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I welcome contributions from my readers, and if you're interested
in having your own work featured on Shira.net, I'd love to hear
from you!
Types Of Articles Desired
These are the types of articles I'm especially interested
in receiving, but if you have something that doesn't fall into
any of these categories, contact me and ask me whether it might
fit:
- Any kind of how-to's, advice, or tips. Could include
costume ideas, how to do certain dance moves, how to handle something
in the business side of dancing such as running an event, etc.
- Song translations. I welcome translations of songs
from Arabic, Turkish, Greek, Hebrew, and Armenian.
- Artwork, opinion pieces, poetry, fiction, essays, journals.
Our dance is wonderful for both the body and spirit!
- Photo galleries of either full-figured dancers, teen dancers,
or male dancers. At this time, I'm not looking for photo
galleries that fall outside these two categories, but check back
periodically in case I change my mind! See my Fabulous
Full Figures series for an example of what I have in mind.
A good candidate for a photo gallery should: 1) Have high-quality
photos. They should be well-lit, make it easy to see what the
dancer and his/her costume looks like, and be composed well.
For example, an example of bad composition would be a
picture that has a potted plant growing out of the dancer's head.
If you fit one of the categories I'm looking for but have only
one high-quality photo of yourself, I can put you on a gallery
page with other people. If you have 4-5 or more high-quality
photos of yourself, I can dedicate a gallery page to you.
What I Don't Need
At this time, I am not interested in receiving contributions
of product/event reviews. I have made a decision that all reviews
appearing on my web site must be written by me, personally. There
are many reasons for this.
Copyright Issues
I expect you to have the legal rights to send me whatever
you're sending. In other words, please don't copy a song translation
out of the liner notes of a CD or songbook and send it to me,
because legally I can't use that!
If you have written an article that has previously been published
in one of the print Middle Eastern magazines, I'm still willing
to consider it for my site. Please double-check the magazine's
copyright policy - typically, they expect you to grant them "first
serial rights", which means that they get to print it before
anyone else does. But once they have already published it, you
retain all other rights, including the right to offer it to me
for publication on my web site. When sending it to me, please
identify the magazine that originally published it, along with
the issue number/date.
Pay
I regret that I cannot offer cash payments to contributors
to my web site. I incur considerable costs in paying for the
hosting of this web site, and the money I collect from the Amazon
affiliate links barely covers that.
The best I can offer you is attribution/visibility. If you
contribute a full-length article, poem, or a piece of artwork,
I can include your photo and biographical information at the
bottom of the page. If you have your own web site, we can also
exchange links.
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