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Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous
Welcome Writers and Visual Artists to the Creative Corner!
You have arrived at the Journal creative contribution page.
For those of you who do not already know, the Journal is a bimonthly publication of Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous. It's purpose as set forth in the Twelve Traditions is to serve its readership (Tradition Nine) and carry the message of twelve-step recovery from sex and love addiction (Tradition Five).
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Make an International Difference
We invite you to share your experience with sex and love addiction and your understanding of S.L.A.A. recovery with others worldwide. Any sex and love addict in recovery can contribute their writing or visual art to the Journal.
It's easy. You can upload your creative contribution via www.theSLAAJournal.org or email it to us using the email address below. We accept all common file types. If you cannot type or do not have access to a computer, perhaps someone you know can help you.
Before sending a creative contribution to us, you must read the Creative Guidelines, the Journal Privacy Policy, and the Terms and Conditions below.
Creative Contribution Guidelines
We ask that you include your phone number with your creative contribution, so we can reach you to resolve any ambiguity in meaning. We also request that you include your general location or zip code so we can try to achieve geographical balance in our content. Please also include your name as the author. You may use a pseudonym or pen name for additional anonymity. You can, if you wish, include your last name with your creative contribution, but if your piece is published, we will replace it with your last initial for the purpose of anonymity at the level of public media.
Photographers and other visual artist are asked to contribute visual art as a high-resolution image so that it can be reproduced in the Journal in detail.
Writers are asked to avoid commenting on issues unrelated to recovery from sex and love addiction or engaging in public controversy. It is often best to maintain focus on personal experience. Writings with an appropriate tone for publication in the Journal will proclaim what is good and useful rather than what is wrong or improper. The positive tone will assist readers in the development of a positive outlook toward personal growth and recovery.
Just as professional writers often rewrite their pieces several times to avoid placing the burden of correcting spelling and grammar on the editorial staff, we ask amateur writers to also read what they have written and rewrite it until their ideas are expressed clearly.
Thrift is also important. Don't say in many words what could be said in a few.
All creative contributions must include citations for any references or excerpts that legally require attribution.
We ask that writers and visual artists do not use the Journal or Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous by name as a professional reference or credential. Public disclosure of membership in S.L.A.A. is expressly discouraged by S.L.A.A.'s Traditions Eleven and Twelve.
Journal Privacy Policy
Click here for the Journal Privacy Policy.
Terms and Conditions
The 1989, 1990, and 1991 General Service Conferences of Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous adopted motions that established the Journal. These charter statements indicate the purpose of the Journal to be the growth of the S.L.A.A. fellowship and its individual members. Because traditionally our common welfare comes first, the Journal selects material is based on its understanding of the application of this purpose at the time of selection. No guarantees of publication are expressed or implied. Creative contributions may be edited for readability and appropriateness prior to publication. Through the act of sending a creative contribution to the Journal, writer and visual artists waive their rights to financial compensation in association with the contribution and grant all such rights to the Journal. All creative contributions that are published are protected under the copyright of the unit of publication in which said contributions are initially included.
Making a Creative Contribution
Click here for the creative contribution upload page, or you can send your creative contribution as an attachment sent to this email address.
Theme Schedule
Priority may be given to submissions related to one of these upcoming themes. This schedule represents the current plan for themes, but is subject to change based on the content of submissions, feedback from the readership, or any evident change in the needs of the S.L.A.A. community.
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January-February 2010 | Renewing Relationships in Recovery |
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March-April 2010 | Boundaries |
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May-June 2010 | Step Four |
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July-August 2010 | Service |
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September-October 2010 | Joys of Recovery |
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November-December 2010 | The Year's Accomplishment |
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January-February 2011 | Recovery from Isolation in Addiction |
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March-April 2011 | Recovery from Fantasy |
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May-June 2011 | Power in Surrender |
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July-August 2011 | Practicing a Positive Sobriety |
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September-October 2011 | Emotional Anorexia |
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November-December 2011 | Spirituality in Recovery |