grubstreet.ca is an on-line source of ideas, where new ideas flourish and older ideas get a second wind. grubstreet.ca aims to be the destination of choice for opinions, comments, analyses, commentaries and reviews that expand-on and influence social life and social relations, across the world, as well as new, short fiction.
Click for more about the grubstreet.ca mission. Click to see the home page. Click to see a sample content page. For more examples of the writing intended for grubstreet.ca, click here.
grubstreet.ca is
for readers, writers and other thinkers. Site
distractions are minimal. Advertising is limited to
the black-line banner, which tops most pages.
grubstreet.ca
encourages submission of opinion, op-ed and
comment articles as well as analyses and reviews of
all sorts, movies, music, books or television, and
short fiction. Submissions of 350 to 750 words are
recommended, but any length item is welcome.
Fiction submissions may be 3,000 words or longer.
Please read the
content submission guidelines,
then
submit your words to the
editor.
Be clear,
grubstreet.ca
doesn't have to agree with your ideas to post
your writing. Yes,
grubstreet.ca
is a liberal, middle
of the road site, but we post ideas quite contrary to our own.
Stay with us and see. As repeated elsewhere on the site, we hope
to air a range of ideas, not just our own. The only ideas
not accepted involve pornography, promulgation of hate and
the advocacy of violence. See the
content submission guidelines.
grubstreet.ca
reads all submissions, as promptly as possible,
which can mean up to four weeks. If you haven't heard from
us in a month, query the
editor. Every effort will be made to publish your submission.
If
grubstreet.ca
publishes your submission, we'll try to e-mail
notify you
prior to posting.
grubstreet.ca invites everybody to share
their ideas with our readers. Read the site, yourself.
Wonder about the ideas you read. Mull these ideas. Decide what
you think. Coming up with your own ideas is always best, and
the most fun. Then tell us about your
ideas.
Any relevant topic is okay; contemporary or historical; fact
or fiction. No advocacy of hate, violence or unlawful acts.
Appreciate the difference between explaining and promoting.
Do a lot of the former and none of the latter, when it comes
to hate, violence or unlawful acts.
Write 650 to 900 words; more, if you wish. The only
limit is common sense. What needs to be stated to make your
point? Submissions should be as long as necessary and as short
as possible.
grubstreet.ca will help you express yourself. Draft your idea, e-mail to our editor and we'll take it from there. If it needs work, we'll get to it, asap, and let you see the revisions before we post, if you like. If you don't like how it turns out, tell us and we'll pull it, asap.
If you can't type, write. Don't like pens, use a pencil or crayons. If you prefer not to write, record and send us a MP3 or wav file. Call, if you don't wanna record or write, and we'll try to arrange phone dictation. grubstreet.ca readers want to know about your ideas, and we'll do everything we can to ensure they do.
Think and write to be read. Read your submission
out loud before e-mailing it to us. That's old advice, and
it works.
Relatively brief sentences are a good idea, and one idea per
brief paragraph. You've got stuff to say, valid comments to
offer and insights to share. Do it!
We'll post it or help you make it postable.
You must put your name on your words; this is not a blog, so
no aliases.
Fee for writers: the eternal gratitude of
grubstreet.ca readers. If you need a
tangible reward for writing, we'll take our cue from Dick Summer.
Summer awards his listeners, who correctly answer a skill testing
question, a scoop of peanut butter; if the question is especially
hard, he makes it nutty peanut butter.
grubstreet.ca will include a spoon,
plastic, of course, this is a low-budget website, to hold your
scoop of peanut butter.
To paraphrase Jack Kerouac, go forth and get writing.
For more information, e-mail the
editor.
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26 September 2007