Catness Submission Guidelines
What you need to know
Subject Matter
The subject here is Cats. So any stories or poems about cats, personal experiences, fiction, etc., or cat photographs or artwork *are welcomed.
What we want is personal stories/poems about your cat or cats.
- Even though the story is about your own kitty, if you are making statements regarding cat breed, health matters or diet in your story, you must provide links to your information sources. (Just saying you found it on Google will not do.) In the event that you are using a hardcopy book or article to support your references, please supply the name of the book, the author and the ISBN number. If possible, provide a link to a book seller source for the book.
Here are two examples of personal stories published in Catness:
From
about her new catFrom John Fuller about Tigs
- Catness is neutral, so we do not publish anything political.
- We do not publish stories of an explicit or disturbing nature.
- We no longer publish articles giving advice about pet care, diet, training, or breed specific information. You should consider submitting to one of the many other Medium publications. Here is one that I know of: PetTalks https://medium.com/pet-talks, which accepts this type of article.
Unpublished Drafts
- We no longer publish previously published material. Please submit your story as an unpublished draft.
Images
We understand that you may not always have a photo of your kitty, but if you do, we prefer that you submit your own in place of something from a free photo site such as Unsplash or Pixabay. One reason is that those photos are often used by many and the best ones are seen repeatedly.
Please only submit images and text to which you own the copyright, or make sure you give the correct attribution to the originator (example, if you are writing an article about cats and are using specific images from another person or publication, make sure you include a link to the originator and a text attribution “photo by Joe Blow” or “Excerpted from an article by Joe Blow, published in (name of publication) with a link to the the original piece.
It is helpful if you submit photos at the highest resolution possible for optimal display on Medium.
- horizontal mages work best for your story feature image.
- We do not publish images of an explicit or disturbing nature.
Special Note Regarding Submissions
Duplicate Content
Medium does not allow posting duplicate content, whether from a single account or across multiple accounts, either publicly or as an unlisted story. — Medium Rules
So, if your story has already been published to another publication on Medium, we cannot accept it, or we will get into a lot of trouble.
We only accept unpublished drafts, not work already published to your own profile. See note above.
This works in your favour because if you offer us a story previously published, at an earlier date, it will be listed according to the original date of publication. If this is an older story, say from a few weeks previous, it “slips” back in the story positions. We discovered this by accident when searching for a submission that we had just published, and not seeing it at the “top”. Medium goes by the original date of publication.
Links to other sites
We don’t mind if you put the “subscribe to articles by (author)” link at the end of your articles, but we do not like links that go to commercial sites, or commercial articles. We get that you may want to market yourself, but please not overtly in articles you submit here.
Links to articles on How To Submit a Draft
https://help.medium.com/hc/en-us/articles/213904978
https://medium.com/p/790a6808ffe5/
Become a Writer
Just add a comment in the comments section for this article, or, email me at wezel2@gmail.com and please, if you do not get a reply within a week — email me again.
*Photographs and artwork featuring cats can also be submitted to my art publication, ALFEW
