Submission Guidelines
[Updated 29 September 2024]
Welcome!
Below you will find some guidelines on how to submit to our publication.
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Your body of work is still a part of Medium and is subjected to their terms, but if you submit to New North you join a community of writers and readers who enjoy both fiction and poetry.
Your work should be original and not plagiarised, including the media you associate with your submission. If the media is not yours credit the source and provide the link to the media. Your work should be original and not published elsewhere, with the exception of two posts maximum published on Medium before.
Formatting and Presentation
Presentation plays a big part to your work being accepted. Submissions should be presented properly, with good formatting and above decent proofreading. The header image should be in context, your paragraphs clean, and spelling on point. By default, any post must have a header image that is properly credited— a few exceptions are given to stylistic choices, but this should be kept at a minimum.
Poetry should have lines for verses, a clear heading and image.
Tags should also be included in the submission and this is a priority since you would not want a wrong tag to be included in your post that you did not want to. As you may have guessed, if you don’t include a tag with your post. The editors will choose one they feel would go well with the context.
Submission Days
On a normal week, posts are published on a deadline of two days, hours even in a good week. Mondays, Wednesdays and Saturdays are dedicated to publishing. Posting before stated days means your post can have time to be reviewed and can also be published first. In the case that a post goes for long without being published a number of things may have happened.
- The Editors may have not received the post, or the post may have been lost in the sea of notifications. In this case, reaching out can help. Leaving a note with a tag will notify the Editors (a feature for tagging on Medium is putting the @ symbol then typing the username for the account you wish to tag).
- There is some backlog to go through before posts can be published. A small note will be included on the publication where this is the case.
- The publication might be on a break. In this case, an email is sent to followers to notify when the publication is not publishing any posts.
Submitting a post
To submit a post, send a profile link and the link to the post you want submitted to newnorthmedium@gmail.com. If you are already included as a writer, that means choosing the publication on the editor window in the post.
Looking forward to having your post with us! Can’t wait to see what you have and feel free to join other writers on your creative journey!
