Thanks for your interest in the submission guidelines. Ideally, we look for articles in journalistic style (news or feature), but have been making exceptions as the content warrants. We reserve the right to edit for length, clarity and content, and we reserve the right to determine when a particular submission may appear (it might not be used for an immediate issue but for an upcoming issue - up to a few issues away). If a submission is not going to be used immediately, we will notify the author. We try publish within the first half of every month and prefer to receive submissions a week or 2 before publication in most cases so that articles can be proofed and edited if necessary, but again, exceptions can be made. Authors retain all rights to their submissions.

As we publish to a website, length is not as important as in hardcopy print (within reason, of course).

As the official stance of the ATA is to neither encourage nor discourage certification, but rather support education, we don't publish articles that are written to support certification over not being certified or vice versa.  We DO publish articles that are written by both certified and non-certified authors when they write about subjects other than certification.

Submission Suggestions:

Tarot Book and Deck Reviews
Oracle Book and Deck (or whatever form it is in) Reviews 
Foreign decks
Creating Decks and Oracles
Non-standard Tarot Decks
Different uses of Tarot - spells, rituals, and meditations, arts/crafts, decorating, etc.
Tarot for special occasions
Tarot and other oracles
Tarot art/pictures/graphics
Tarot around the world
Spreads
Methods for spread reading
Interviews
Events and community
Business
Cartoons, games, and other fun things
ANYTHING spiritual/metaphysical

Please double-check grammar and spelling before submitting. Graphics should be JPG images and should be included with submission along with permission by owner/creator of graphics (if not own) and not from one of the more well known publishers.

Deck Review Basics - 300 words and up

We publish reviews that are honest, but also positive and respectful.  It isn't that we want to "sugar coat" anything but we have a diverse audience and what doesn't work for one person may be perfect for another. You can not like something without calling it crap.

The purpose of a review is to give someone who might be interested in the deck you are writing about important information so they could decide whether they want the deck or not. That said, include author, the full name of the deck, the publishing company, and ISBN number, the illustrator/artist. Include the names of the suits, the titles for the court cards, the numbering for Strength and Justice, and the titles for the Majors, if they are non-traditional.  Indicate whether the Majors are numbered and if The Fool is numbered also.

Include information about the cards: size, quality (laminated, sturdy card stock, flimsy etc), a description of the back of the cards, whether the back are reversible (i.e. would the reader know if a card was drawn in the upright or the reversed position simply by looking at the back of the card), a description of the front (placement of title, etc.), if borders were used or not, any text that appears on the cards, art style and predominate colors. 

Highlight or discuss cards from deck that you are drawn to, or that stand out. Are any cards disturbing or don't work for you? Talk about style, color, whether RWS clone - or what makes it different. Talk about what works and what doesn't from an objective viewpoint.

Discuss the LWB or companion book if the deck has one.  Summarize the spreads if there are any included.  Does the author suggest a specific technique for reading with the deck?

Be objective, but put your stamp on it. Include a separate file of scanned card images (the ones you talked about) and box, etc. if you can.  Include information on author's website, other works, etc., also so I can include those with the review. Please include any images of cards or other graphics you would like to have included in the review, along with info on whether it is okayed by the publisher or creator to use the images.