Northwest Hub Submission Guidelines

Northwest Hub relies on our network of contributors to send us original, cutting-edge content. Our team of correspondents includes noted architects, planners, lawyers, engineers, researchers, journalists and many others.

We are always looking for new writers. If you would like to pitch a story to Northwest Hub, please follow these guidelines:

If you have not previously written for Northwest Hub, please keep your submission under 1,000 words. We will not accept submissions from new writers that exceed this word count.
Please write in the general style of Northwest Hub. We encourage clear, intelligent writing for an audience that includes both professionals and interested members of the community.

We also accept ideas. If you are not sure that your idea is a good fit for Northwest Hub, please contact us for guidance before you begin to write your piece.

Topics we are regularly interested in

Environmental sustainability and sustainable design
Land use and environmental law
Real estate and development
Community building and community outreach
Transportation (including pedestrian, bike and transit)
Urban planning and growth management
Architecture and urban design
Emerging technologies
Futurism, history and “long view” perspectives on current land use and development challenges, with a particular focus on scenarios and foresight as a means of gaining better understanding of how these issues may evolve over time

Topics we do not cover

Partisan politics
Self-promotion
Negative reviews

Story submission
Include links to background information, websites, any article we have published on Northwest Hub covering a similar topic and other appropriate sources of information.

Include at least one image (smaller than 2 MB) to illustrate your story. This can be a photo you've taken, an image licensed under Creative Commons or one that you have permission to use. If you send a photo that someone else has taken, please include the photographer's name and a link to his/her site.

Please email your submission to editor@northwesthub.org.

All Northwest Hub writers currently contribute on a voluntary basis. We do not have the resources to offer financial compensation. Northwest Hub contributors enjoy writing for various other reasons, including exposure to our broad audience of educated and engaged readers. We understand this arrangement cannot work for everyone. But if you are interested, and excited about land use and environmental issues, we would love to hear from you.