Call for Subscriber Writing, June 2024

It’s time for our bimonthly call for subscriber writing! Please submit your responses here. Deadline for this month is Sunday, June 16th, at 10 PM EST. At that time I will disable the ability to submit new responses in the form until the next call, so get your submissions in on time. If you’re an old hand at this, you can click over to the form and submit your work and safely close this email. If you’re new to this, please read the submission information below to help us all out. The form does not as yet take formatting, so please just enter the email that is associated with your subscription in the email field, then put your information in the next field, like so:

Name or Pseudonym, Title of Your Work - link 

Synopsis of your work of one or two (at most!) sentences

It should look something like like this: 

Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island - https://treasureisland.luv

A rip-roaring tale of pirates, treasure, and adventure on the high seas

I will do the formatting myself. I should have that part automated by next time.

Non-subscribers, if you want to take advantage of this forum to share your work, you know what to do.

This call will go out and the form will be opened the second Wednesday of every other month, the submission deadline will be end of day the following Sunday, and the post will be run a week from the call date on the third Wednesday of every other month.

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For those who are new, let me take a moment to let you know what this is all about, reiterate what it isn’t, and make a much-needed reminder of the format. As a regular feature, I present an opportunity for paying subscribers to share some of their writing with my mailing list of ~55,000 readers, free and paid. This is a subscriber perk, and it’s also something I really love to do because I’m very passionate about writing and writers and want to help people who are trying to build an audience. I emphasize that this is for sharing subscriber writing, not your podcast, your Twitch stream, or your Instagram. One thing that I have to reiterate here is that this is an opportunity to link to writing that’s already hosted elsewhere; it’s not, as some people assume, an opportunity to actually post your work here. If you’re looking for someplace to host your writing, why not start a free Wordpress or Substack, or use another blogging or newsletter service? Then you can link your work here.

I’ve now had dozens of readers tell me that they meaningfully expanded their audience through this service before, and several pieces that were posted here have gone on to be published elsewhere else, in some form.

If I messed up previously and promised to include your entry in a later edition, please respond to this email to remind me! If you submitted something before the submission period began, submit it again! Don’t forget to use the Google Form! If you don’t follow instructions, I have no sympathy if I fail to include you. I look forward to seeing what you come up with.