Connect Magazine is a quarterly gloss publication.

We focus on Health and Well-being, Community, Spirituality and Environment

as well as an awesome line up of Regular Features. 

 

Regular Features

  • Astrology by Hazel Leung   
  • Animal Medicine by Shamaness Misha Hoo
  • Black and White Tarot Cards by Misha Hoo
  • Book Reviews by Angi Nakita
  • Crystal Feature by Angi Nakita
  • Essential Oils by Toni McMahon
  • Faces of the Far North
  • Feng Shui by Master Jan Leese
  • Gardening by Jo Martin
  • Herb of the Month by Naturopath David Peirce
  • Introducing Column
  • Recipes by Naturopath Mayumi Kojima
  • Siddha Stories by the Universal Storyteller
  • Therapy Feature

Editorial Submissions

We print articles on health, wellbeing, arts, the environment and spirituality. Each edition also has a theme. The theme for the following edition is listed on the Contents Page  of each magazine, but it is not necessary to write on the theme.

We try to include all articles submitted on a particular theme, as well as other articles received. However, at times we receive more material than we have space to publish in a particular edition (the size of each magazine is limited by the amount of advertising booked) and we must put aside some articles to be used in future editions.

Following are some guidelines to help to increase the likelihood that your article can be used.

To be considered for publication articles need to:

• be interesting, informative, accurate and uplifting/inspiring;

• be your own work (quotations or sections of others’ material must be appropriately acknowledged);

• include, if possible, an idea or an application of your topic that the reader can apply to enhance their day-to-day experience;

• be up to 900 words in length (see below for more information);

• be free of self-promotion or advertorial content, i.e. not be disguised advertising material (see below for more information).

 

Presentation:

Articles should be submitted by email, preferably as a MS Word attachment; definitely not pdf. Please don’t use any page formatting and please don’t type solely in upper case; use lower case also for headings and subheadings. Accompanying photographs can be submitted as a jpeg or pdf and will be included where space permits.

Preferred article length is 600 words. This helps to increase the number of articles we are able to include in each edition of the magazine. If an article is over 1000 words we might request that you shorten it to the required length, or alternatively our editorial team might remove material to bring it back to fewer than 1000 words.

• Please use only one space after a full stop.

• Use double inverted commas “ for dialogue, and single ‘ for ‘point makers’.

• Please spell-check your article before submitting.

Please ensure correct spelling for all proper names including place names, and for technical terms, as we might not be able to check these and could inadvertently print them incorrectly.

To increase the chance of inclusion in the upcoming edition, please submit articles by the 22nd of the current month. This gives the editorial team time to read and if necessary make changes for clarity, grammar, spelling or length.

As well as your name, if you wish you may provide a short ‘byline’ for the bottom of your article (up to 30 words). This could include your qualifications or experience and a phone number or email address. A web address would be considered advertising, as would workshop details etc. so should not be included. (A paid advertisement containing such material can be placed close to your article if you wish.)

Advertorial material:

Advertorial material is material in the body of an article or in your biographical summary that promotes your business or practice. The inclusion in an article of workshop details, or the fact that particular services or products can be obtained from you, are examples of advertorial material.

Connect Magazine is funded by advertising and any donations we receive. We appreciate the invaluable contribution of our advertisers and it is important that we don’t undermine these people who generously pay for ads, by accepting free advertising in the guise of articles.

Where practical, advertorial material is removed from an article during the editing process, so that the article can still be published. Where this is impractical (perhaps because much of the article is a form of advertising), you have the option of paying for the space and having your article published as if it were a story, with the word ‘Advertisement’ placed at the top or bottom of the page. As an indicator of the advertising cost for this type of material, 900 words plus the author’s bio and a small photo would be approximately one full page. Advertising rates for the magazine can be found at www.connectmagazine.org

Regular columnists:

A full page Regular Columnist (under 600 words)

*must take out an 8th page ad each edition: $400 year

*must take out a yearly listing in the A-Zen Directory for $100

*options available for regular feature on radio and podcasts

A half page Regular Columnist (under 400 words)

*must take out a yearly listing in the A-Zen Directory for $100

*options available for regular feature on radio and podcasts

We request that material for our regular columns be submitted by the 5th of the month. In addition to your qualifications and contact details, your ‘bio’, to be published at the top of your column can include a small personal photograph, your business name and a web address. However, any information regarding workshop dates, consulting times etc should be submitted separately as paid advertising.

We look forward to receiving your contributions. If you have any questions about material that you would like to submit to the magazine, please feel free to contact us at info@connectmagazine.org.

READER SURVEY

Our readers are people who are conscious about the environment and their health. They are people who are consciously seeking peace within themselves and in our world. Our readers are people who appreciate natural therapies, the environment, the arts, healthy foods and recipes, and special community events.

Readership

(based on Dec/Jan 2007 survey results mailed in to us)

I know we’re seriously overdue to run another survey… 2021!

Over 80% of readers are women
Over 90% of readers are aged over 28 years old
Over 70% of readers have used a natural therapy in the last 3 months.
Over 75% of our readers are loyal and collect every edition