Contributor Guidelines

Please take a look through our magazine, noting our style and content. For successful eligibility of contributions, the following guidelines will assist you.

SisterShip Magazine is written by women for women.

We will inspire, encourage, inform, entertain, and motivate women to enjoy, learn, share, and succeed.

Our readers will be of a broad age range with a passion for the water, whether simply dreaming or living on board and everywhere in between.

Women have a unique connection and an inbuilt desire to help and support each other. We will connect women all over the world and find out what they’ve done previously, what they are doing, and what they hope to achieve.

We are committed to promoting women’s professional and recreational experiences. SisterShip is a positive networking forum and a comfortable place for emotional and practical advice.

Questions and shared knowledge are the backbones of good seamanship and a good life. We will create a safe place where people can ask questions and receive thoughtful, caring answers. This will make us all safer when we are underway, on the water or on any journey.

We look forward to working with you and creating a unique, informative, and safe place for women to share.

Take note of the different segments and word length in previous issues. The longest articles are technical and destination pieces, and we prefer less than 2,000 words for these, but we can be flexible if the article/details call for it. (An article/subject generally dictates its own length – if you extend the piece purely to create more pages it won’t work and won’t be published).

DO NOT submit a story or any part of a story/pictures that has been published anywhere, in any format, at any time (please read our full Contributor T&Cs below), this includes on a webpage or any other magazine.

We do understand, however, that some information from your blog may overlap, but ensure it is changed sufficiently so it is presented as new. If you are in any doubt, just drop us a line. In particular, we’d like original pictures, but realise this isn’t always possible.

In the footer write your name, contact details, and page numbers on every page.

Be honest, be unique, and down to earth. Ensure it is entirely your own work. Do not use other people’s writing/pictures. Entice and inspire, be fun, be informative and keep in mind our style.

The article itself must just be typed text (unformatted), do not insert the photos into a Word document. One-and-a-half line spacing is preferred. Read through your final article carefully and out loud. Arrange a friend or family member to read it through – fresh eyes help find those sneaky bloopers.

The editing team will undertake minor edits without consulting you, this will not change the story/information. If major revisions are necessary we will return the article to you with the details. If you want to see the final version (that may have been tweaked) prior to publication, ensure you let us know when you submit the piece.

The editing team retains the right to accept or reject your contribution without explanation. We will do our best to inform you of acceptance or rejection as soon as possible.

Our readers are international, so write as you would for where you live. IE if you live in the US write with US spelling, UK – UK spelling etc. We have an international flavor and we don’t want to stifle that. Same goes for measurements, and navigation aids (the USA and Australia use different systems – green/red on opposite sides). This will be noted in the magazine.

Photos should be high quality, bright, clear pictures. If you are writing about cooking or making something – anything like this, progress pictures will be a big winner. Great pictures are the key.

Send up to 10 photos (the best you have) – no more, (contact us if you’d like to send more/discuss). A Word document with captions that describe or explain the photo should accompany the pictures.

The captions must not be the photograph’s file name. Ensure the file name is something unique, not just 1, 2, 3. Use your surname with a number for example.

E.g.

Filename of the photo itself: JSSmith1

Caption in Word document: JSSmith1 – Sailing the Pacific

Ensure the captions are next to each correct file name, in a Word document, preferably after the article text.

Include a couple of sentences for your bio and your picture. If you have a contact details/website, feel free to include them too.

We like to collaborate. If you run a marine-related business or something you think our readers would be interested in, let us know. There are opportunities to share your knowledge/experience in an article in return for advertising. But the article must not be an advertisement in itself.

Full guidelines/T&Cs here: Contributor Guidelines please read. If you send us an article you are agreeing to our guidelines.