Submission Guidelines

The Senior Voice publishes interviews, reviews, fiction, creative non fiction, essays, opinions and poetry by the over fifty community. Our bi-monthly newspaper is distributed into the counties of Collin, Dallas and Denton in North Texas.

Our readers are made up of individuals who have crossed that magical marker and are beginning to pursue new dreams, vanish old dragons, and step up with an ‘ageless’ aging attitude. In other words, digging life after fifty! However in pursuit of continued life-long-learning and exploration of newly created avenues, topics such as preparing for retirement, downsizing, caring of aging parents and other relative themes enter into a long and well lived life. Psychologists, gerontologists and experts in the expanding aging field, submit articles that educate and help support some of life’s more difficult decisions.

The Senior Voice accepts queries and submission via e-mail. Please send to cbutler@theseniorvoice.com. Be sure to include complete contact information, including mailing address and phone, in the article file as well as in your e-mail message. If you would like to submit via post, please send to Carol Butler, Publisher, The Senior Voice, 2516 Daybreak Drive, Dallas, Texas 75287.

Profiles and Short Stories
We encourage first time writers to send us their work.
The length of articles range between 400-750 words for our printed edition and 400– 1000 words for internet placement. Please visit our website, www.theseniorvoice.com and click on ‘past issues’ to review past articles. It will give you a better feel for our editorial focus.

Though we are open to all opinion and thought, we stay away from stone throwing.

Poetry
Poems may be rhymed or unrhymed, although preference is given to well crafted free verse.

Poems should be no more than 20 lines in length. Please do not submit more than 3 poems at a time.

The Senior Voice does not award published materials. We will however, print a short bio with contact information.

Please expect to wait up to two months for a reply. Occasionally with
e-mail, there are technical difficulties. We cannot be responsible for delay or
loss of submissions. To submit, or to check on the status of your submission
after two months have passed, please send a message to our editor at
cbutler@theseniorvoice.com

By submitting your work to the Senior Voice, you grant us the right to archive your work online for an indefinite period of time. As appropriate, we may also choose to nominate published work for awards or recognition. You retain all other rights.

Once the issue featuring your work has been published, you are free to
republish your work as you wish, online and/or in print. Any subsequent
publication should note that your work was first published in the Senior Voice. You are also welcome to create a link to the Senior Voice (www.seniorvoice.com)from your personal website.

Artists
Art queries along with internet links to samples should be directed to cbutler@theseniorvoice.com.

Openings, Book Signings, Meetings, Seminars
Send a press release announcing your show or event two months prior along with an online link.

Thank you for your inquiry.

Carol Butler
Publisher
972-862-2668 972-862-7174 fax cbutler@theseniorvoice.com