For authors and contributors
Share your expertise, your news or your point of view with the people who read our magazines and sites. Here is what we look for, and how a story goes from your idea to the page.
Where your story can run
What we are looking for
What you know from doing this every day, made useful to someone who does not.
What makes it work: One clear lesson, explained the way you would to a client across the table.
Ideas that fit
A first, an opening, a launch, a collaboration, a change worth knowing about.
What makes it work: Say what is new and why it matters to readers now, in the first lines.
Ideas that fit
What is changing in how people live, design, dine, travel or buy, and why.
What makes it work: Not just that something is up or down, but the reason, with a real example or figure.
Ideas that fit
A person, a place or an experience that makes a reader say they did not know that existed.
What makes it work: Specific, sensory details and real names. Show the thing rather than describing it as exceptional.
Ideas that fit
Something useful, beautiful or clever, told as a story and not as a sales sheet.
What makes it work: How it is made or done, who it is for, and what it replaces. Readers should learn something even if they never buy.
Ideas that fit
The neighborhood, the season, the insider's guide that only someone who lives here would write.
What makes it work: Places and people by name, and a recommendation you would make to a friend.
Ideas that fit
What readers want from a piece
Readers can find facts anywhere. They come for what you make of them, and why.
Names, places, details and examples. "A waterfront estate" is forgettable; the address, the view and the architect are not.
A tip they can use, a place they can go, a question they now know to ask.
Strong photography does as much as the words. Send images you have the right to share, with a credit.
Useful and generous beats promotional. A story that sells nothing is the one that gets read and remembered.
Your name and your company appear with the article. Writing about the subject, rather than about yourself, is what makes it worth publishing.
How it works
5 minutes for an idea
Pitch an idea in a few lines, or write the full article here, photos and all.
Usually within a few business days
Every submission is read by a person. Nothing goes live without an editor's review.
Usually 1 to 2 weeks
Editors may ask you a question, tighten the writing, and check the facts, photos and credits before it is scheduled.
Usually within a few weeks of approval
Editors decide which of our magazines and sites it suits, and schedule it around what else is running.
On the day it goes live
Your name, and your company if you would like it there, are credited on every site it appears on.
From first send to publication, allow about a month. Some pieces move faster; some wait for the right issue.
Your invitation email has a link that is yours alone. Click it, or paste it here to open your article form.
No invitation yet? Send us an idea and an editor will be in touch about writing it up.
Ways to tell it
The long read: a person, a place or an idea explored properly.
Dining, travel, design, boating, art and the rest of the good life.
A narrative built around one remarkable home.
A person, a team or a business, and what drives them.
An evergreen explainer to a place, written by someone who knows it.
Pictures first, with only the words they need.
What the numbers mean, in plain language, for a place.
Short and timely: an opening, a launch, a milestone.
Before you send
Send it in a few lines. If you have been invited to contribute, use the personal link in your invitation to write the whole article here.
Send a story idea