Communities magazine is now seeking articles for issue #181, "The Culture of Intentional Community." The issue will be out in December 2018.

Please send your article idea to editor@ic.org by Friday, June 29, 2018.

Your final article must reach us by Friday, August 17, 2018.

• If you are a communitarian, how do living in and co-creating the collaborative culture of intentional community affect your daily life and your perspectives on what happens throughout your day?
  
• How does a particular experience, or set of experiences, in your daily life (incidents, conversations, etc.) illuminate or reflect the culture you are creating collectively?
  
• How does your experience serve as an example of ways in which intentional community life can address a basic cultural element, such as economic relationships, interpersonal communication, religion, spirituality, power dynamics, etc.?
• The precipitating element(s) in your story can happen either within your community or outside of the community (within the dominant society or from media, etc.). You could write about insights you gained harvesting turnips with fellow community members or shopping for supplies in a mega-store; browsing your community's foundational documents or reading articles about international politics. How does the culture of community affect how you perceive and experience your life, your interactions with others, and the world?
• What wisdom can the culture of community offer to the wider world?

Please remember that we are looking for stories, personal experiences, and concrete examples in your responses—these are what will make ideas and observations most "real" and relevant to readers.

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

2. We are also seeking articles about:

• Creating community in your neighborhood;
• Starting a new community;
• Process and communication issues in community; and
• Seeking community to join.

If you don’t want to write an article but want to submit photos, please check ic.org/submissions-to-communities-magazine or contact Yulia Zarubina at layout@ic.org for our Photo Guidelines.

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. We endeavor to present a diversity of views on community, including controversial or critical views, in a respectful and cooperative manner. If your article may generate controversy or strong reactions, or if the group(s) would want the chance to review it, please share your draft with group members to get their input before sending it to us. (Please see our Writers' Guidelines for additional details.)

III. Publication Rights. Once your article appears in Communities, we own first North American Publishing Rights. This means your article appears in Communities the first time it appears in North America. In addition to appearing in Communities, your article may also appear on our website or in future compilations. You retain all other rights to it. 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: Life in Cooperative Culture, (date); for further information on Communities: ic.org/communities-magazine-home."

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 others in your community or group like 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, please give us plenty of advance notice so that if we use your article we can get an illustrator. Please check ic.org/submissions to-communities-magazine or email us for our full Photo Guidelines. We also appreciate an author photo to accompany your short (several-line) author bio.

Thanks for your contributions!