If you wish to make a submission to Tasmanian Times, please follow these directions to make it easier for us:
Please note that our focus is Tasmania only.
General Content
We are interested in the following:
Standard articles – any Tasmanian subject, up to 800 words. Articles should be well-written, balanced and adequately researched.
Feature articles – any Tasmanian subject, up to 2,500 words. Features should develop a theme and explore or argue it comprehensively. Articles should be well-written, balanced and adequately researched. Very long features can be presented as a series if necessary; please enquire before submitting.
Photographs – any Tasmanian subject, up to 20 photos. Single ‘press photo’ images are welcome as are photo essays. Photographs must be of suitable technical standard and no more than 1200 x 1600 pixels in size. Please provide a photographer credit and a caption.
Video – any Tasmanian subject, up to 8-10 minutes in length. Video must be of suitable audio and visual quality.
Creative writing – any Tasmania subject: poems up to 300 words, short stories up to 2000 words.
Letters to the Editor – any Tasmanian subject, up to 250 words. Letters should be concise, respectful of others and rely on evidence where necessary. Letter writers should provide a real name, address and phone number. We will withhold personal information upon request.
IMPORTANT NOTES (please read carefully)
- All material supplied must be original and owned by the submitting author.
- Authors must grant Tasmanian Times exclusive rights for 6 months, then perpetual non-exclusive rights, in writing via our standard form.
- Material that is defamatory, obscene, hateful, discriminatory or in any way legally dubious will not be published.
- Tasmanian Times does not guarantee publication of any material submitted.
- Tasmanian Times is not required to provide feedback about material not accepted for publication.
- Written material should be text in the body of an email not attached documents.
- Upon contact with us, we will review your work, and acceptable we will send you our standard contributor agreement for review and execution before publication.
Contact us using the following format:
- email us at submit[at]tasmaniantimes[com]
- Put SUBMISSION – (in capitals) and your content type (e.g. STANDARD ARTICLE) in the subject line
- We prefer plain text in the body of an email rather than an attached file like a .doc or .pdf.
- Please supply an image of the subject matter and ensure that we have the right to use it.
Statement or Media Release
Tasmanian Times has always had an interest in making its contribution to the public record of life on our islands. Organisations, political parties, unions, cultural bodies, movements and interest groups, government enterprises and programs, political candidates and so on are welcome to have their say.
Statements or media releases submitted must be about Tasmania. We do not accept unsolicited material that is not about Tasmania.
IMPORTANT NOTES (please read carefully):
- All material supplied must be original and owned by the submitting author or organisation.
- Tasmanian Times reserves the right to use submitted material as it sees fit. This includes editing for length, cropping photos to fit and other editorial techniques.
- Material that is defamatory, obscene, discriminatory or in any way legally dubious will not be published.
- Tasmanian Times does not guarantee publication of any material submitted.
- Tasmanian Times is not required to provide feedback about material not accepted for publication.
- Organisations that abuse the media release email box by flooding it will be blocked.
Contact us using the following format:
- email us at submit[at]tasmaniantimes[com]
- Put STATEMENT or MEDIA RELEASE (in capitals) in the subject line
- We prefer plain text in the body of an email rather than an attached file like a .doc or .pdf.
- Please supply an image of the subject matter of your statement and ensure that we have the right to use it.
- Video files are also welcome, or links to where they are available on the web.
- If your organisation publishes media releases on your own website, please also provide a link to that.
Request a review
Tasmanian Times accepts, without obligation, review copies of books, magazines, DVDs and other hardcopy materials. Items submitted must be substantially about or highly relevant to Tasmania.
Review copies should be posted to:
Tasmanian Times – For Review
PO Box 205, Launceston, Tas, 7250
Tasmanian Times is unable to return review copies and reserves the right to dispose of them as we see fit.
Events
You can email us at submit[at]tasmaniantimes[dot]com with details of your event as text in the body of an email with an attached image.
We accept invitations to events to review (or preview) artistic performances, or event subjects.
Please send invitations well in advance to submit[at]tasmaniantimes[dot]com with EVENT INVITATION (in capitals) in the subject line.
Invitations or tickets should be for two seats; door list inclusion is acceptable. We cannot guarantee that a review will be published or that it will be favorable.
Invitations should specify if performer interviews are available and whether recording by any means is permitted.
