Submit to the Latest Issue! (Deadline: 31 Oct)
Posted: Thu Sep 01, 2022 5:36 pm
Welcome to HOL's very own newspaper, The HOwLer!
The theme for our upcoming issue is: Unexpected Sunshine
Deadline for submissions: 11:59 PM HOL time on the 31st of October, 2022
So do you have an idea for an article, or maybe even a column? Perhaps you've got a concept for the perfect ad. Or maybe you are just itching to flex your creative muscles with a spot of writing or by creating a work of art. Well, you are in the right place!
Our theme is 'unexpected sunshine' and you can interpret that however you'd like, so actual sunshine and figurative sunshine (like unexpected happiness) are both fair game. Remember that regular articles and submissions don’t need to fit the theme, though it’s great if they do!
Approval
All ideas for informative articles, Wizarding World News, opinion pieces, ads and puzzles must be approved before they are submitted.
If what you want to write needs to be approved, all you have to do is post your idea(s) below and wait for one of the Howler's editors to approve it. It will then be added to the list below. Please be patient though. We will get to you as quickly as possible, but it may sometimes take a while.
Idea Bank
If you don't have any ideas, we have curated an Idea Bank where you can go to find ideas for articles and ads. Please remember that even idea bank ideas have to be presented here for approval though (so we don't suddenly have ten articles on the same topic!).
Creative Showcase
For our creative showcase, we invite you to submit artwork or creative writing that fits the theme somehow. You don’t need to get these ideas approved - you can just start working on them.
For every issue, we give you a prompt to help spark your imagination. For this issue, that prompt is: "The sun broke through the clouds and revealed..." (you can use this as the starting point for a story or the inspiration for an artwork)
Requirements and Submitting
For more information and guidelines on our various sections, what types of submissions you might submit and what the requirements for each one are, please read through the overview thread and then head over to the Guidelines section to learn more.
These guidelines have been updated for the 2022/2023 school year:
1. you may now submit up to 30 points worth of graphics, but only 2 of those can be puzzles.
2. The Creative Contest has been retired and replaced with a simple creative prompt (found above)
Once your idea has been approved, you can send your submission through this form.
We are very excited to hear from you all!
Approved Ideas
Informative Articles
Solar Eclipses (Aura Nightmoon)
Mythology and traditions concerning Halloween from around the world (Pezzie Wolfe)
Sun motifs in vexillology and heraldry + graphic (Janne Halla)
Origins of sayings related to the sun or unexpected happiness + graphic (Janne Halla)
The sun's effects on plants and animals (Beezus Maloy)
Biography of Christa McAuliffe + graphic (February Fortescue)
The sunflower and its cultural importance (Astor Arensin)
The concept of serendipity (Astor Arensin)
Magical creatures that can control weather (Astor Arensin)
Upcoming Movies (Maeve Madden)
The History of Solar Energy (Skylar Peyton)
Biography of Roald Dahl (Skylar Peyton)
News from the Wizarding World
Sunlight Influenced Magic at Hogwarts (Nyx Blue)
Concerning Dragons and Sunlight (Rhaneyra Black)
Opinion/Personal
What brings you random happiness (Pezzie Wolfe)
Puzzles
Visual sudoku (Aura Nightmoon)
Sun themed wordsearch (Aura Nightmoon)
Fallen letters (Silvana Mandeville)
Tents and Trees (February Fortescue)
Crossword (February Fortescue)
Cryptogram (Prof. Sindor Aloyarc)
Jigsaw (Maeve Madden)
Logic Puzzle (Maeve Madden)
Ads
Sunny spells (Aura Nightmoon)
Weather in a bottle (Aura Nightmoon)
Art Department (Silvana Mandeville)
Wizarding Comedy Club (Silvana Mandeville)
Farstrider Wizarding Travel Agents (Janne Halla)
Book Club (Janne Halla)
HOL Quidditch (February Fortescue)
The theme for our upcoming issue is: Unexpected Sunshine
Deadline for submissions: 11:59 PM HOL time on the 31st of October, 2022
So do you have an idea for an article, or maybe even a column? Perhaps you've got a concept for the perfect ad. Or maybe you are just itching to flex your creative muscles with a spot of writing or by creating a work of art. Well, you are in the right place!
Our theme is 'unexpected sunshine' and you can interpret that however you'd like, so actual sunshine and figurative sunshine (like unexpected happiness) are both fair game. Remember that regular articles and submissions don’t need to fit the theme, though it’s great if they do!
Approval
All ideas for informative articles, Wizarding World News, opinion pieces, ads and puzzles must be approved before they are submitted.
If what you want to write needs to be approved, all you have to do is post your idea(s) below and wait for one of the Howler's editors to approve it. It will then be added to the list below. Please be patient though. We will get to you as quickly as possible, but it may sometimes take a while.
Idea Bank
If you don't have any ideas, we have curated an Idea Bank where you can go to find ideas for articles and ads. Please remember that even idea bank ideas have to be presented here for approval though (so we don't suddenly have ten articles on the same topic!).
Creative Showcase
For our creative showcase, we invite you to submit artwork or creative writing that fits the theme somehow. You don’t need to get these ideas approved - you can just start working on them.
For every issue, we give you a prompt to help spark your imagination. For this issue, that prompt is: "The sun broke through the clouds and revealed..." (you can use this as the starting point for a story or the inspiration for an artwork)
Requirements and Submitting
For more information and guidelines on our various sections, what types of submissions you might submit and what the requirements for each one are, please read through the overview thread and then head over to the Guidelines section to learn more.
These guidelines have been updated for the 2022/2023 school year:
1. you may now submit up to 30 points worth of graphics, but only 2 of those can be puzzles.
2. The Creative Contest has been retired and replaced with a simple creative prompt (found above)
Once your idea has been approved, you can send your submission through this form.
We are very excited to hear from you all!
Approved Ideas
Informative Articles
Solar Eclipses (Aura Nightmoon)
Mythology and traditions concerning Halloween from around the world (Pezzie Wolfe)
Sun motifs in vexillology and heraldry + graphic (Janne Halla)
Origins of sayings related to the sun or unexpected happiness + graphic (Janne Halla)
The sun's effects on plants and animals (Beezus Maloy)
Biography of Christa McAuliffe + graphic (February Fortescue)
The sunflower and its cultural importance (Astor Arensin)
The concept of serendipity (Astor Arensin)
Magical creatures that can control weather (Astor Arensin)
Upcoming Movies (Maeve Madden)
The History of Solar Energy (Skylar Peyton)
Biography of Roald Dahl (Skylar Peyton)
News from the Wizarding World
Sunlight Influenced Magic at Hogwarts (Nyx Blue)
Concerning Dragons and Sunlight (Rhaneyra Black)
Opinion/Personal
What brings you random happiness (Pezzie Wolfe)
Puzzles
Visual sudoku (Aura Nightmoon)
Sun themed wordsearch (Aura Nightmoon)
Fallen letters (Silvana Mandeville)
Tents and Trees (February Fortescue)
Crossword (February Fortescue)
Cryptogram (Prof. Sindor Aloyarc)
Jigsaw (Maeve Madden)
Logic Puzzle (Maeve Madden)
Ads
Sunny spells (Aura Nightmoon)
Weather in a bottle (Aura Nightmoon)
Art Department (Silvana Mandeville)
Wizarding Comedy Club (Silvana Mandeville)
Farstrider Wizarding Travel Agents (Janne Halla)
Book Club (Janne Halla)
HOL Quidditch (February Fortescue)
I am going to submit them before the deadline of course!