Submissions to The Morning News

We are constantly looking for new stories; send in yours! But, please note: we do not read submissions sent as attached files. In fact, they are deleted before we even see them. As far as we know, they were never sent. (We have received too many viruses and 30MB files to afford a different policy.) Copy your text and paste it into an email, do not attach any files. We repeat, because people apparently skip this part: if you send a submission as a file attached to an email, it will immediately be deleted and will never reach the editors.

Now that’s been said, we only consider drafts for stories that have not been previously published anywhere else (no, not even on your blog) and are not currently in the submission queue at another publication. Also, we rarely accept personal rants, short fiction, shopping guides, poetry, academic papers, personal diaries, road-trip journals, or short satire pieces about reality TV with nineteen-word titles. Columns like The Non-Expert and Of Recent Note are reserved for our staff members. When people ask us what sorts of articles we’re looking for, our advice everytime is to read back through the last couple weeks of TMN features; like hard-core porn, we're not sure how to define it, but we’ll know it when we see it.

You should include your article by pasting it in an email (no attachments!), plus a brief description of the piece. Please also include contact information (especially your phone number!) and anything you feel we should know (up to you!).

Please note: Due to the volume of submissions, we do not respond to all queries, and unfortunately cannot offer editing services for those articles we do not accept. Also, we would much rather read drafts than pitches, since the standard response to pitches from people we don’t know is: “The idea sounds interesting, but we can’t commit to publishing or development without first seeing a draft.” Ahem.

Should we wish to publish your piece, you must know and acknowledge the following:

—Each story we publish goes through multiple rounds of editing and one round of fact-checking. Writers are expected to work with the editors on revisions, for as many rounds as the editors see fit.

—The Morning News assumes no legal liability whatsoever for the works of its contributors. Writers are wholly, entirely, and solely responsible for all statements in their works, including any opinions, facts, errors, or bad jokes. The Morning News does not support or endorse any statements expressed by its contributors.

—All works submitted to The Morning News must be the sole, original property of the contributor(s), and cannot interfere with any other publication or company’s publishing rights.

—The rights to all works published at The Morning News are owned, everlasting, by the creator of the work. The Morning News makes the claim to preserve a copy of the work in its archives for online publishing. Should the author wish to republish the work elsewhere, we only require that works originally published at The Morning News are noted as such in their reprinted format.

—We cannot pay for writing at this time.

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