Submit to Our Blog

What we’re looking for

The Northwest Editors Guild is currently seeking original and unpublished submissions for our 2023 blog. We are interested in fresh, elevated content that covers topics related to editing and writing. This is a great opportunity to share your expertise with other editors and potential clients in an established professional forum! We credit our writers and link to their websites, so anyone reading your article will know how to reach out if what you’ve written strikes a chord.

We are not interested in self-promotional submissions. Please review our past blog entries to get a good idea for the tone and quality expected by the Guild.

We are always looking for articles about the different kinds of editing, how-to’s on writing and editing better, and special-interest stories like upcoming events and conferences! If it’s about writing or editing, or if it’s something a writer or editor would want to read, we want to see it! If you’re not sure if your article is a good fit, just ask. The blog team is very friendly.

If you have an idea that’s too big for our 500 to 1,000 word range, consider pitching a column! A column includes at least three articles to be published once a month. All you need to get started is a one-page outline and your first completed article.

Our current theme

As the weather heats up and restrictions start to loosen, many of us are starting to go on hikes and explore the great outdoors. We are currently accepting polished, previously unpublished articles on getting back into nature until June 30th. If you’ve written something about nature and writing/editing, we’d like to see it.

How to submit your blog piece

All submissions should be uploaded electronically, in MS Word (no PDFs), to the form at the bottom of this page.

Entries should be 500-1,000 words in length, and written in a clear, clean copy, with no tabs or double spaces between paragraphs, and an author bio and photo should also be submitted. Please include all hyperlinks in your submission; for information on how to insert hyperlinks into MS Word, please refer here.

In order to help us keep track of whose pieces are whose, please be sure that the file name for your blog piece and author image follow the following format: AuthorName_TitleKeyword.docx and AuthorName_Photo.jpg.

So, for example, if your name were Parenthesis Jones and you were submitting a piece about how to use Excel to keep track of character names and other details over a trilogy of books, you would name your blog piece file ParenthesisJones_Organization.docx, and your author photo would be named ParenthesisJones_Photo.jpg.

Please note that while while we will not make content edits to post (copyediting only), we may tweak titles to improve SEO.

Formatting

Please be aware that, if accepted, your piece will be posted on our blog with our website’s standard formatting and header styles, so it may not appear exactly as it does on your Word document. We will do our best to retain the intent, if not the specific style.

As a general rule, we can display

  • Normal bullets

  • Accents and special characters

  • H3 and H4 headers (H2 is used only for page titles, and H1 is not used)

  • Simple columns

  • Charts or graphs as images

We cannot accurately display

  • Tabbed paragraphs

  • Text in more than three columns

Author bio guidelines

  • 350 character limit

  • Include up to three links to social media and professional website if applicable

  • Include a clear headshot or photo that represents yourself, 100x100 to 500x500 pixels, JPG or PNG format

Please allow up to four weeks before we respond to submissions. If your article is selected for publication, then it is your responsibility to review any feedback and send back a ‘clean’ version of the article. Please be aware that formatting may be changed to reflect the style of the blog. For further questions, contact our blog coordinator at blog@edsguilds.org.