Submission Guidelines

Writing for The New Outlook

If you’re a writer pitching an unsolicited The New Outlook for the first time, send submissions between 850 and 1,200 words as Word attachments to submissions@newoutlook.org.

If a member of our staff has not confirmed receipt beyond this message within 7 business days after you sent it to this email address, your submission has been declined.

Tone of Voice

• Pieces should be approachable, but educational.

• Keep academic jargon to a minimum.

• Writing in first person is acceptable when it suits the piece.

• We support reindustrialization, tariffs, foreign policy realism, and protectionism; while we are open to publishing a wide variety of views, if you pitch us a piece on why free trade is amazing, we will likely redirect you to National Review.

Submitting Drafts

• For unsolicited pitches: Include a short biography covering why you are the best person to tell the story; we are not looking for a laundry list of degrees and achievements, just for people who fit the piece.

• A submitted draft should be ready for publication. We will edit for content and style but spelling and grammar should be reasonably accurate.

• If you do not provide a title and preferred subheading, we will create one of our own. We highly recommend you provide your own and we reserve the right to change as needed.

Miscellaneous Guidelines

• Facts which are not in common knowledge should be cited with in-text citations; links should be placed on the action verb in the sentence (i.e. “President Trump said he would restart nuclear testing.”).

• When citing a story, link to the original source if possible (for example, if writing about a Supreme Court decision, link to the decision instead of a write-up about it).

• Pieces should generally be within 850 to 1200 words, though exceptions can be made. If you plan on significantly exceeding the limit (more than 100 words either way) ask ahead of time or your piece may be automatically rejected.

• All images used should comply with copyright laws, and links to the image should be included in your draft document.

• Use the Oxford comma.

• Acronyms which are widely used (FBI) do not need to be spelled out at first use, whereas lesser-known acronyms (CTBTO) should be spelled out at first use, followed by the acronym in parentheses (like so: Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty Organization (CTBTO)).

• Dashes can be used in various ways (like this – with a space – or like this–without a space–so long as usage is consistent).

• If AI usage is suspected or detected, your piece will be automatically rejected.