Submissions
If one of the prompts inspires you, you are more than welcome to submit a story.
Here are the general submissions rules:
About Creative Commons We publish this podcast using a Creative Commons licence that allows anyone to copy the audio files and share them with friends and listeners of other podcasts. This, we believe, is the best way to get all our stories circulated to the people who will enjoy them.
The particular licence we use requires anybody copying or broadcasting these works to keep the audio file intact and direct listeners back to 'The Melting Potcast’ website so that listeners have access to contact information about the writers. It also forbids the use of the audio files for commercial purposes.
None of these requirements affect the writers’ ownership rights – stories can be submitted anywhere else by the writers for commercial gain. Indeed, we encourage our writers to do so and are happy to add links that point listeners to buy or download alternative formats of the story.
Here are the general submissions rules:
- We only accept text entries (only *. doc, *.txt or *.rtf attachments (*.rtf are preferred)). Recording will be done by the staff of The Melting Potcast.
- Stoke the Fire submissions may be no more than 1500 words.
- Main Ingredient submissions may be up to 5,000 words.
- Send stories by email to themeltingpotcast@gmail.com. Please include your Prompt # in the subject line of the email.
- Don’t forget to include your name in the email, along with your website/blog/twitter/etc. so we can give you full credit for your story.
- We reserve the right to reject a submission without giving a reason.
- Only submissions by the author himself/herself will be accepted. By submitting you state that you are the author of the story and hold all the rights necessary for publishing on this podcast.
- All rights remain with the author. By submitting a story, contributors agree that the audio version of the story within the podcast will be made available under a Creative Commons licence (by-nc-nd).
- Ensure your story has been edited before submitting it.
- Read it out loud and make sure it makes sense. Give it to someone else to read in case you missed something.
- Spell check!
- We reserve the right to make minor edits on the story, such as spelling, grammar, etc.
- If a story needs many edits or rewrites, we may return them if the story itself is good enough. You will then have until the end of the deadline to edit and re-submit the story.
About Creative Commons We publish this podcast using a Creative Commons licence that allows anyone to copy the audio files and share them with friends and listeners of other podcasts. This, we believe, is the best way to get all our stories circulated to the people who will enjoy them.
The particular licence we use requires anybody copying or broadcasting these works to keep the audio file intact and direct listeners back to 'The Melting Potcast’ website so that listeners have access to contact information about the writers. It also forbids the use of the audio files for commercial purposes.
None of these requirements affect the writers’ ownership rights – stories can be submitted anywhere else by the writers for commercial gain. Indeed, we encourage our writers to do so and are happy to add links that point listeners to buy or download alternative formats of the story.