Thinking about an article for SPT Magazine?
We welcome new contributors: bloggers, feature writers, book reviewers and more.
Before emailing our Editor-in-Chief, Nancy Eichhorn with your ideas, it will help if you have a sense of our publication first.
Here are some guidelines for submitting a query letter to our magazine.
1. Read the first paragraph of many articles, get a feel for their pattern. Do they start with questions? Stories? Personal opinion? Pure data?
2. Let the editor know exactly what the outcome will be after reading your article: In my article (headline or title here), readers will learn__
3. Look at acceptable sources to cite. Note: we adhere to the American Psychological Association (APA) formatting.
4. Quote people if you are doing an interview or find appropriate sources if you are writing about current trends, research, your theory or methodology (peer reviewed literature etc.). If you are making a claim, back it up with recent literature citations, within the past 5 years is best) and/or interviews.
5. Consider titles. We allow long titles and subtitles. Look at the layout. Consider artwork, graphics, charts, lists, drawings.
6. Notice word choices, word usage. We are first person familiar and we avoid jargon. Simple common words work best but at times academic wording is necessary.
7. Imagine the reader, have a sense of who your audience is and write for that audience.
When you submit your query, please include:
- Your proposed headline.
- The lede (a journalistic term for opening paragraph). It needs to be something catchy, or profound, or dramatic, or emotional, or a revelation etc. Offer something relevant enough to create an impact, to grab a reader’s attention and engage the reader in your content
- Ideally a bit of your article, maybe some data (literature) or interviews (or share who you will interview and why) if part of the article.
- One biographical line. Be specific, succinct.
- Contact information
- Name and credentials (if applicable)
- Email address
- Website (if applicable)
- Any social media (if applicable)
MAIL SUBMISSIONS TO: Nancy@NancyEichhorn.com