Courageous Woman Magazine
Writer’s Guidelines for Contributing Writers
Courageous Woman Magazine is an inspirational publication that highlights extraordinary women in business and entertainment. Each month, thousands of readers visit our site in search of inspiration, motivation, or solutions to their problems. Sharing your expertise, experiences, and providing useful tips to our readers will help you make new connections and boost your personal brand or business.
What do we look for?
Here is what we like and what we don’t when it comes to considering submissions for Courageous Woman Magazine online and in print.
Inspiring message: Make your submission unique based on your knowledge of the subject.
Press-release-style or business promotional articles. That would fall under paid promotions or advertising. If you want to promote your business, product, service, or book, we have several ways to support you. For paid features and to advertise with us, email us at info@courageouswomanmag.com
Women-interest content: Inspirational, trendy, or articles that give solid advice should include a minimum of 3 solid takeaway tips.
How To Articles – We love How To, Steps to, Ways to articles that are based on women-driven topics and women-interest especially health, relationships, and money matters.
No paid ad links or mentions: This is a serious violation. Any editorial coverage given in exchange for compensation without permission will result in deletions of contributions.
Correct length: Articles are word counts of 500 -1,000 for online considerations. 300 for print consideration.
Originality: We will only accept original copy that is exclusive to Courageous Woman Magazine. Plagiarism will result in deletion from the platform.
Source your quotes: Your quotes should include the source, e.g.:
“ABC XYZ,” Angela Bassett said in an interview with Essence.”
No self-promotion: Articles are a way to highlight your skills and boost your credibility as an expert. They are not a place to promote your company or your services.
Proofreading and spell-check your article, PLEASE: Spell check and grammar check before submitting it. Articles that are not in alignment with our guidelines from story to grammar will be rejected. Grammarly.com is a good website to check your grammar.
Factual accuracy: Be sure to fact-check and check the spellings of individuals and company names and locations. Accuracy is key to winning!
Formatting: No fancy text, no all-caps words, no bolded text, no italics (except for publication titles).
Photos: Don’t add photos unless it’s an image you or your company took.
Publication: Please expect 3 to 4 weeks before your story gets reviewed. Please keep this in mind if your submission is on a seasonal topic or holiday.
POLICY
We reserve the right to reject content for any reason.
Courageous Woman reserves the right to edit all content submitted for publication, including headlines, grammar, formatting, and length.
We reserve the right to remove or reject any links or content we consider offensive, harmful, or overly promotional. Any violation of our policies can result in the removal of content or removal from the platform.
We Are Seeking Contributors in The Following Departments
I Did It, So Can You!
Fitness
Health and Wellness
Relationships
Money Matters
Word Counts
Feature Stories (Assigned only)
One-page 1 photo
Word count 250-300 Max
Two-page up to 3 photos
Word count up to 500 Max
INSTRUCTIONS
The story should tell the courageous parts of her personal story and accomplishments. It can be a Q & A or editorial-style story.
FORMAT OPTIONS (paid media)
Q & A: Use questions that allow her the opportunity to share the inspirational parts of her story or testimony.
Editorial-style: Use catchy paragraph subtitles to describe what’s in that paragraph
All feature stories should include the question. “What is your definition of a Courageous Woman?’
TITLE
The title should be catchy and attention-grabbing and should be no more than 60 characters
OPENING PARAGRAPH
The first sentence should be an attention-grabbing lead-in to her inspiring story. An inspirational introduction. Don’t start it with where she is from unless it’s part of the inspiration.
CLOSING PARAGRAPH
End her story with a bang! Make that reader inspired to want to know more about who she is and want to go find out more by going to her website or social media
CONTACT
Include the web address of the business and up to three social media outlets.
Other Notes
PAID WRITING GIGS include:
Product promotions
Book Editing
Proofreaders
(Experienced only)
Email for details: Info@courageouswomanmag.com
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