Submitting Content

Journal Submissions

Style Guide

All copy should be submitted via email attachment in Microsoft Word or Open Word format; 12 pt Times Roman, 1.5 line spacing. No articles are accepted as hard copy (say through the post).

Titles of books (e.g. Burmese Days) and newspapers/journals (e.g. Tribune) should be italics (and never in capital letters).

Chapters of books, articles in newspapers and magazines have double inverted commas either side (e.g. “Why I Write”) but are never italicised.

Quotes are given as….He said: “Orwell is probably the greatest journalist of the twentieth century.” (notice use of colon, not comma, before the quote).

Inverted commas are always double except when needed inside double quotes when they become single.

Spellings should always follow English (rather than US) conventions. So organisation (not organization); humour (not humor), defence (not defense) etc.

Punctuation follows UK (not US) conventions. So, for instance, UK convention is:

He said Orwell was “the greatest journalist of the twentieth century”.

In the US it’s Orwell was “the greatest journalist of the twentieth century.”

Nineteen Eighty-Four is our style for the title of the book. Only in the American context can it be 1984

All photographs in the journal should carry captions; so if supplying a photograph with copy please include a caption.

Please submit photograph of yourself (no smaller than 400 x 400 pixels) when submitting copy via email attachment.

Submissions failing to follow these guidelines will not be accepted.

Website Submissions

Please submit all content as original content or with no more than 180 words taken from another website or news source. Articles should be no shorter than 250 words. If imagery is available please supply no smaller than 600×600 pixels. Please provide a full link to supporting or related content and submit this to the editor via info@orwellsociety.com.

Conditions for articles on the website may be varied.