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Guidelines for Writing Editorials in Voices (Tomorrow's Leaders~Today's Issues)
Voices (Tomorrow's Leaders~Today's Issues) welcomes submissions from 18-25 year olds from around the world. The readers of our publication are interested in your views and concerns. Keep in mind that our publication is written for your peers around the world. Your editorials will be lost if your first sentence doesn't immediately grab your readers' attention. Listed below are some basic concepts that will help you shape your ideas into an interesting piece that your peers will want to read.
- Read the editorial pages of past issues of Voices at www.voicesoftomorrow.org to get an idea of what we publish.
- Editorials are tightly focused opinion pieces that are argued like a debate. They are no more than 4-500 words and can be about any domestic or international issue that concerns you - such as human rights, gender rights, war, ethnic diversity, non-violent conflict resolution, introducing democracy to the Middle East, birth control, religion, etc. Editorials can also pertain to youth issues (educational concerns, pop culture, globalization and cultural change, entertainment, sports and the arts, travel, etc.) We publish editorials on ANY topic that impacts your life.
- GETTING STARTED - What is it about the topic you have chosen that will be of interest your peers? Will you as the reader of your piece be interested in what you have written?
- DO NOT SUBMIT AN ESSAY - Your editorial should be written in more of a conversational in style - as if you were talking to a friend - not like an essay you would write for school. Every sentence can be edited down to bare-bones, hard-hitting language that will make what you write important to the reader.
- People all around the world appreciate stories about other people. If Reality TV taught us anything it is that everyone has a story that audiences will react to with anger, empathy, etc. An editorial that includes information about people helps to infuse your editorial with reference and often with passion.
- Photographs/and illustrations are necessary components to your piece BUT they cannot be taken from any source from which you have not gotten permission/photo credit. In other words, you cannot take photos and illustrations off of the web. We accept original artwork or artwork that can be credited with permission. Artwork is to be sent as a jpeg attachment.
- If you have any other questions, or want to discuss ideas - I'd be happy to work with you. I can be reached at this email address.
