Submissions

by christopherjamesstone

Please send all submissions to: christopherjamesstone@gmail.com

If possible please include a title and a strap-line (a brief description of the piece) plus a 50 word biography and a head and shoulders photograph of you, the author. You may also wish to include links to your website/Facebook page/email address/X account so that people can contact you.

Please include photographs, preferably your own, to illustrate the piece. If they are not your photos please ensure there are no copyright issues. If you are using a picture from the internet, please do not use the original picture, but take a screenshot instead, and send that. Please include at least one hi res image for the headline picture. Send images separately as jpgs or some other word press compatible format. These include the following:

  • .png
  • .jpg / .jpeg
  • .gif
  • .webp (served automatically in supported browsers)
  • .heic
  • .heif
  • .svg

Please indicate within the text where you want your pictures to go. Whitstable Views likes pictures. They help to break up the text and make it more appealing. They also offer the reader a visual sign to help navigate around the text. Not everyone is a natural reader. Pictures make your story more intelligible to the average person. If you want to include captions, please do.

Please also include links to sources. Use links rather than footnotes. Whistable Views is a news and opinion site, not an academic site. Put your links in brackets after the word you want linked to. Use lots of links as this helps to make the article more visable in the digital realm.

WordPress is YouTube compatible. If you can find a YouTube video to illustrate your point, please include link in the text at the point you want it to be displayed. All that we said about pictures applies to videos too. Videos add charm and colour to your text and help to make the article more enjoyable.

Once your story is published, please share widely on social media, and via email to your friends. It is up to you to make your story a success. The more you share, the more it will be read. We’ve had several viral stories here on Whitstable Views. Let’s make yours another one of them.

Whitstable Views reserves the right to edit the piece to make it more comprehensible to the reader. There is no guarantee that your story will be accepted.

No sexism, racism, or discriminatory material of any kind will be accepted. Our aim at Whitstable Views is to be as inclusive as possible. It is to give everyone a voice.

Also no fiction and no poetry. This is not because we dislike fiction or poetry, but rather because we want to remain primarily a news site. It is good to define the boundaries. There are plenty of sites out there that take fiction and poetry. Whitstable Views is not one of them.

We look forward to reading your material and to publishing it here on Whitstable Views.

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