Sparkle Stories is Looking for New Voices!
Sparkle Stories is searching for new talent to share with children and their families. We’re looking for original, unpublished stories that reflect the richness of our world.
Our vast library of stories has been created by the talented David Sewell McCann in collaboration with the Sparkle Stories editorial and creative team. His work has been inspiring and entertaining thousands of subscribers for over a decade. We are now seeking new storytellers to share their perspectives, experiences, and imaginations with our listeners, offering more ways for children to see themselves, their families, and our world reflected in our stories. We are looking to highlight diversity, representation, and inclusion.
Who We Are
Parents from around the world choose Sparkle Stories audio stories for their children’s media.
Sparkle Stories brings delight to everyday quiet times. With Sparkle Stories, children and their families can find stories that nurture and celebrate their ideas, creativity, and differences.
Our magic: we operate at a slow, kind, and gentle pace with the aim of creating a slower, kinder, more gentle world. We believe the best way to do that is to create stories that share models for: · How to be kind to others · How to be respectful in thought, word, and deed · How to live in wonder and reverence for this truly incredible world All of our stories reinforce these values.
We want children and families of all backgrounds and experiences to find themselves reflected at Sparkle Stories. We want them to feel welcome, heard, valued, and represented in the stories we share.
Sparkle’s Offer
Selected writers will be offered a contract to create written collections of 3-10 stories, 1100 to 2500 words each, for children ages 3 to 6. (Writers will not be creating the audio recordings of the work.)
Sparkle will pay a flat fee for each project, and will own all content and rights to the work. The author may choose to use their own byline, if they wish.
We want storytelling placed at the forefront of your idea, whether that is through narrative writing or a format that provides a clear structure for the storyteller.
To submit your work:
Before you apply we suggest that you explore our website, listen to some of our stories, and read our mission statement.
Share completed stories or share proposals with sample writing. We are seeking short-form (1100-2500 words) pieces.
Email your work to talent@sparklestories.com
Note: any submission that does not follow these parameters will be rejected without review.
Please do not submit: Auditions for voice over or narrator work Intellectual Property to which you do not have the rights
Compensation
$200 per completed story — this includes first draft and final draft after edits. Each story may include up to two editing passes.
Perks
Sparkle Storytellers get to collaborate with other dynamic creators, get to enjoy exposure of their work to an audience of 23,000+ families, and will have an opportunity to share more of their creations and activities within the social media networks. The work will live in the permanent Sparkle Stories collection and will be featured in all of our outlets (including our newsletter) with links to the creator's website and social media account.
SPARKLE MISSION
Sparkle Stories creates high quality audio stories that are simply told and carefully crafted to be relevant to children’s lives – with both its ups and downs, fun times and challenging times, ordinary days and the extraordinary.
Each Sparkle story contains a small seed of learning about: how to be kind to others, how to be respectful in thought, word and deed, how to love big and live now, how to live in wonder and reverence for this truly incredible world.
Most stories are connected to a tutorial, craft or recipe so the narrative experience does not end with the entertainment, but offers inspiration for further creativity and exploration, and guides children and their parents through real life experiences that deepen the story's lesson, intention and healing impulse.
It's the mission of Sparkle Stories to nourish children through media, not simply entertain them. In this way, we are modeling the transformation of contemporary children's media.
