Submission Guidelines

Are you are interested in submitting your piece of work in this publication named The Onset of Writing, then you are most welcome.

Our Motto:-

We mean it when we say we want to inspire and influence people through our write-ups and poems. Even for one reader, we will write.

Accepted genre:-

1. Haiku/Tanka/sonnet/free-verse
2. Erotic poetry submission is not accepted.
3. Fiction and non-fiction with a certain word limit.
4. Short stories

How to submit:-

Go through this procedure for submitting your artwork.

Add a draft or post to publication

If you’re contributing to a publication, you can submit your stories to the publication. Your story can be published only in one publication at a time.

Add a draft to a publication

Desktop iOS

1. Open the story you want to submit. Click the three-dot button at the top, then Edit story to enter the edit mode.
2. In the edit mode, click the three-dot button in the top-right corner of the page to open your story settings.
3. Select Add to publication from the dropdown list.
4. Choose the publication you intend to submit to and click Save.
5. If you are the owner or editor of the publication, then your draft will be immediately added to the publication as a draft. You must then click the “Publish” button at the top of the screen to publish your draft as a story in that publication.
6. If you are a writer for the publication, then your draft will not be immediately submitted to the publication. You must click the “Ready to submit?” button at the top of the page in order to send your draft to the publication editors for review. Then, the editors of that publication will have a chance to review your draft and schedule it for publishing.

Add a story to a publication

Desktop iOS

1. Open the story you want to submit. Click the three-dot button at the top, then Edit story to enter the edit mode.
2. In the edit mode, click the three-dot button in the top-right corner of the page to open your story settings.
3. Select Add to publication from the dropdown list.
4. Choose the publication you intend to submit to and click Save.
5. If you are the owner or editor of the publication, then your story will be immediately added to the publication. Readers can view your story in the publication.
6. If you are a writer for the publication, then your story will be immediately submitted to the publication editors for review. The editors of that publication will have a chance to review your draft. Readers will not see your story in the publication until it is reviewed and added to the publication.

Note: To confirm that a story has been submitted to a publication, the writer must ensure that when in edit mode, the top-left corner of the story says “Submitted draft” or “Submitted story,” If the top-left corner says “Not yet submitted”, then the post is not yet submitted to the publication. In that case, the writer must first click the “Ready to submit?” button, followed by “Submit to publication.”