** NEW SECTION**
.Poetry and Prose (P&P).
Just like it sounds…
Keep entries to under 3000 words.
.Say Something.
Have Something on your mind? Something Substantial to say? Send it in! We will feature your blog submission essays.
Interested? Here’s how it works…
- Make entry no more than 1500 words. e-mail it to somethingofsubstance@gmail.com, with the phrase “say something” and a blog title in the subject line.
- Include first name, last name, middle name, full name or nickname to accompany blog. This will be used to distinguish your entries from another. if you’d like, you may also send a picture to accompany your post.
- Properly cite any quotations, articles, or other non-original works by referencing the author and/or place they appeared.
- We encourage you to tackle the issues that weigh heaviest on your mind or to have fun and appreciate what’s around you. However, your essay should never come at the expense of others. As such, no blogs containing blatant hate speech or discrimination will be accepted, tolerate, or posted.
- Your blog will be posted as is. This means that any spelling, grammatical, factual, formatting, or opinion errors are solely your responsibility.
Before being posted, Something.of.Substance will contact you at your submission e-mail address to confirm you wish your essay to be posted. By releasing content to Something.of.Substance, you receive acknowledgment of your work, but give up rights to the website. This essay will not be reproduced without your permission and may not have been previously published elsewhere (for reasons of copyright infringement). If you are found to have violated terms of this site, your essay will be promptly deleted.
Also note that any blog you release is open to commenting by others.
.the ex-file.
Don’t get mad, get writing!
Recently dumped? Ending that relationship? Worried that you may just text message your deepest feelings at 2am after that 9th bottle glass of Blue Moon? Vent your thoughts constructively! Send us your never-shared letters to your old flame. Please observe the following restrictions:
-No more than 1000 words. Brevity is the soul of getting over it.
-Eliminate all names, addresses or revealing personal information. We should not be able to search your ex on any social networking site…but we would try anyway.
-Please do not include pictures. Instead, offer those to your backyard fire pit or as an alternative fuel source for your car.
-Any threats of harm against yourself or another individual will be taken seriously.
-Please e-mail your break-up letters to somethingofsubstance@gmail.com. Reference “breakup” in your subject line. All e-mail addresses will be kept strictly confidential and will be erased upon uploading of your letter.
.beauty is in the beholder.
Tell us what you find beautiful about the world. Create it yourself. Write it, draw it, collage it, photograph it. Send us your “found” beauty and let us know why it means anything to you-just share it!
Keep submissions to under 1000 words and send to somethingofsubstance@gmail.com. Please use the word “beauty” in the subject line and include your first name, last initial, and age (if you feel like taking credit for your work) and correctly cite those whose works of beauty you are passing along.
.memoir-minis.
Scenes from a life: Mine. Yours. His. Hers.
Send your memoir-mini to be published. Include a title, make it under 2,000 words, and don’t include last names unless you have permission. E-mail your memoir-minis to somethingofsubstance@gmail.com.
.educational black-hole.
Everything you should have known by the time high school was over, but recent Presidential policy neglected to fund.
As a disclaimer, I am not a public health expert, a doctor, a nurse, a teacher, or the President of the United States. However, I am a high school graduate, a college graduate (with honors!), the finisher of an EMT course, a former certified First Responder, an avid reader of all manner of books, magazines and textbooks, and, most importantly, a very resourceful researcher.
