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Guidelines
for Submissions
The
Bay Area Women’s Directory Website will publish a limited
number of articles each month, to be written primarily by local,
professional writers who cover a number of subjects of interest to
women in the Tampa Bay area. Articles that are accepted will run for
one month. No payment is offered and you may simultaneously or at a
later date publish your work elsewhere, with credit given to the Bay
Area Women’s Directory Website for first running the article
and the date it ran.
Please
query first if your work is not known to us. We accept
queries for feature articles and columns. Your query should include
a specific description of your story idea, your qualifications to
write it, and a sample of previously published work. You may submit
a narrative for “Voices” in its entirety. If you are not
familiar with our signature column “Voices,” please request a
few previously published columns to review.
How to
Submit
E-mail
your article as an attachment in Microsoft Word. Include at the end
of your article your name, address, phone number, and e-mail
address. We will notify you of acceptance, consideration or
rejection as quickly as possible. Article not to be used will not be
sent back, but they will be deleted from our system at the same time
we notify of rejection. All manuscripts are subject to editing;
editing changes will be sent to the author for her approval before
publication.
To
be considered for publication, articles must meet the following
standards:
Spacing:
Single space text. Use one character space at the end of a
sentence. Use 11- or 12-point type, Times, Times New Roman, or
Ariel. Indent first line of paragraphs .3-.5 inch.
Spelling/Punctuation:
Use first spelling listed in Webster’s New International or a
comparable dictionary. Do not bold or use all caps (unless in a
business’s logo/name). Do italicize book titles and names of films
and plays. When using a dash, make sure it is a dash and not a
hyphen. A good guide for style (capitalization, abbreviations,
punctuation, spelling, numerals and usage) is The Associated
Press Stylebook and Libel Manual or The Chicago Manual of
Style.
Send
requests, queries or articles to
info@bayareawomensdirectory.com
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