The Journal publishes practical guides for people who make things and need to be found: writers, artists, musicians, designers, film-makers, makers and the people who work with them. If you have done something that worked and can explain how, we would like to hear from you.
What we publish
How-to pieces from practitioners, 800 to 1,500 words. One problem, solved, with the steps in order. How you built a press page that journalists use. How you planned the publicity for a tour of six towns. How you photographed your work for print.
Notes from experience, 600 to 1,000 words. What you tried, what it cost in time, what happened. A number, a date or a before-and-after makes the piece.
Additions to our pitching guides. Each guide in the How to pitch series has a table of publications and their submissions pages. If you edit a publication that takes pitches and it is missing, or if a page we list has changed, tell us. We open the page ourselves, and the table is corrected within a few days.
What we do not publish
Promotion written as advice, articles produced for a link, lists of tools, and anything about a product you sell. A line about you and one link to your own site go at the end of the piece.
How to pitch us
Send the idea before the article: what the piece will help a reader do, why you are the person to write it, and one example of your writing. Three or four sentences are enough. If the piece is already written, say so and paste the first two paragraphs.
Terms
- We reply within two weeks.
- A single contribution is unpaid. For regular contributors and columns we agree a fee.
- Nobody can pay to be published or mentioned in the Journal.
- You keep the copyright. We publish first and keep the piece online; afterwards you may republish it with a line saying where it first appeared.
- We edit for length and clarity and check the facts and links. You see the edited text before it goes out.
