format The District 14 newsletter is planned to start off as a monthly publication of 2-4 pages. There is no limmit on the number of articles you may submit, but depending on the available space/number of submissions, the editors may only publish on of your articles per month, or we may be forced to delay one or more of your articles until a following month. We may also collect and hold your article for inclusion in a future newsletter with a specific theme.

Articles should be around 200-250 words. You are welcome to write longer articles, but depending on space, we possibly may make suggestions for shortening the article, suggest splitting the article into parts, or edit your article to fit into the space available. We will attempt to notify you if fitting a longer article into the newsletter is a concern.

The editors reserve the right to fix spelling and grammatical errors, but otherwise we will not add or change words in your article. If changes to content are required because of major structural issues (run-on sentences, sentence fragments, missing words, etc.), we will return the piece to you with suggestions for editing.

Credit We will publish your article(s) with a "by-line" consisting of your first name and last initial. If you wish to have your article published as "Anonymous", please let us know at the time of submission.

Permission and Copyright By submitting your article, you are giving Al-Anon District 14 non-exclusive permission to use your submission in any print and/or electronic publications of the District. We will keep your permission "on the books" so if we need to re-run your submission sometime in the future, we'll be able to do so. You maintain copyright of your own works.

To avoid potential copyright issues, please only submit your original writing. However, quoting from Al-Anon Conference-Approved Literature is allowed.