Submission Guidelines

Before you submit your story for review and publishing on the Healing Fairy Tales website, please make sure that your submission meets the following guidelines. 

Topics & Themes

Your poem, illustration, or story needs to have an emotionally-healing theme, with an vulnerability/issue being dealt with, a transformative moment and the ending must be of overcoming the said issue. In other words, we are looking for a positive ending with triumph or self-realization for the story to be healing for the readers. 

Format

Your submission must be sent to team@healingfairytales.com in any of the following formats only: .doc, .docx, and .pdf. 

Word Limit

We will not review more than 5,000 words.

Formatting

Please use 12pt double-spaced text in a standard font.

Grammar and Punctuation

Please make sure your writing follows the rules of English grammar. You can use either British English or American English, but please make sure to keep them consistent throughout the story. (Tip: You can use a free online tool such as Grammarly to make sure your grammar, punctuation and spellings are appropriate. )

Simultaneous Submissions

We accept simultaneous submissions from one user but make sure that there are no repetitive entries. But please make sure to submit each story in an individual email only.

Submission Email Format

Please mention the title of your story followed by your name/pen name in the subject of the email. The story must be sent in the email as an attachment in any of the above-mentioned formats. You may add your thought/inspiration behind the story in the submission email. 

Introduction

Sometimes, the same healing story may resonate differently with different individuals. Please add a small introduction of about 100-200 words in your submission email mentioning some characteristics, issues that you aim the story to address.

Response Time

We are a small team tending to the garden, and therefore it may take a longer time to read/review and approve entries. It may take 2-4 weeks to get back to you.

Publishing Gaurantee

A submission following these guidelines and the Terms and Conditions does not automatically guarantee that the story will be published on the website.

Submission Fee

There is no submission fee associated with the entries. 

Payment

Currently, we do not pay for any submissions, however, we will share the writing credits by adding the writer’s name in the story byline.

Edits

Please be advised that from time to time we may suggest/need the author to make specific revisions or edits to the story prior to approving the story for publishing on Healing Fairytales. And often we may make minor edits prior to the publication without informing the author.

Critique/Feedback

We do not provide detailed feedback for each submission that we receive. However, we may provide comments to the author if there are chances of improvement and/or publishing potential post revision in the story.

NOTE: Please note that any critique/feedback will only come from a space of encouragement. And we understand that not everyone submitting the stories is a literary expert. Sometimes only writing and submitting a story itself can be healing and any critique on the same may be unwelcome. Therefore, in case you do not wish to receive any possible feedback please mention that same in your submission email and we will respect your wishes.