Submission Guidelines
Have a story to share? We’d love to hear it!
We will be launching Attitude and Outlook in Spring 2025. New look, lots of stories on topics you love. Subscribe (right sidebar) to receive our stories by email.
We are currently accepting personal essays and stories related to recovery of all types. Generally, our articles are 1000-2500 words, but we may accept articles of other lengths if they fit our editorial vision. We don’t discriminate, but we are discriminating about the writing we accept; submissions are at the discretion of the editorial staff.
No product, facility, or service promotions, solicitations, or reviews, please. You are, however, welcome to submit a link in your personal website or service in your author bio.
We prefer personal stories, as our vision is to share from our own experience, strength, and hope. Your story through recovery, or one step on your journey, general musings, and any recovery-adjacent topic or stories welcomed; again, our choices for publication are subject to the editorial review.
Our sister publication, The XX Files, also accepts personal stories for, by, and about women on all topics of life if you have more to share that is not recovery related.
General Guidelines:
- Please email submissions as a google doc link using the form below.
- 1000-2500 words / 3-8 min read time (general guideline, editor’s discretion for longer/shorter stories)
- Please edit before sending. We provide minimal editing and formatting for publication.
- Feel free to include images (only ones you hold rights for, properly attributed) – free image creators are abundant. If you do not provide an image, we will select a featured image for your story.
- Add author bio in Google Doc (if desired, we also publish anonymously or semi-anonymously), one link to personal platform or product accepted – no general affiliate links.
- All works will be held for publication with the initial site launch. We will contact you via email if we choose to publish your work and will try to respond to any submissions we choose not to use at this time.
We are not currently able to compensate authors for their work, though we do recognize the value in your words. We do not claim exclusive rights on any of your submissions and encourage you to publish far and wide! Links to your work on another platform may be included in your bio.
We will do our best to review your work and get back to you as quickly as possible!
xoxo, Lorien S.
Sober. Mom. Writer. Many, many other things.
