Write for Us

Sidhe Wolf is looking for writers who love these traditions enough to get them right. This is a genuine call for contributors, not a doorway for paid placements — and the difference is the whole point. If you have a folklore story you can source, an essay on the art a tradition inspired, or expertise in a specific language or region, we would like to hear from you.

What we publish

We cover folklore, the art and material culture it produced, and the living cultures that carried it. Pieces we welcome include:

• Deep dives on a specific being, tale, custom, or seasonal rite, properly sourced.
• Essays on how a tradition shaped later art, literature, music, or design.
• Translations and close readings, with the original language alongside.
• Regional and language-specific work — Irish, Scottish Gaelic, Manx, Welsh, Cornish, Breton, Norse, and their neighbours.
• Pieces that correct a widespread misconception, showing where the popular version went wrong.

The sourcing bar

This is where most pitches will succeed or fail, so we are explicit about it. A publishable Sidhe Wolf piece must, following our Sourcing & Attestation policy:

• Name the specific tradition — Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Norse, and so on, never a blanket “Celtic.”
• Date the earliest attestation it can find, and distinguish medieval material from early-modern collection, Victorian revival, and modern invention.
• Flag the nineteenth-century Romantic / Celtic-Twilight layer where it is present, and credit revivers for their additions.
• Name the translation quoted, and note where translators disagree.
• Say “contested” or “we don’t know” where that is the truth, rather than inventing certainty.

Correct spellings, with diacritics, are expected; see our cultural respect policy. Work must be your own and human-written, per our AI content policy.

Positionality on practice content

If your piece touches living or practised tradition, we ask you to state your position — whether you write from inside a tradition, as an academic student of it, or as an interested outsider. All three are welcome; a false neutral voice is not. We do not publish closed or initiatory material as how-to, and pitches that amount to spellbooks or tutorials are not a fit. We write about practice, with sources and boundaries, rather than handing readers someone else’s sacred thing to use.

Rates and credit

We pay contributors for commissioned and accepted work. Because rates depend on length, depth, and the research involved, we agree a fee with you before commissioning rather than posting a flat figure we might not honour; ask when you pitch and we will be straight with you. Accepted pieces carry your byline and, where you wish, a short bio and a link to your own site or work. As the publication grows, our aim is to build a roster of named, credited contributors from within these traditions.

What we will not do — and why this page exists

Sidhe Wolf does not sell placement. To be unambiguous:

• No payment for placement. You cannot pay us to publish an article. Editorial decisions are made on merit and fit alone.
• No paid guest posts. We do not run “guest posts” that are really SEO or PR in disguise, whether money changes hands or not.
• No link insertions. We do not add, sell, or rent links in existing or new articles. Offers to “insert a relevant link” or “update an old post” for a fee will be declined.

This page deliberately replaces the paid-placement pipeline that sites like ours are constantly asked to run. If your email is really a link-building or sponsored-content proposal, please save us both the time. If it is a real pitch from someone who cares about keeping these stories properly, it is exactly what we are here for.

How to pitch

Send a short pitch — the tradition, the story or angle, your main sources, roughly how long, and your position on the material if it touches practice — to [email protected]. A paragraph is plenty; we are reading for care and sourcing, not polish.