We want to make sure every story is readable by our audience and that the core message has the best opportunity to shine through. As your stories are reviewed by our editorial team, please keep these guidelines in mind.
CLARITY
The most important thing for any story is to offer clarity for the reader. Most stories will be conversational in tone, but should be easy for a reader to follow without having to read back or forward in the story for more context. Edits may be made for purposes of clarity or flow.
LENGTH
Stories should be at least 100 words to be featured. Stories will be considered into the thousands of words, but anything past 2500 words will likely be split into two or more parts.
STRUCTURE
Stories should follow a regular paragraph structure, with occasional deviations for specially-written stories to have multiple line breaks. Refer to pieces in NY Mag, The Atlantic, and other essay-style format publications. Editors will be keeping an eye out for run-on sentences and sentence fragments as well.
CONTENT RESTRICTIONS
We encourage you to express yourself fully, and some stories may include information describing graphic and difficult events. However, please keep explicit language and any graphic descriptions of sex or violence to a minimum.
IMAGES
Our editing team will select appropriate images to accompany the stories. If you have a particular image you’d like to include, please attach it to your story with an explanation of where it should fit and why. Images will be optimized for sharing and display.
EXAMPLES
These stories are good examples to follow on tone, style, and flow:
http://agaytale.com/i-told-him-i-loved-him/
http://agaytale.com/i-was-the-bully/
http://agaytale.com/not-myself-tonight/
QUESTIONS
Questions? Shoot us an email at agaytale.com.