Florida Writers Blog

Increase your visibility in the writing community and hone your skills by sharing your knowledge and experience in blog posts.

We’re looking for writers to join our team of bloggers. Write blog posts that have clear take-aways for the writing community, and follow submission requirements. We ask for a commitment to a monthly deadline. Besides being published on our site, your blog posts will be emailed to 2,500+ subscribers — a mix of members and nonmembers — and promoted on our social media accounts. Take a look at our blog!

Submission Requirements

What We Publish

We publish posts that educate writers about the craft and business of writing. The key word here is “educate.” Post should include practical take-aways for writers.

What We Don’t Publish

We do not publish posts that are not of general interest to the writing community; promotional posts that pitch a book, website, business, service, or event; fiction, poetry, personal essays, memoir, or other creative writing; political posts; book or product reviews unless the book or product is of general interest to the writing community; or posts about erotica or similar adult topics.

How To Submit

  • You must be a member of the Florida Writers Association in good standing.
  • Interested writers should submit a sample post and tell us a little about what they’d be interested in writing about in the future.
  • Please also send a short bio. (See “About Your Headshot & Gravatar” below.)
  • Before submitting, it’s good to review previous posts and subscribe to get a better idea of what has been done. You may browse posts by subject using the category links in the sidebar.
  • Your post must be final and ready to go. Ensure your post has been copyedited, fact-checked, and properly formatted before you submit.
  • Posts should be search engine optimized (SEO).
  • Do not embed your submission text in an email. Send the post as an attached Word doc, single-spaced with block paragraphing to mdestefano [at] floridawriters.org
  • By submitting, you acknowledge that you own the material you submit, it’s original, and our blog will be the first place of publication. All contributors to the Florida Writer Association’s blog retain copyright to their work.There is no payment other than publication. Rights revert to the author upon publication. Contributors are free to publish their work after it appears on the blog. Please acknowledge the Florida Writers Association blog as the first place of publication.
  • Submit to [email protected]

About Your Bio & Gravatar

Your post will be accompanied by a short bio of no more than 75 words, your “job title,” and social media links. Your bio should be written in third person. You only need to submit your bio and social media links with your first submission. Scroll down this page to see how this info appears on our blog.

Your headshot will appear in your posts as part of your bio — but only if you have set up a “Gravatar.” From the Gravatar site: An “avatar'” is an image that represents you online—a little picture that appears next to your name when you interact with websites.

A Gravatar is a Globally Recognized Avatar You upload your headshot and create your profile just once, and then when you participate in any Gravatar-enabled site such as ours, your headshot and bio will automatically follow you there. Gravatar is a free service for site owners, developers, and users. Please supply us with the email address linked to your Gravatar account.

SEO & What Makes a Blog Post Effective: How to Format Posts

Check out this post about how to get more blog views by Arielle Haughee. Great advice—and exactly what we’re looking for in terms of SEO-ready posts with practical take-aways for the reader.

  • Your title and first paragraph should be brief, to the point, SEO optimized, and engage the reader quickly.
  • The best posts go deeply into a narrow issue, rather than stay on the surface of a broad topic.
  • Posts need only be around 400-600 words, but a well-written, well-formatted post can be longer.
  • Break up the body text with short paragraphs, sub-heads, bullet points, etc. White space is good. People tend to scan websites quickly for information, and walls of unbroken text are a turn off.