Promote Your Work: Submit a Creativity-Inspiring Article or Project

Creativity Portal Article Submission Guidelines

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Thank you for your interest in submitting an original article or project to the Creativity Portal Web site.

Creativity Portal welcomes original and light reprint* articles and projects on topics related to art, crafts, writing, and creativity, and other sub-topics that tie into artistic living, innovation in the workplace, and the business end of creativity (selling art, publishing, marketing, etc.). It also welcomes professional perspectives from creativity and life coaches, published writers, and seasoned professional and gallery showing artists.

* Light reprint means the article may appear on other Web sites, but preference will be given to original articles that haven't been circulated or submitted to free content sites and article banks.

About the Creativity Portal Web Site

Creativity Portal is an inspirational how-to resource visited by millions of artists, writers, crafters, and creativity enthusiasts each year. It features free projects, motivational articles, and instructional Web resources on hundreds of topics to encourage the exploration and expression of personal creativity while promoting awareness for unique self-care issues facing creative individuals. It's been recommended by Writer's Digest, the English Journal, and Imagine magazines, and is promoted on thousands of sites including newspaper articles Web-wide. Please visit our About page to learn more about our history and media features.

Creativity Portal also publishes a bi-weekly e-newsletter sent out to thousands of opt-in subscribers each month. The newsletter promotes the newest features and original articles published on the Creativity Portal in an easy reference format.

We're Seeking

Creativity Portal is dedicated to presenting original creativity-inspiring content to our readers. We're open to all kinds of perspectives that touchstone on creativity and creative expression including, but not limited to:

• The creative process
• Using creativity and creative expression (through art, crafts, writing, or other outlets) for self-exploration, growth, healing, and spiritual practice
• Unique projects and prompts (including photo prompts)
• How-to instruction
• Workplace innovation
• Tips and advice for the business end of creativity
• Professional creativity coach, consultant, or life coach insights and advice on artistic living
• Exercises to induce creative thinking

If you are an expert on one of these topics and would like to reach our audience with your unique perspective, you are invited to submit your article (min. 600-1200 words) for possible inclusion on our Web site in exchange for exposure and promotion for you Web site and/or business (non-paid submissions) on our Web site and in our growing e-newsletter.

Authors of articles accepted for publication on the Creativity Portal enjoy generous exposure for their work and Web site(s) through our e-newsletter and site-wide pages related to the topic at hand. Articles are archived indefinitely on the Creativity Portal for continued Web promotion to the author.

How to Submit an Article or Project

Submitting an article or project to the Creativity Portal Web Publisher is easy. Please use our contact form to send us your article text after reviewing the information below.

(Sorry, due to spammers and viruses no attachments are allowed for this initial contact. If you have images or other attachments that need to accompany your article or project, we'll provide a direct e-mail address for you after your initial contact to us via our form.)

Paste the following information into the form:

• Article title
• Your name (by-line)
• Your e-mail address
• Up to four lines of biography information for your article footer, including your Web site URL (if applicable).
• Full text of article, including a copyright notice with year at the end.
• Has the article been circulated or submitted to an article bank?

Note to Creativity Coaches: Please let us know if you are a practicing coach when you submit your article to us.

After submitting your article, you will receive a confirmation e-mail to notify that your article has been received. We will personally acknowledge accepted submissions and contact you when your article has been published on our Web site.

Terms and Conditions

Creativity Portal highly respects the creator's copyright and values each contribution made to our Web site. In our efforts to provide quality, inspiring content to our visitors, our Terms and Conditions are as follows.

• Articles must be the work of the submitting author.
• Author retains copyright of article(s) published on our Web site and excerpted in our e-newsletter.
• If the article is a reprint, you must hold the reprint rights. If possible, please include brief publication history.
• Articles may contain artwork or graphics. Please supply the URL to the artwork online for us to retrieve, or send it to us upon our request. Graphics should be compressed Web-ready (72 dpi) .jpgs or .gifs.
• Articles and artwork accepted for publication will be formatted to fit our site layout, styles, and ad-supported interface.
• Articles accepted for publication will include your author by-line and footer "About the Author" biography information, and one link to your Web site.
• Articles accepted for publication will be archived indefinitely on our Web site. Once published, we do not intend to remove the content, but reserve the right to delete any article or project from our site for any reason at any time. In other words, please do not submit your work if you do not want it to be archived “forever" into Web history.
• Original articles accepted for publication will be promoted on our home page, in our e-newsletter, and on related pages within our Web site for further exposure and promotion to the author.
• We reserve the right to edit articles for spelling and grammar; and artwork for size to fit our format.
• We make no guarantees towards the acceptance of any article, perpetual linking to Web sites, or promotion of any persons or Web sites suggested to us. We will only acknowledge article submissions published on our Web site, and will contact the author upon publication. Should an author's Web site go offline, change hands, or become defunct, we reserve the right to remove the bio link so as not to confuse our visitors.
• Terms and Conditions may be modified anytime at our discretion.

If you agree to these terms, please click the link below and submit your article through our contact form. If you have further questions, please use the form for inquiry.

We look forward to receiving your submission. Thank you for your interest in the Creativity Portal Web site!

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