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Submission Guidelines — Tea with Mother Nature — Editorial

Submission Guidelines for Tea with Mother Nature

A new publication for all things gardening, sustainability, ecosystems, environment, nature and creativity

If you sat down to have tea with Mother Nature — what would you say? What would you learn?

Welcome to Tea with Mother Nature, a publication to start conversations about gardening, sustainability, the environment, nature, creativity and what it means to be a human. What has she got to teach us? What would we like to tell her about our own interactions with her natural world?

We are seeking new writers as well as experienced writers to contribute. It doesn’t matter how many followers you have. We’re interested in the quality of your writing and what you’re writing about. We want stories of hope and solutions. Interested? Read on.

Tea with Mother Nature Tabs

Moments of Wonder -tag: Nature — Stories celebrating nature in all its positive forms. Have you experienced moments of wonder? Do you want to share an amazing experience or insight into nature?

In the Garden — tag: Gardening — Do you enjoy gardening? Do you have tips to share? Do you grow something that inspires you? What experiences have you had in the garden?

Inspired by Nature — tag: Creativity — What’s happened to you that was inspired by nature? How has nature amazed you? Are you an artist inspired by nature? How has nature helped you resolve a problem?

Mother Nature’s Future — tag: Sustainability — What have you done to be more sustainable? How have you changed your world to improve the future? What “good news” about the future would you like to share?

Mother Nature’s Heroes — tag: Environment — Who is doing things that will improve our interaction with the environment? Have you interviewed someone who is changing the world for the better? Are you inspired by someone’s actions to conserve nature?

Tea and a Book — tag: Book Review — Book Reviews focusing on published work that gives readers a research-based commentary on connecting with nature or features connection with nature in some form.

The Rules

  1. Medium rules rule. All articles must align with Medium’s code of practice.
  2. A proper title. A subtitle is preferred but not compulsory. Make sure your title is formatted in the Title case.
  3. Use of images — please ensure every image is captioned with the appropriate citation. Obviously, you should only use images that you have rights for and the citation will confirm this. Unsplash is fine! Your own pictures are better! See Medium’s advice here for more information.
  4. Tags — we will only publish articles that use appropriate tags that “fit” the publication like the following: gardening, garden, sustainability, environment, nature, creativity, hope, ecosystems.
  5. Subject Matter — we’re interested in articles with all the tags above, but we’re most interested in positive experiences and positive solutions. We want to create a narrative that frames our interaction with nature as a solution to the environmental problems faced in the modern world. We want to motivate people by giving them insight into the small ways to make a better world.
  6. Editing — editing is not proofreading. Please make sure to proofread or use a proofreading tool before you submit. Having said that, while the publication is small, we will do some proofreading to help the publication grow. We will accept Australian English, English and American English provided the spelling is consistent throughout.
  7. Please follow the publication. Your support will help everyone’s contributions!
  8. Please submit in draft form.

You can email us using: [email protected]

We also have an Instagram account (teawithmothernature), twitter account (TeaWithMotherN1) and a Quora space and we will feature every article published with a screenshot. We’ll also tag you if we know your username. Feel free to let us know!

We’re new. Please be patient with us as we add to these guidelines through experience.

Questions: ask us in the comments!

If you’d like to be added as an author please comment with your medium user I.D. below! We aim to check this every day but it may take a few days in busy times.

Edited to add 19/09/2021: We’ve just sent out a call for submissions! Read it here:

Once you’re added as a writer you might like to take up a writing challenge. We will issue a new one as often as possible. Here’s the latest:

Thanks for reading! We hope to see you soon!

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