TERMS AND CONDITIONS: By submitting your work through this program,
you are granting The Good Men Project the rights to edit, publish, and
promote your work. Promotion of your work may include granting
permission to other websites to reprint your work in part or in full.
The work may be re-published on other websites 48 hours
after publication, provided the writer acknowledges any future
reprints with a link to the original post at The Good Men Project. We
will maintain the right to keep your finished post on The Good Men
Project in perpetuity. Contributors understand they will not receive
monetary compensation.
By clicking submit, you also agree to receive emails from The Good Men
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THE GOOD MEN PROJECT SUBMISSION AND STYLE GUIDELINES:
- You will need to submit your post as an attachment (Word doc or
RFT). Include your full name, email address, and date of submission
at the top of the first page. Name the document clearly: Include your
name, the title and the word submission.
- Please include a 2-3 sentence bio and have an author photo uploaded
as a Gravatar [http://en.gravatar.com/]. Let us know the email
attached to the Gravatar account if it is different than the email you
submit with.
- Submissions can be any length. On average, they are 900 to 1,200
words. They can be sent in unsolicited.
- Only on-brand submissions will be considered. We are having a
conversation about what it means to be a man in the 21st century---and
it is wide and varied and mundane and provocative. But for a post
to be considered, it must always must be about, by, for, or focused
on men. (Please note that approximately 20% of our contributors are
women. That's great---we love women's voices. But they write about
men, or sometimes about raising boys who become men.)
- Content standards: Per our editorial guidelines, we will not
accept material that is sexually explicit or contains hate
language/slurs. This includes text, video, and/or photos that are part
of submissions.
- Here are some of the subjects we write about. This is not an
all-inclusvie list, just thought-starters: Sports, Politics, Ethics,
Parenting, Marriage, Arts & Entertainment, Work and Business, Health,
Wellness, Fitness, Mental Heath, Aging, Masculinity, Dating,
Relationships, Travel and Adventure, takes on News Events, OpEds,
Education, Spirituality, Sexuality, Gender Issues. You can also find
out more about what we write about here on our About Page
[http://goodmenproject.com/about/].
- Include a suggested headline and one sentence sub-headline for your
story. Refer to the website for examples.
-You may submit previously published work, put you must include all
appropriate credits and links back to the original.
- Limit paragraph length to three or four sentences. Don't indent
paragraphs.
- Include any relevant photographs at the end of the story, with
captions and photo credit information, if applicable. You must have
permissions or rights to any photos you submit with your stories.
- Insert any hyperlinks in Microsoft Word.
Follow AP Style [http://www.apstylebook.com/] guidelines regarding
numbers, capitalization, abbreviations, and punctuation, with two
exceptions:
- For emdashes, use three hyphens---with no spaces before and after
the dashes, even when using quotation marks---"like this."
- Use "email" instead of "e-mail."
Remember:
- AP Style calls for only one space after a period or colon.
- If you put two spaces between sentences, your submission will be
printed, shredded, and set on fire.
- Numbers under 10, like nine or eight, should be spelled out, except
in the case of ages, like a 5-year-old girl, or a boy, 6.
General Writing Suggestions:
- Be clear; say exactly what you mean.
- Avoid cliches like the plague.
- Never use the word "utilize."
- Avoid beginning sentences with "Look," "Listen," "You see," or
"Now."
- Avoid rhetorical questions.
- Avoid squishy, meaningless adjectives, like "quite," "somewhat,"
and "interesting."
- Here are some good rules for good writing, from George Orwell's
"Politics and the English Language"
[http://www.mtholyoke.edu/acad/intrel/orwell46.htm]: Never use a
metaphor, simile, or other figure of speech which you are used to
seeing in print.
Never use a long word where a short one will do.
If it is possible to cut a word out, always cut it out.
Never use the passive where you can use the active.
Never use a foreign phrase, a scientific word, or a jargon word if
you can think of an everyday English equivalent. PLEASE SEE ALSO OUR
POST: 10 WRITING TIPS IF YOU'RE WRITING FOR THE GOOD MEN PROJECT.
[http://goodmenproject.com/good-feed-blog/10-writing-tips-if-youre-writing-for-the-good-men-project/]
If you are writing a research-based post or are using research to
support any claims you make in a piece:
-Do not use any research behind a paywall. All research used must be
available to the public.
-When linking to a large study, you must include the page number(s)
where the information for the claim you are making comes from.
-When quoting something that links to another study, that study must
also be available to the public.
-When using a source that is questionable or open to bias, you MUST
mention it.