Write for us

Now that we’re syndicating our blog articles, we want to expand even further. We’re looking for people to submit their emotional wellbeing or mental health themed articles to us, for publishing or re-publishing here on our blog.

Your articles don’t have to be brand new – you might already have published them on your own blog or website.

All we ask is that your articles are in tandem with the ethos of FirstSigns / LifeSIGNS – we are very much a pro-recovery organisation so are looking for articles that inspire and promote mental health and emotional wellbeing.

We’re looking for one or two people to contribute a few articles each and every month, but you might only have one article to donate, and that’s fine too.

Your articles will be read by hundreds of people, so it’s a good opportunity to reach a larger audience. Your articles might even inspire more people to leave comments on our blog, so we’d love it if your articles touched the hearts and minds of our members enough to make them want to comment.

Your articles would be pushed out (kinda copied) to our official social network sites, like MySpace, Bebo and Facebook.

Would you like to write for us? Write with us? We only use first names here, so you could remain anonymous; you could even make up a ‘pen name’.

Email Wedge@firstsigns.org.uk

Guidelines

We’d love to publish your articles on our blog, but of course writing for one’s personal blog is quite different to writing for an organisation, and it’s important that everything we publish falls in line with our Mission and ethos. So please bear these short guidelines in mind when submitting your articles:

• No triggering content or graphic descriptions (focus on emotions and reasons rather than methods or severity of SI);
• Keep it positive, e.g. rather than sharing a horrible experience, discuss how you would ideally like the situation to work, and only mention the horrible experience as part of the article;
• Be clear about the difference between facts and your personal opinions;
• Avoid language that might offend (for example many people dislike being referred to as ‘cutters’ and prefer the phrase ‘person who self-injures’). Our audience is wide and diverse, not everyone cuts themselves;
• Don’t refer to other people either by name or in such a way that they might recognise themselves if they were to read the article;
• Be aware that we might need to edit your writing before we can publish it; but we will always check with you first;
• Let us know exactly how we should credit you; your first name? A pseudonym? With a link to your Twitter / blog?

This article is available for your website – all you have to do is make sure it’s obvious at the top of your page that we (FirstSigns / LifeSIGNS) wrote it and provide a link to this specific article and to our front page. You can copy and paste the text of our article into your blog, but you can’t change our words.
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