Are you an aspiring writer who loves Downingtown and Exton, food and/or local fun?
Downingtown Dish is looking for local authors to submit restaurant reviews, event articles, recreational tidbits and other “fun” local information for use as content on the site. Submissions need to relate to or be pertinent to Downingtown/Exton area themes. Submissions (including photographs) are non-compensated, although we are happy to include a credit and/or photo caption if desired.
Article Submission Guidelines
1. What “Submitting” an Article Means: We will promise to read your article, but we may respectfully decline it and not publish it, or save it and publish it in the future. We also reserve the right to edit, shorten, or revise your article. Most of the time we contact authors about this ahead of time and get their comments, corrections, etc. When you submit your article, news or photo, etc. please include a caption (if applicable) and credit name(s) or tell us if you prefer to be published without a credit.
2. Getting Permission Ahead of Time: Please send the article only when you have permission from anyone you need it from, such as anyone included in the article. It’s difficult for us to get all set to run an article only to find that the author’s fellow community members say no at the last minute.
3. Publication Rights (Sorry! We aren’t budgeted to pay for articles): If your article, poem or recipe appears in Downingtown Dish, you are welcome to publish the article elsewhere. Downingtown Dish does not hold rights to the articles you submit.
4. Photos (Sorry! We aren’t budgeted to pay for photos): If you are a photographer and would like to submit relevant work, please email digital photos or snapshots of people and/or community happenings or locations. If you are the author of an article, you may also submit a relevant photograph or image to illustrate your story. Please include a caption or description of the photograph. Please indicate if the photograph or image is your own or if you have permission to use the image from the originating artist. We will assume that any people in your photos have already given you permission to appear in Downingtown Dish. If you think this will be a problem, please take care of it before sending us photos.
Photos can be vertical or horizontal, black & white or color. We cannot accept hard copy photographs. Photos from a website will also work. File formats can be JPGs, GIFs or PDFs. If you would like to submit an article but cannot supply photos, that’s fine.
We look forward to community contribution to this local resource, and although we wish we could publish everyone, we hope you’ll understand if we’re not able to include your submission. If we are going to include your article, we’ll do our best to notify you ahead of time, so please include your current contact information.
Please submit relevant articles to: [email protected]
