Submissions are now on PAUSE. You are welcome to still send in submissions, but we will resume reviewing/posting in September 2025. Stay tuned, and thank you for your support!
Hello! We’re so excited that you’re interested in contributing to our Disability & Access Collective! We are looking for unique perspectives, groovy stories, and lots of vibrant conversation. We see the pieces on this site as being intertwined, communicating and resonating with each other in shared experience. Our hope is that this will be a safe space to celebrate and explore the wide diversity of that is “disability”.
Please read these guidelines carefully before submitting!!
At the end of this page is a link to our Submission Form.
What to Submit:
We accept essays, slideshows, poster boards, collages, short films, poetry, art, creative works, etc. Unsure if we’ll publish your piece? Ask us!
No piece is too short! We have no specific length requirement, but we sadly can’t accept full-length manuscripts of books.
Our Review Process:
- Submit your writing, art, video, etc. via our Submission Form below.
- At least two members of the blog will review your submission and provide feedback. You’ll receive an email when the review process is complete.
- You’ll have a chance to revise your piece. Revision can mean addressing format/grammar/content suggestions for written work. For artwork or videos, we may ask for a brief ‘artist’s statement’ or other additional components to ensure accessibility.
- Check out the DAC’s Statement on Linguistic Justice to see how we approach providing feedback.
- After you revise, reply to the feedback email and let us know!
- You will receive an email notification as soon as we publish your submission! Hooray!
How to Format Your Submission:
- We review all submissions through Google Drive. Our submission form will request an active link to a google drive file.
- Use the following file naming format:
- AuthorName_PieceTitle_mm.dd.yy (submission date)
- Ex: JudyHeumann_Being Heumann_02.25.20
- Stick to standard file formats (.pdf, .docx, .pptx, .jpg, .png, .mp3, .mp4, etc.).
- Please keep all files under 50MB (Google Drive’s file size limit). All submissions should be reasonably compressed (e.g. 50 MB is suitable for a short video, not for an image.)
- If you’d like to submit a large video project, please email us for specific instructions.
- Make sure any videos, slideshows, images, etc. display properly when uploaded to Google Drive.
- If you’re submitting a video, podcast, or any other form of audio file, ensure it includes captions if there is spoken dialogue.
- If you’re submission includes images, please include alternative text descriptions. Here is some information on writing good alt text. Alt Text captions can be shared in a separate file if necessary.
- Turn SHARING PERMISSIONS ON!!! Make sure we can access all files in “Suggesting Mode.”
Our Submission Form will Request:
- The name you would like to be published under (e.g. initials, full name, first name only, etc.) We do not publish anonymously; publication should carry a “real” author.
- Your pronouns.
- Your email address.
- The title of your piece.
- 3-5 keywords that describe your piece. These keywords can represent the overall genre, theme, or focus of your writing (e.g., daily life, movies and TV, interviews) and/or a specific aspect of disability your piece addresses (e.g., chronic illness, neurodiversity, Deaf culture).
- Please avoid using ‘Disability’ as a keyword—that describes everything on our site:)
- Which of these category(s) your piece should be published under. If you’re unsure, take a moment to explore previously published posts for each category 🙂
- An active Google Drive link to your submission.
- If we have your consent to post your submission on social media.
If you have any questions at all, please don’t hesitate to contact us at dacblogeditor@gmail.com. We love conversation!!
Much love and creative and meaningful crowing,
The DAC Blog Team
Note~ The DAC blog is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives license unless otherwise indicated.
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