Volume 14, Issue 6
April 2009
Sexuality & Sensuality
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"Traditions"
Contribution Poster
Submissions Due:
Fri 01 May 09

Here at MacMedia, we exist to print your writing. Without your contributions, this paper has little function and no spirit. We'll take basically anything you throw at us: serious news, opinion pieces, fact-based feature articles, reviews, fiction, poetry, humour, comics, basically anything.

We publish monthly, with a contribution deadline approximately a week and a half before our anticipated distribution date. You'll find the deadline, issue theme and any other relevant suggestions on the     front page of this website, in the current issue on the stands around campus, and on posters in McLaughlin College. If you need more information, just e-mail us at macmedia@yorku.ca.

The best way to send us your contributions is by e-mailing them to us in an attached Word document. Sending us other formats or pasting the text into the body of your message will still get your stuff printed, but it does make more work for us. You can also slip contributions underneath the door of our office, 004c McLaughlin College. If you ever have cause to send us graphics, they should be sent as separate files, as we can't use images pasted into word documents. If you've got something high res, we'll love you forever.

Often contributors ask what length they should make their articles, and the best answer is to write as much as you need to write to do your subject justice. In practical terms, we print articles that range from 250 to as much as 2500 words. We will edit for length and to tighten up counterproductively loose writing though, so don't take that as a license to ramble.

The best articles are ones that deal with subjects we don't normally think about, or that present new ways of thinking about things we take for granted. The more specific and focused your articles are, the better. Don't get stuck writing a general response to the entire breadth of one of our themes - they're broad for a reason, and that reason is to give people room to get specific about the facets of that theme that mean the most to them.

If you're ever unsure about anything, ask for assistance. Feel free to submit your contributions well in advance of the deadline if you'd like the chance to get some feedback and enjoy a bit more interactive editing process. We always want to hear from you. Our door is often open, and when it isn't, our inbox and voicemail certainly are.

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