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Summary

Dancing Elephants Press offers a platform for writers to publish content that promotes positivity, community support, and personal growth, with a commitment to fostering a welcoming and inclusive environment.

Abstract

Dancing Elephants Press is a publication dedicated to spreading positivity, fostering community connections, and encouraging emotional and mental well-being. It invites writers who align with its values of joy, hope, and care for the environment to contribute articles that fit within its accepted topics of positivity and life experiences. The submission process includes a review period of 48-72 hours, and writers are encouraged to support each other by tagging and highlighting fellow DEP writers' work. The guidelines emphasize the importance of adhering to formatting conventions, including the use of headings, images, and a brief bio, while prohibiting self-promotion, affiliate links without clear indication, and any form of anti-social rhetoric. DEP also does not accept AI-generated content. Writers must ensure their submissions comply with Medium's rules and distribution standards, and they are encouraged to reach out to the DEP team for any questions or clarifications.

Opinions

  • The publication values emotional and mental support, spirituality, and open-mindedness, aiming to spread joy, peace, laughter, and dance.
  • DEP emphasizes a culture of mutual support among writers and readers, with an expectation that writers will actively engage with and promote each other's work.
  • The editors maintain high standards for content, requiring grammar checks, appropriate tagging, and formatting that aligns with the publication's conventions.
  • DEP is committed to being an inclusive space, with zero tolerance for racist, bigoted, or erotic content, and actively updates its rules to maintain a positive environment.
  • The publication celebrates the diversity of its contributors, showcasing various columns run by different editors, each with specific tagging conventions to help categorize content effectively.
  • DEP encourages writers to include a short bio and an attributed image in their articles, and to link images correctly if they are free source or to give credit if they are original works.
  • The editors provide clear instructions on how to become a writer for DEP and the process for submitting articles, including the use of specific tags and adherence to Medium's policies.
  • DEP promotes its presence on social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook, and YouTube, and encourages readers to engage with its content and support its writers by following, subscribing, and purchasing their books.

Dancing Elephants Press Submission Guidelines

Write for us!

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May Your Day Be Joyful With Laughter And Dance

About Dancing Elephants Press

I created Dancing Elephants Press so that we can bring positive change to the world together. My vision is to build supportive community connections, positivity, joy, hope, and care for each other and the environment around us. New beginnings for this Universe and Humanity.

Dancing Elephants Press builds on providing emotional and mental support, spirituality, and open minds. Spread joy, peace, laughter, and dance.

Our Culture

  • We are a community of writers and readers supporting writers and readers. We want more writers who want to be a part of that community, support and help each other out, and help us be a welcoming, open space.
  • Writers who embody our culture and goals will fit best with Dancing Elephants Press.
  • If you have a problem, question, or concern, please get in touch at [email protected].
  • Please support each other by tagging and highlighting another DEP writer’s work you have read in your post. — this is optional as of 6/23/23

How to become a writer

Leave a comment below, include your username (@_______), and request writer status with our publication. You will be added as soon as possible.

  • Becoming a writer does not mean your content will be automatically published.
  • If you become a writer but do not publish content for a lengthy period, we may remove you as a writer.

Submissions checklist

  1. Complete your story to your satisfaction and grammar check it prior to submission. Leave it unpublished.
  2. Ensure the TOPIC fits within our guidelines (see below).
  3. Add suitable TAGS (see below).
  4. Ensure the FORMATTING matches our conventions (see below).
  5. Complete a GRAMMAR and spell-check through a tool like Grammarly.
  6. Click the options on the top right and select ‘Add to Publication’.
  7. Add it to Dancing Elephants Press.

Submission Process/Timeframes

  • We are a small publication.
  • It will generally take us 48–72 hrs to review and either publish or choose not to publish a story.
  • We will not notify you if your story is rejected.
  • Edits and resubmits of the same article are welcome.
  • We accept published/unpublished drafts.

Accepted Topics

Your article should fit within at least one of the following topics: Anything that spreads a positive message.

Tags

Please include:

  • One tag must be “Dancingelephantspress”.
  • Choose the other four tags as the most appropriate tags to fit your story.
  • CHOOSE ONE OF THESE — examples: positivity, life experience, joy, peace, happiness to Ensure you tag your post with the topic(s) that it falls into.
  • Stories on Life — column run by Dr. Preeti Singh. For any life experiences please use the tag #Dep Life
  • For the photography column please use the tag “Dep Photography” — column run by Annelise Lords
  • Inspiration column by Vidya Sury, Collecting Smiles — please use the tag #Dep Life
  • For poetry run by Dr. Gabriella Korosi please use the tag “Dep Poetry”
  • For our column Wisdom run by DR Rawson - The Possibilist please use the tag #Dep Life

Rules

  • Posts made to clearly self-promote won’t be accepted.
  • Affiliate links must be clearly indicated.
  • No erotic, racist, bigoted, non-inclusive, hate speech or other anti-social rhetoric in articles or behavior in the publication (comments, etc.) will be tolerated.
  • As a growing publication, rules may be added over time, and we reserve the right to act on any new/modified rules as we see fit.
  • AI-generated written content will not be accepted.

Formatting

  • Headings and other formatting options are your friends. Use them to separate ideas!
  • Include a Headline and Subheading in all articles.
  • Include an attributed image in all articles. It should be horizontal to avoid a long scroll for readers opening up the article.
  • You can include a short bio (aim for <50 words) at the bottom of the article
  • Images need to be linked if free source per Medium policy, if it is your own image please give credit to yourself or whoever made the image.

Have a question?

Email DEP here. ([email protected])

Please make sure you are up to date with all the Medium rules, anything not complying with Medium rules will be rejected/removed.

Here are some links below:

Medium Rules Medium Policy Medium Terms of Service (ToS) Medium’s Distribution Standards COVID-19 Content Policy

You can read more about me here

Have questions or need clarifications? Do not hesitate to get in touch with us via email or via a private note, or a comment on this post.

Please support each other by tagging and highlighting another DEP writer’s work you have read in your post.

More about Dancing Elephants Press on our About page here.

To email us, use [email protected]

Follow Dancing Elephants Press on Twitter and Facebook and on YouTube

Image created by DR Rawson - The Possibilist

With love from your editors:

Dr. Gabriella Korosi, Vidya Sury, Collecting Smiles, Dr. Preeti Singh, and DR Rawson - The Possibilist.

If you like my writing please follow me here, Subscribe to the Medium platform using my link here, and Buy me a coffee here. My Books are available on my website here, Amazon here and Barnes and Noble here, Draft2Digital here. Gabriella on Newsbreak here.

Please check out the books Dancing Elephants Press published in collaboration with other Medium writers in 2022–2023.

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