Author's Guide

The SHS project is managed by a Writing Working Party made up of volunteers from an initial writing workshop for social housing residents at the Rozelle Neighbourhood Centre in November 2014. Our roles are:

The Publisher and Editorial Committee

• Lisa Smajlov (Coordinator, Rozelle Neighbourhood Centre)
• Susan Hawkeswood (Convenor, Inner West Tenant Group)
• Natalie Star (Chair, Writing working party)

Are responsible for content across all platforms, websites, blog and newsletters.

• Selecting pieces suitable for publication
• Light editing and feedback
• Moderating comments
• Resolving conflicts that may arise

Blog Admins

• Lisa Smajlov
• Susan Hawkeswood
• Natalie Starr
• Judy Singer (technical advisor)

Are responsible for uploading and deleting content. These roles will be rotated monthly

Who can write for us

Social housing tenants in the Leichhardt Municipality (Annandale, Balmain, Lilyfield, Birchgrove, Leichhardt and Rozelle).

Authors will be given their own passwords and can delete their own work.

How to submit an article

Please send your content in an editable format, e.g. as text in the body of the email, or as a Word attachment. Do not send your work as a PDF as it is not editable.

If you have a blog, send us the url and we will link to it if it meets our guidelines.  

Please refer to the legal notice below

When ready to submit click here to send us your submission

What happens next

Although we are volunteers, we will try to acknowledge receipt of your submission within 1 week, and give you feedback within 2 weeks. We may do a light edit e.g  make suggestions or fix typos etc.

If we haven’t got back to you in this timeframe please do not hesitate to send us a reminder.

Acceptable use guidelines

These guidelines are to ensure individuals can contribute their opinions and views as part of an inclusive and safe community, without being exposed to inappropriate content, offensive language or discriminatory views.

We will not publish work that is defamatory, or seeks to humiliate or incite hatred or violence against any individual or group.

Comments and letters

Comments on blog articles will be moderated, i.e. they may not appear immediately.

Disputes

Any disputes on content will be referred to the Writing Working Party. The editors’ decisions will be final

Copyright

Authors always retain copyright over their work. We will ask your permission if we wish to pass your work to any third party. You can delete your work from the blog at any time.

 

 

Legal

In consideration of Inner West Tenant Group Writing Working Party ("the publisher") agreeing to consider anything you submit and to publish it if it decides to, in its sole discretion, you represent and warrant to the publisher, and to each of its representatives for those purposes from time to time, that it is your own work, is not defamatory, and does not breach any law or any third party’s rights, and you grant the publisher, free of any charge, royalty or licence fee, for the full term of any copyright (including renewals, extensions and reversions), a non-exclusive right and licence to publish it, with or without editing and a summary description by its representatives, and to archive it and to republish it on the website and on affiliated websites and in any electronic, social or print media operated by the publisher now or hereafter, this agreement to be governed and interpreted by the laws applicable in New South Wales, to which jurisdiction you and the publisher irrevocably submit.