Submission Guidelines
Articles should be…
- Of local interest, involving Hamilton, Niagara and/or the GTA. Occasionally, pieces of an exceptional standard on Canadian or world current affairs will be published
- About new events/information, or with a new angle or linked to a story already in the news
- 4-800 words long (this includes book and movie reviews)
- Your own work
- Factually accurate, not defamatory (lawyers are expensive)
- Written in Word and submitted as an email attachment (or sent in the body of an email). Images should be sent as JPEG email attachments
- In need of as little editing as possible after submission – spelling, grammar, punctuation, facts, length and layout should all be checked beforehand by the author.
Keep it…
- Concise - Paragraphs should be six sentences maximum, sentences 25 words maximum
- Entertaining – Write “Hot air and cheap promises filled City Hall as candidates convened for the mayoral debate yesterday,” not “A mayoral debate was held at City Hall yesterday”.
- Jargon-free
The small print:
- Please make sure you hold the copyright to your work before submitting it. If it has been previously published, please state where and when
- Images must be the author’s own, or with due credit given to the copyright holder
- The editor reserves the right to edit or abridge pieces, and does not guarantee that all submitted articles will be published
- Authors will be given full credit, but payment cannot currently be made for submitted work