Guest Blogging

Do you have an article that you would like to share about writing, editing, publishing, marketing, or the things you have learned along the way? We would love to hear from you.

The Canterbury Writers Blog is open to guest blog submissions. Articles are nominally of the length between 400 and 1000 words. Topics could include the basics of writing, tricks in editing and publishing, advice for marketing books, and even self-reflective stories about some of the things that you have learned during your journey as a writer.

If you have a blog post idea that you feel would be suitable for the Canterbury Writers Blog, please contact us using the contact form below. Include 1–2 sentences about your post and why you feel our site would be best suited for your article.

For advice on how to pitch a blog post, check out this blog post.

Topics we are particularly interested in

Topics of interest include, but are not limited to:

  • tricks for writing a strong plot, characters, and setting;
  • elements of craft that might be unique to a specific genre;
  • the legalities of copyright, trademark and contracts;
  • keeping the momentum in writing practices;
  • how can we nurture young and new writers in the community;
  • articles about your publishing and writing experience;
  • building Author brands and your author platform;
  • mental health and writing;
  • and exercise and writing.

What we will not publish

We are NOT interested in the following:

  • Pure self-promotion that offers no insights or useful information about writing or publishing
  • Instant NO to articles on "how to grow your online business".
    • Please stop pitching these articles to us. If you have pitched yet another CRM or some other online business article, we will not respond. It's an instant NO!

We reserve the right to insist on a minimum standard of grammatical correctness for all articles submitted to us.

What you get?

We do pay our guest bloggers by way of a small gift card to Amazon, Coffee Culture, Robert Harris, Whitcoulls, or the like. However, we do not pay for author interviews or book reviews.

All contributors retain rights to their articles, so you may seek to have the article published elsewhere at any time.

An author's bio, a profile photo, and links to your personal work will be included as part of the post. If you don't have a bio, that's okay. Just contact us, and we can put you in touch with someone who can help you put one together.

Be advised that any images supplied with your post must be copyright free or have a copyright release attached. If no images are supplied, then the site administrator will source suitable images to accompany your post. Once a post is made public, it will not be removed, except at the discretion of the site administrator.

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