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Guidelines for contributors
REVOLVE welcomes contributions on a continual basis. We accept unsolicited submissions from freelance journalists or photographers. REVOLVE is about advancing positive change and therefore we promote the people and places that are developing the pathways towards a more sustainable future.
Contributors to REVOLVE are unpaid. REVOLVE uses Creative Commons meaning all content is free to re-use for online purposes with proper sourcing of title, author, and link to the original article on this site.
To contribute to REVOLVE, first consider which section of the website it is for: Water, Ecosystems, Energy, Mobility or Circular. The ‘best of’ will be selected by our editorial board for publication in our magazine.
To ensure your piece is considered for publication based on our seasonal themes, please submit your content before the submission deadline:
Spring
Ecosystems
Submission deadline
21 February
Print
14 March
Release
21 March
Summer
Energy
Submission deadline
21 May
Print
14 June
Release
21 June
Fall
Mobility
Submission deadline
21 August
Print
14 September
Release
21 September
Winter
Water
Submission deadline
21 November
Print
14 December
Release
21 December
External contributions are accepted in three forms: editorials, features and photo essays.
Please see the respective guidelines for each piece below.
To ensure a smooth submission, we encourage contributors
to review our Checklist for Contributors and Style Guide.
An editorial piece is an opinion piece which comments on current political/technical/social developments according to a particular theme (Water, Ecosystems, Energy, Mobility and Circular. Editorial pieces are aimed at a general audience.
REVOLVE welcomes editorials from think tanks, researchers, opinion makers, institutions, national and international policy makers, civil society, non-governmental organisations, and private interest groups. Authors must be transparent regarding who they represent.
To qualify for publication, editorials must take a stance and preferably make recommendations for improvement and action.
Lobbying pieces which only self-promote an organisation will not be published as editorials.
Editorials should be well-written and grammatically correct and between 500-600 words in length.
Please review our Checklist for Contributors and Style Guide.
A REVOLVE feature is a long-form (1500-2000 words) article that focuses on an event, place or person in great detail that includes references. The topic of the feature must be appropriate for REVOLVE’s main themes: Water, Ecosystems, Energy, Mobility and Circular.
REVOLVE welcomes features from freelance journalists and writers. REVOLVE editors select the best features for publication in REVOLVE’s quarterly print magazine.
To qualify for publication on REVOLVE’s website or magazine, your feature must have a beginning, a middle and an end. This means a short, snappy title, a lead-in (2-3 sentences introducing the focus of your feature), a main body of text (with subheadings) and a conclusion.
Lobbying pieces which only self-promote an organisation will not be published. Overly promotional pieces presenting a project or product will also not be published.
Please review our Checklist for Contributors and Style Guide.
Photo essays are featured on the REVOLVE website at Views and may be selected for print in the quarterly magazine. An essay can be a slide show of images, or a multimedia piece, together with an artist statement and a short bio. Please fill out the form below and provide a URL to your images, so we can review your essay submission.
If you are selected, we will contact you and work with you to prepare your photo essay for publication on REVOLVE Views.