Dispatches Submissions

General Instructions
Submission Guide | Style Guide | Sending Files
Contact Form

This page provides details and procedures for submitting articles and/or ads for publication in MWSA’s Dispatches magazine.

Instructions
For Article or Advertising Submmissions

Submission Deadlines per issue

  • Spring (Jan-Mar): 15 March

  • Summer (Apr-Jun): 15 June

  • Fall (Jul-Sep): 15 September

  • Winter (Oct-Dec): 15 December

Instructions

All Submissions — the basics

  1. Please read our submission guidelines and style guide before submitting an article or ad.

  2. All MWSA members may submit articles, while free ad spaces are reserved for dues paying and lifetime members.

  3. Email us at dispatches@mwsa.co to submit an article or an ad.

  4. See the Documents and Images section below for more details about our requirements for formatting, image resolution, etc.

  5. Although we accept email attachments of your files (formatted documents, digital photos, and images, etc.), you may find it easier to drag and drop your files using the Send File(s) section below.

Articles

Please refer to the submission and style guides below to familiarize yourself with our requirements.

Advertisements

MWSA members may submit ads for their books and/or services. We reserve a certain number of free ad spaces for our dues paying and lifetime members in each magazine issue. Ads must be camera-ready, in PDF or JPG format, copy edited, and in a readable font when sized for a digital magazine.

If you are a non-member and would like to pay for ad space, the following rates apply:

  • Full-page $200

  • Half-page $100

  • Quarter-page $50

All ads are now 50% off!

Discount will be applied in your shopping cart

 

Documents and Images
Formatting requirements for articles and ads.
Includes a "drag-and-drop" file transfer capability.

Formatting Requirements

Documents

  • Microsoft Word document or PDF

  • Ensure all documents submitted include the title and the author's name (i.e., A Good Story_Joan Smith.pdf)

  • If submitting images with a story, at the end of the document, please include the desired caption or captions and photo credit—i.e., Joan Smith graduating from boot camp in 2008. (Photo courtesy of the Smith family)

  • Please see our Style Guide for further details.

Images

  • High-resolution images for the author's photo and all support images, with the exception of older images when not possible

  • Other images (book cover)

  • Please submit images with identifying information and author’s name (i.e., Boot camp_Joan Smith.jpg)

Ads

  • High-resolution images in JPG or PDF

  • Book ads require a camera-ready ad; MWSA does not have volunteer staff to create ads

  • For service ads, provide a photo, logo, all contact information, and a short description of the services provided

  • Please ensure ads are copy edited and are in a readable font when sized for a digital magazine

How to send us document and/or image files

Option 1 — include files as email attachments

Option 2 — use the drag-and-drop button to upload your files directly to our Dropbox account

  • Once you click on the button below, a new browser window will appear

  • On that page, you can drag and drop the required files and transmit them

Contact Form
Use this form to contact our Dispatches editorial staff
You can also email us directly at dispatches@mwsa.co

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