Just Say It Submission Guidelines

You have something to say, we’d love you to say it here

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We’re glad you’re here. Below are our general submission guidelines. We reserve the right to change these guidelines at any time as we see fit. We also may sometimes publish pieces that do not meet every guideline or decline to publish pieces that do.

General submission guidelines

1. We accept only unpublished drafts.
2. We only publish pieces written by Medium Partners. These are behind a paywall and this ensures our writers make money from their pieces. These must comply with all Partner Guidelines, Curation Guidelines, Medium’s Rules, and Medium’s Ad-Free Policy.
3. We accept only unique pieces and will not accept any work that has been plagiarized or violates copyright laws. We have a zero-tolerance policy for plagiarism and will remove any writer found to violate this rule.
4. Please proofread and if necessary run your work through editing software such as Grammarly or the Hemingway App to ensure spelling and grammar mistakes are kept to a minimum.
5. Make sure that titles, subtitles, and headings/subheadings are in the appropriate format without trailing punctuation.
6. Format, Format, Format … see this example for what we expect.
7. Source, Source, Source! Include source material and offer links to back up what you’re saying. Unless you are an expert in the field you are writing about, or writing a strict opinion piece, in both cases we want that stated and proven within the article.
8. Have a Call to Action — your article should include something that tells the reader what they can do to embody the point of the article.
9. Once a piece is published in Just Say It, writers are free to share the link outside the publication or to re-publish the piece on personal blogs or pages outside of Medium. This publication does not hold ownership over the author’s works. We do ask that you do not remove a piece from the publication and that it not be published elsewhere on Medium.
10. Remember, you make money when members read your pieces on Medium so we believe it’s best to send people to the publication to read your piece. Also our goal is both to change the world and help the people doing it get buy so we’re more likely to publish authors who bring in readers to the publication because that helps all of us.

Style & Voice

Make it your own. We are not looking for formal writing that meets every standard of proper form. We want to hear your words, in your voice.

Images

It is very important to give credit to all the images used!

If an image enhances your story, use it. We’ll let you know when we review your story if we think you’ve used too many or too view images. A good rule of thumb is to have at least one image between the subtitle and the main body of your work, like this.

Now you know what to do, here’s HOW to do it

Send an email to jen@jeniferpayne.com with your Medium URL and a link to an unsubmitted draft that you believe fits our Publication and meets our Guidelines.

Then wait, but not more than a week. If I haven’t gotten back to you within 5 days, it’s likely I won’t be publishing your piece. Most of the time I will at least reply with some type of feedback, but since it’s just me, I can’t always promise that.

If you have any questions that I don’t answer here, feel free to email me at the above address. I really look forward to reading and sharing your work.