Submissions

Do you have something educational, creative, or entertaining to share? We are open to submissions from writers who want to share something unique, are building a portfolio, or seeking guest posting opportunities.

Carefully read the following guidelines before submitting your work.

Important Things to Note

  • We DO NOT require a fee to guest-blog with us.
  • We DO NOT offer a fee for submitting your work with us. This is for writers seeking an opportunity to build their portfolio or to guest post.
  • We offer bylines, and all your articles are credited to you.
  • You can send in more than one piece, but they must be sent one at a time. DO NOT send more than one piece per email.
  • This opportunity is open to both fiction (including poetry) and non-fiction writers.
  • We allow writers to link to their website (including a writer’s bio), but the links must be relevant. We DO NOT accept spammy links. We reserve the right to remove any irrelevant or spammy links from the articles we accept.
  • Although your content will largely remain the same, we reserve the right to edit your work to fit the brand value and style.
  • We DO NOT accept articles or links directed to adult material or content, gambling, casinos, alcohol, smoking, dating sites, gaming sites, and other similar content or sites.
  • We DO NOT accept links to websites that offer similar services to ours.
  • We reserve the right to include internal links to your article.
  • Articles must be complete and original. We DO NOT publish content that has been published elsewhere, including your own website.
  • Articles must be completely free of plagiarism. We will confirm using several plagiarism detection tools. If plagiarism is detected, such a writer might be completely banned from submitting to our site, depending on the severity.

Content Structure

  • Articles must be at least 800 words long (except poetry – it can be shorter) with a title and relevant subheadings.
  • Each paragraph should not contain more than four lines to promote readability.
  • We accept pieces in all clean, readable fonts. But we prefer Georgia, 12, and justified format.
  • Include original or copyright-free stock visuals. The number is left to your discretion, but it should also work with the length of the article (3 is preferred for a 1500-word article). We reserve the right to remove or request that you change images if the initial ones are not relevant to the article.

Further Guidelines

Fiction 

  • We can only accept short stories now, and they should not be more than 1500 words.
  • Make sure your work is original and not published anywhere else, including your personal website.
  • Include image(s) that are relevant to the story. 
  • We DO NOT accept stories that promote adult material, gambling, casinos, alcohol, smoking, or any similar content. 
  • While your story can be any genre, if you are submitting romance stories, ensure the content is clean and NOT sexually explicit.

Non-Fiction

  • We ONLY accept articles on topics relevant to our services: printing, book illustration, content writing, editing, book/story ideation, ghostwriting, and publishing.
  • Articles should not be more than 1500 words.
  • Articles that educate or provide value to our audience are preferred.
  • Make sure your work is original and not published anywhere else, including your personal website.
  • Include image(s) that are relevant to the article. 
  • We do not accept articles that promote or link to adult material, gambling, casinos, alcohol, smoking, or any similar content. 

Poetry

  • Your poetry should not be more than 1000 words.
  • Make sure your work is original and not published anywhere else, including your personal website.
  • Include a featured image that is relevant to the poem. 
  • We DO NOT accept poems that promote adult material, gambling, casinos, alcohol, smoking, or any similar content. 
  • We DO NOT accept sexually-explicit poems. 

How to Submit

  1. Send an email to submit@nnikapublishing.com with a subject title in this format: {article type} submission – {title}. For example, “Non-Fiction Submission – How to Submit to Nnika”
  2. Let the body of the email contain a brief introduction to your piece and a Google Docs link to the piece. Don’t forget to provide editing access to anyone with the link; we won’t go through the trouble of asking for access.
  3. We DO NOT accept file attachments.
  4. You can address the email to the editor.
  5. We will contact you once we have approved your article, and inform you when it has gone live.
  6. We will also inform you if we decide not to proceed with your piece.
  7. We receive a lot of emails and deal with a massive amount of requests every day. So, give us a little time to review your submission. If you don’t hear from us in 3 weeks, you can send a follow-up.

Note: We reserve the right to review and modify the information on this page anytime without notice. Therefore, ensure you read through again before submitting ANY piece.

By submitting your work, you accept and agree to be bound by the information on this page. You MUST NOT submit your work if you do not wish to be bound by this information.