We Invite You to Become Our Writer — Be Open Submission Guidelines
You don’t have to be a great writer or super perfect human to contribute here. I believe everyone can become inspirator for others even from their vulnerability.
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📢 Announcement!
Thank you for your interest contributing to Be Open publication as writer.🙏
For the time being, we are not accepting new writer requests.
👉However, you can still join Be Open Reading Club (our read for read group).🤓👍⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
So, You are invited now! If you you are interested to join the club and connect with our 100+ members, you can write a comment: “Yes, I’m in”
You can also reply this invitation with a private note or email to: [email protected]
You can learn about the club and read the testimonials here:
Hello, Shayens here! Welcome to Be Open, a publication where people can publish their stories and feelings about anything; relationship, nature, sexuality, life and many more from real and honest perspective, so that readers can explore the reality of human.
As carrying the theme of ‘be open’, this publication’s motto is: Write in just the way you are. It’s okay to be imperfect. Don’t worry to be different. We all respect your opinions.
So based on it, we open submission for new writers and wish to give them an equal chance to show their stories.
It’s okay your writing is plain as long as having really good idea, has clear message and useful for readers. I tolerate a few grammar mistakes or limited vocabulary. And, I think our readers will understand us too.
Of course we’re open for experienced writer or person blessed with perfection (capable to write well-writen stories, good mental health or has so much great experiences in life) to share their knowledge and give advises through writing.
So here, whether you’re a top writer or a budding writer, it doesn’t matter. Here in Be Open, everyone gets a same opportunity to be accepted as a contributor and to appear on our front page.
What does our ‘Be Open’ mean?
In simple words it means: To open up and Being open to. To make it clear, here're its wider meaning:
- If you’re a non native English with limited vocabulary and grammar, also if you feel not expert enough in writing, don’t worry for that, we just would love to hear your stories. But of course I don’t bluntly accept extremely worst writings. If you still aren’t sure the grammar level that’s exusable and accepted by Be Open, you can read some of my stories/poems in my Medium profile page which has been approved by some publications (with a minimum editings). I believe those my writings are still far from good, but the publications seemed to be able to tolerate them.
- You are okay to be different, to have personality oddness or disorders and share your feelings and experiences here.
- You are okey to admit that you’re imperfect or jobless and depressed, telling that you have scars after giving birth with your baby, to share that you are old or has sexless marriage. overwhelmed with your kids, etc. Some publications only expect us to post self improvements and great achievements in life. We love it too, but it’s okey you come here only to share your sadness or anxieties and you feel stuck or to be in darkest phase of your life. By pouring out your true feelings, hope it could ease the issues and maybe you will get some supports from your readers. Basically, you’re free to share any personal experiences, good and bad, sad or happy, the embarrassing things to moments that make you proud.
- Show that you're open or receptive to something that comes from outside of yourself. Welcoming anythings as they are, though it might be in a contradiction with your own view.
- We are open for your honest opinions about anything as long as it's still in the corridor of Be Open and Medium guidelines.
From above explanations, you could catch what kinds of stories you can submit to this publication. Once again, as long as your writings have value, to educate, to encourage others to be a better person, I will publish your stories.
Here we can help each other, grow together, get healing naturally, find and recognize who we are and give values to both ourselves and others through writing.
Also, I want this to be a place where people can share the things they’re passionate about with others and a vast audience of readers who sincerely enjoy reading special or daylife moments and experiences.
What we like to publish:
We are open to almost any topics and writing forms. Here in Be Open, we have broad area:
- Life Deeply personal stories or observed from someone’s life that have broad lessons to learn. In topics of self improvement, life lessons, motivational writings, anything about psychology, mental health, personality disorder. traumatic experience, parenthood, teenager life, etc. Also stories about friendship, nature life and all about this world.
- Fiction I accept any kind of fiction story: fiction series, short fiction in romance theme, horror, suspense, humour, young adult, etc.
- Poetry I accept any kind of poetic forms, in various themes.
- Relationships Any kind of article/story about love, sexuality, dating, marriage, sexual health.
- Writing Anything about writings and blogging
- Hobbies Share stories about your hobbies with us: travelling, gardening, sport, photograph, art, pet etc.
Your writing style can be in the form of advice, personal experience, tips, interview, opinion, review, even listicles (but please still add personal touch/your point of view, so it feels more special).
What we don’t publish:
You’re free to share almost anything. But off course, we don’t indiscriminate all things.
We don’t approve writings that provocate or encouraging the pride or justification of doing negative/harmful things, such as self-harm, hate-speech, bullying, violence to human and animal, criminality, racism and sexism. You can check out Medium rules here: https://policy.medium.com/medium-rules-30e5502c4eb4
Also we don’t accept too vulgar sexual content. You can differentiate between porn to an aesthetically romance/sensual story/picture.
How to become our contributor:
If you’re interested to submit your stories to Be Open publication, to make sure I read your message, just send email to: [email protected] In your email, include your name and your Medium profile link. You can also add link to the poem/story you want me to check out.
Or for a simple way, you can just comment below by writing something like this; "I would love to contribute as writer". You can put a link of your poem/story for consideration too.
From here, I will add you as a writer to the Be Open publication. I will get back to you in 3–7 days.
When you’re already added as writer, you can continuously submit your future works by clicking the “…” next to the Publish button, then “Add to Publication.” Next, select Be Open from the list, then confirm your submission.
General Story Formating
For the detailed instruction of how format your story that will guarantee a fast approval/published by Be Open's Editors, you can observe it in this link:
After become our writer, every time you submit your pieces, please consider these requirements:
We accept both drafts or published stories (on your Medium profile page or outside medium, not already published on another medium publication). One - 2 posts each day submission. ***UPDATE (from 10 December 2022): You can submit more than 2 stories each day! :-)
Title, Subtitle and Featured Image are placed sequentially at the top of your writing. Please give credit to any image you use.
Wordcount is in the range of 100 to ±1500 words. Besides the featured image, please include at least 1 additional image in the body of your poem/stories.
One tag that should be added in your pieces is 'Be Open'. Others will be Poetry, Fiction, Life, Relationships, or Hobby. Use the best matched tag that related to your writing to make it listed in the Be Open navigation menu above.
Thank you for reading, I look forward to your submissions. :-)
Owner and Editor in Chief of Be Open publication
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