Content Submission

We are looking for articles, ideas, and insights dealing with each month's Small Group Dynamics online magazine theme; cartoons; brief testimonies about how God has moved in your group; humor in groups; ice-breaker ideas; whatever you think other leaders would benefit from. We will have special sections for different kinds of groups, so if you have something to contribute about recovery groups, for instance, send it to us. Also, we will include information and helps for all types of small group leadership: facilitators, apprentices and assistants, hosts, shepherds, coaches, administrators, pastors.

We use mostly practical, how-to oriented articles. Most articles are between 500 and 1,500 words in length, although shorter or longer articles may be used on occasion.

We prefer Bible quotations from the New International Version (NIV) or New Living Translation (NLT) (mark all Bible quotes with version used).

Query the editor by e-mail to dlentz@smallgroups.com at least two months in advance of issue date. Or just send an article(s) at least one month in advance. Send articles by disk or by e-mail as an attachment to dlentz@smallgroups.com by postal mail to P.O. Box 621, Zionsville, IN 46077.

The Small Group Network uses MS Word 2002 for Windows. We usually can convert other file types, however. Or, simply send your article as a text file. Include on your submission your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, and approximate word count of the article.

Not all articles that are submitted will be posted to the Small Group Network Internet site (s). Contributors who offer articles that are selected to be posted to the Internet are offering rights to their work in accordance to this agreement and will then be sent a check (or other barter agreement) which when cashed will serve as a written confirmation of rights being granted.

For articles posted to the Small Group Network Internet site(s) the Contributor grants and assigns to the Small Group Network during the full term of copyright specific rights to the Work together with supplemental rights pertaining to the Work, specifically:

- rights to publish Work to any Small Group Network Internet sites

- rights to publish Work in all other languages

- rights to publish Work in other Small Group Network projects involving other media formats (internet, audio, video, CD-ROM, book, and media formats of the future)

- rights to include the article in an SGN-published anthology and/or special projects.

The author retains the right to sell reprint rights to other publishers, the right to publish the article to other internet sites, control book rights (with the exception that SGN has the right to include the article in an SGN-published anthologies and special projects), and the right to use the article and excerpts of the article in the course of personal ministry (handouts, PowerPoint, etc.). The Small Group Network buys rights to use your content, but as the author, we also allow you to retain the right to use your work in the future as well.

We will buy reprints or second rights in accordance with this guideline as long as you own the copyright.

The Contributor presents that he or she is the sole proprietor of the Work and that to the best of his or her knowledge it does not contain any libelous, scandalous or obscene matter and does not violate the civil rights of any person or persons, and does not infringe any existing copyright.

In return for full rights to these articles, we pay $25-60 per article that we post to the Small Group Network Internet site(s). We will pay slightly more for first right (original) articles. Or, if you would like us to promote a book, ministry, or product related to small groups, we can do that as barter.

The Small Group Network shall have the right to edit, modify or adapt the Work or to combine any part of it with any other work as it may deem fit.

Follow the guidelines above to submit cartoons and other graphics related to small groups.