Submit Stories for Our Magazines
Do you have an inspiring story of God intervening in your life? We encourage you to share it with us!
How to Submit Your Story for Our Magazines
Submission information
Guideposts publishes two bi-monthly inspirational magazines — Guideposts and Angels on Earth — as well as an annual special publication, The Joys of Christmas.
A story should be told as a first-person narrative, constructed through scenes that make readers feel they are there as the story is happening. You can write a story for someone else with their permission.
Other tips:
- Tell the story from the perspective of the person who is changed most through the experience.
- Focus on one specific event or point in time rather than an entire life story.
- Give all the relevant facts so the reader can clearly understand what took place.
- Show the specific change the narrator undergoes because of the experience that readers can apply to their own lives.
- Study the magazine and how stories are told.
Payment is made when the story is accepted for publication. We publish full-length stories (1,200 – 1,500 words) and shorter features (300 – 600 words). Please do not submit essays, sermons, testimonials, fiction, or poetry. We don’t evaluate book-length material.
Take a look at our Writer’s Guidelines and then send your Guideposts story to submissions@guideposts.org.
If you have a story for Angels on Earth magazine, please send it to submissions@angelsonearth.org and if you have a story for Joys of Christmas, please send it to JOCsubmissions@guideposts.org.
Learn more with our online course “How to Tell a Great Story: The Essential Writing Course from the Editors of Guideposts.”
