Pitching/ submitting an article

Paragraph-long pitches or whole articles can be sent to the following email address: editors@redthreads.media. Please, consult the About page for our mission and political principles.

Submission guidelines

While we don’t have word-count cut-offs, our regular articles are usually 1,500-2,000 words in length. Articles that are part of a thematic issue tend to be longer: 3,000-4,000 words.

Please submit prospective articles as Word documents in 12-point type, single spaced.

We prefer hyperlinks to footnotes or any other form of reference, and ask that authors insert and format the hyperlinks themselves.

We prefer endnotes in case some clarifications are needed that cannot be part of the main text.

Please, also include a short, one- or two-sentence biographical note, which can include a twitter handle, blog, etc.

If the article is accepted for publication, we will also ask you to send us an illustrative image that is out of copyright (your own, or with permission to use from the author, or from a public domain site such as Wikipedia).

Editorial process

Once an article passes an initial desk assessment, it will be reviewed by at least two editors, who will make the final editorial decision. We aim to keep the process fast, considering both the authors’ capacity and our own. It might occasionally take us between 2-3 weeks to work on one round of revisions. Feedback can include suggestions related to the argument, structure, and tone of the article; more pointed comments related to the content; and revisions of the text in accordance with standard English usage. Even after revisions, it might still happen that editors and authors decide not to go ahead with publishing an article.

Copyleft policy

Red Threads is copy-left. Our articles can be copied, translated, and republished as long as the author and Red Threads are credited and a link is provided to the original publication.

In solidarity,

The Red Threads editorial collective