Our audience 
Our audience is primarily Lutheran women — young, older, and in-between, career women, students, mothers, volunteers, those active in the Women of the ELCA and those not, single, married, divorced, widowed, liberal, conservative, and moderate. Our readership is a diverse group with a variety of lifestyles and interests. Women who are members of our full–communion partner churches (Moravian, Episcopal, Presbyterian Church (USA), Reformed Church in America, United Church of Christ) also read the magazine.

Queries about time–sensitive topics should be submitted at least seven months in advance (for example, a query about a Christmas article should be submitted in May.)

LWT receives many queries and unsolicited manuscripts; because of this volume, we cannot acknowledge them when they are received. We will contact you if we are interested in your work.

Please know that most of what we publish is assigned — we ask particular established authors to write on specific themes far in advance of publication. We publish very few articles that originated as unsolicited manuscripts or queries. Those we do accept meet our requirements, as outlined below.

• follow the theme of that issue or the Bible study (see below)
• are from Christian women. (Though we accept queries from men.)
• include stories about women or reflections that especially speak to women.
• use inclusive language.
• reflect specifically Lutheran or generally mainline Christian theology.
• have a spiritual basis.
• discuss issues important to women and relate those issues to the Christian faith.
• offer first rights.

When quoting Scripture, indicate which translation you are using. LWT prefers the New Revised Standard Version (NRSV). Do not depend on memory even when quoting your favorite Bible verse.

We must have full publication information (author, title, page number of quoted text; place of publication, publisher, and date of publication) for any books, articles, or hymn texts cited. We discourage the use of footnotes; please use in-text citations.

Rights
LWT usually purchases one–time, first rights; we prefer to print original articles that have not been published elsewhere.  Copyright remains with author.

Second rights (when the work has been previously published) are purchased only rarely. If you are offering second rights, please give the name and date of the publication in which the work first appeared.