Submission Guidelines

Unbound wel­comes unso­licited sub­mis­sions con­sis­tent with the journal’s jus­tice ethos and community-building objec­tives. Fur­ther, sub­mis­sions are not lim­ited to any sin­gle form of expres­sion; some may com­bine or sug­gest illus­tra­tions and con­tain web-links. The goal is to broaden par­tic­i­pa­tion and per­spec­tives. Unbound thus pub­lishes arti­cles des­ig­nated for the the­matic jour­nal pub­lished four to six times a year; timely arti­cles, inter­views and dis­cus­sion pieces to be posted in between jour­nal issues (gen­er­ally address­ing cur­rent issues and events); blogs; ser­mons; and a vari­ety of art and mul­ti­me­dia, includ­ing pho­tos, videos, paintings/drawings (scanned), poetry, and music.

Process of Sub­mis­sion
For all sub­mis­sions, please email patrick.heery@pcusa.org with the fol­low­ing information:

  • Name, e-mail, phone num­ber, address, orga­ni­za­tional and/or reli­gious com­mu­nity asso­ci­a­tion (if any) of the Contributor
  • The phrase “UNBOUND sub­mis­sion” in the sub­ject line
  • Nature of the sub­mis­sion, i.e. Is it an arti­cle for the the­matic jour­nal or a poetry selec­tion or some­thing else?
  • Writ­ten assur­ance that you are the owner of all copy­rights and other intel­lec­tual prop­erty rights to the mate­r­ial and that the mate­r­ial does not vio­late or infringe another’s rights, includ­ing, but not lim­ited to, pri­vacy, pub­lic­ity or intel­lec­tual prop­erty, and that the mate­r­ial does not infringe any other copy­rights, is not defam­a­tory and is not a vio­la­tion of law; and
  • An abstract of no more than 200 words describ­ing the the­sis and/or pur­pose of the sub­mis­sion. The abstract should be located in the body of the mes­sage. Attached abstracts with no abstract in the body will not be opened.

At this time, fol­low­ing the tra­di­tion of Church & Soci­ety, we do not offer com­pen­sa­tion for the pub­li­ca­tion of submissions.

Cri­te­ria for Sub­mis­sion
(Click on a cat­e­gory for details.)
Arti­cles
Pho­tos and Art
Poetry and Cre­ative Writ­ing
Video and Audio

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