SUBMISSIONS on VISIONS

What is VISIONS ?

Visions is a publication of Visions Horizon Press, and simply put is at its core an online community curated for creators to share and connect with the world devoted to trailing an open-minded creative lifestyle. We believe that creativity is not something gifted and either owned or not. Creativity is a craft that can be cultivated, practiced and sharpened as a result. Also creativity should have a massage to enlighten humanity life with knowledge and truth. It must be original and inspirational with loyal intention to improve the quality of life and rationality of every person everywhere on this Earth.

What does VISIONS publish?

First the intention was to publish any creative work that support environment, nature and climate. But we resolved that to attain that goal, the world needs mindful educated tolerated citizens, which will never be accomplished except by deep consumption of all knowledge sides of humans life and environments: natural, social, biological, moral, chronological, historical, financial etc..

Since knowledge is a vast deep ocean, VISIONS decided to become a home and a nest for professional, new and emerging writers and provide a platform for those who feel their work has not been appreciated elsewhere and their voice was not heard enough. With that purpose in mind submissions are fairly open — meaning we are constantly adding new writers and encourage a diverse range of creative fiction and non-fiction writing.

The publication will not focus on definite topic, genre or style. All pieces that serve as addition on the experiences of the writer and the reader are welcomed. But, we favor works that delivers a message less through exposition than through artistry. The selections we select is often of any kind: lyrical, narrative, poetic, media and even training courses, but shouldn’t have any kind of promotion, applying to the rules of Medium. (you can revise the rules down at this page)

As a writer, spend some time reading the publication and checking out what the rest of the community is publishing in VISIONS. If you believe your story would fit well alongside those other pieces, please submit. You and your work are always appreciated. All the submissions, in our publication, that are featured by Medium will be published and featured in our site “Visions Horizon Press”. (under construction right now).

Basic rules to publish your articles and stories:

1- The writer can submit any published or unpublished work. You can submit any work of yours old or new. Even you can copy and paste or import your products from other sites.

2- Previously published stories can be submitted and as long the original publishing date is longer than 1 month ago.

3- One submission per day per writer. This allows for greater diversity and variety in the stories our readers have access to each day.

4- All writers should acquire the skills of submitting their pieces on Medium by themselves. That can be applied by educating yourself about Medium instructions through these links:

5- The editors serve more as curators and less as proof readers. It is the responsibility of the writer to make sure the submitted story is free of errors.

Cases that the story wouldn’t be accepted :

To be honest, it is rre that we need to reject a story altogether. However, there are a few reasons we may refuse to publish a story or request that it be substantially edited. These reasons include:

1) Hateful rhetoric or stories written for the express purpose of causing controversy have no place here. Simply apply to general rules of publications and respect others visions and standards.

2) Excessive spelling and grammatical errors.

3) Multiple submissions from a single writer in a day.

4) Story is not fully developed and does not contain a noticeable plot or idea, communicate a clear point or is otherwise simply free form/stream of consciousness/journaling. Additionally, stories usually are not accepted that generally fall in the “listicle” category and/or are personal development pieces written to instruct and not do not communicate a creative narrative.

5) The story has been previously published in another Medium publication. This simply comes down to common courtesy and a healthy respect for the other publications here on Medium. But you can publish any article from any publication or magazine outside Medium.

How to be added as a writer in VISIONS ?

1- There are two states:

A. If you are a member of Medium send us an Email to visionsmedium@gmail.com with your Medium username @yourusername asking to add you to our publication, or simply let us know your username on medium and you will be added.

B. If you are not a member of Medium, you should sign up for Medium and get a @username then apply to part A.

· If you need help sign up to Medium, please see sign up or sign in.

· If you need help adding your story to Medium, please see add a post to medium

· If you need help understand Medium more, please see What is Medium?.

How to choose the section where your article should appear in VISIONS ?

Our publication is classified into many categories and your story will be posted in the certain section according to the tags you give it.

Medium, for SEO reasons, allows you go give your item five tags. The first tag you choose will decide where your article will be published in our publication.

Let’s consider that you want your article to appear in one of these categories of the Environment you must set the first tag “Environment”. These are the tags you can use:

ENVIRONMENT: Nature Climate Greens Earth Global Warming Pollution Landscapes

HUMAN: Love Life Family Emotions Happiness Health Wealth Finance Relations

CREATIVE: Fiction Non-Fiction Essay Stories Sculpture Graphics Fashions Comics

PERSONAL: Self-improvement Experiences Mindset Psychology Life Training

HORIZONS: Politics Social Future History All Visions and Imaginations

To make your story appear in two or more sections use two or more tags of those mentioned above.

What can I expect from VISIONS ?

· Timely review. This usually means 1–3 days and occasionally 3–5 days depending on what the nap schedule looks like. Please be patient and bear with us as we work full-time and try to balance that with serving this community as well as working on our own art

· General proofing for obvious typos and formatting issues. The editor will never change your work in any substantial way. The power to change messaging and the nature of artistic expression belongs solely to the creator — you.

· Published stories 6 days/week.

· Though rare, should a story need substantial editing and/or will not be published in the publication an email will be sent with suggestions for improvement and/or reason for refusal.

· Weekly featured stories and contributors.

What does VISIONS expect of me as a writer ?

· Subscribe to the publication to get updates and notifications.

· Be generous with recommends, responses and highlighting of other writers works. Obviously you won’t like everything, but when you find a story you enjoy please don’t hide it.

· Engage with other writers. Creating community is a key goal of this publication and community thrives around conversation; so, start one.

· Encourage others in their creative pursuits. A word of encouragement goes a long way for creatives. Give support and get support — it’s a cyclical culture worth fostering.

· Respect one another. Not everything published in VISIONS will reflect your own beliefs, principles or opinions. You do not have to agree with everyone in the community, but respect is required. For someone to have the courage to share their story publicly should be respected above all. Here we can have opposing views without opposing each other. There are plenty of places on the internet to troll and ridicule others. This is not one of them.

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Lastly, please do not hesitate to reach out if there is ever anything that VISIONS can do for you. This publication is for you. Your support and involvement is what makes this all possible. Should you have feedback, ideas or even criticism please send an email to visionsmedium@gmail.com. Your input is encouraged and appreciated.

Cheers from the editors,
Harry,