Writer's Guidelines

Thank you for your interest in writing for The Old Schoolhouse^® Magazine (TOS), a publication of The Old Schoolhouse^® Magazine, LLC. TOS is available by subscription. TOS has acquired a valued reputation as the publication homeschoolers can trust.

Please query us with a well-structured article proposal that includes a catchy lead, a summary of the article (including approximate length and sidebar ideas), and appropriate details. Users of HomeschoolBlogger.com should note their usernames on their query. Links to clips and portfolios are of assistance as well.

All query and other submissions are subject to the Terms of Submission posted on our website. Query letters should be submitted electronically using the forms provided on our website. We strongly discourage multiple submissions of query letters (sending the same query to several publications at once). Queries to TOS should be written specifically for our publication.

Below is a list of the themes and special features for each 2012 issue of The Old Schoolhouse^® Magazine. If you would like to contribute an article about any of these topics, or you would like to suggest additional topics that you would like to write about, please use the Query Submission button at the bottom of this page to share your ideas with the TOS editorial staff.

• Gardening
• Great Literature
• Geography
• Special Feature: Homeschooling Outside of the U.S.

• Field Trip/Travel
• Elementary Grades
• Grandparents and Homeschooling
• History
• Special Feature: Titanic

• Spring Cleaning
• Homeschooling Only One Child
• Special Needs
• Photography
• Computer Science (Technology)

• Learning Through Nature
• Outdoor Fun
• Artists/Art History
• Special Feature: Ice Cream

• Preparing for the New School Year
• Adoption
• Community Resources for Homeschoolers
• Foreign Language
• Special Feature: Notebook Keeping & List Making

• Homeschooling on a Budget
• Homeschool Grads
• Special Needs
• Raising Healthy Kids
• Grammar
• Special Feature: Hobby Farms

• Entrepreneurs
• Bulk Food Preparation
• Home Ec
• Special Feature: Hospitality

• Special Needs
• Struggling Readers
• Homeschool Dads
• Science in the Kitchen
• Special Feature: The Electoral College

• Activities to Teach Godly Character
• Heroes of Faith
• Composers
• Teaching Gifted Children
• Music
• Special Feature: The Amish

• College Prep
• Higher Education
• Spelling & Phonics
• Special Feature: Scholarships & Saving Money for College

We will acknowledge receipt of your query and attempt to make a decision to accept or decline the proposed article as quickly as possible. The review process normally takes between four and six weeks, but may be longer at times. Our editors will contact you if we decide to accept a queried article. Publication of accepted materials may take from three months to more than a year based on our needs and publication schedule. Terms of publication vary based on article length and content.

At TOS, we slate authors' work for future issues as far in advance as possible, sometimes as much as two years before the issue will be published. Therefore, if you are interested in submitting a query, please do so immediately, so that your query may be carefully reviewed and considered prior to upcoming submission deadlines.

An expanded Guidelines for Writers, which provides a variety of detailed information for TOS authors and potential authors, is available here.

"Click here to submit a query."