Submission Guidelines for Op-Eds

Capitol Weekly welcomes Opinion pieces and Commentaries on California public policy or politics. Please note that we receive many submissions, often on the same topic, and not all submissions will be published.  Acceptance for publication is at the discretion of the editor.

Guidelines:

Please send Op-Ed submissions to [email protected] and include “Op-Ed Submission” in the Subject of the email.  Please include your contact information (email and phone number) with all submissions.

Submissions must be exclusive to Capitol Weekly.

Submissions must be no longer than 750 words.

If possible, please provide an image that we have permission to use to illustrate your Op-Ed.  Images should be horizontal – a format of 2:1 (twice as wide as tall) is ideal. Image files should be no larger than 900K. If you do not provide an image, you agree that our editors will select an image to illustrate the piece without your input.

Your submission may be edited for accuracy, style and clarity, and will be published as space is available in our schedule. We receive many submissions and cannot guarantee a specific publication date.

Please include a very brief (20-30 word) bio of author/s for use at the end of the piece.

Submissions that do not follow the guidelines above will not be considered for publication.