The Wellingtonista

Write for the Wellingtonista

Do you want to write for the Wel­ling­tonista? We can hardly blame you, since we’re all so cool and good-look­ing. You should send us a guest post! We love guest posts.

What we will and won’t run

  • The Wel­ling­tonista is a blog about Wel­ling­ton. There­fore, your post should have some­thing to do with Wel­ling­ton. Pori­rua and the Hutt count; Kapiti and the Wair­ar­apa don’t.
  • We have a par­tic­u­lar take on Wel­ling­ton and your post should fit in with it. If you want to sound off about all the bike-rid­ing hip­pies get­ting in the way of your SUV, may we sug­gest the Dom Post let­ters page instead?
  • We’re gen­er­ally more inter­ested in report­age, his­tory, reviews, or oth­er things with a bit of meat to them than we are in pure opin­ion.
  • We are totally fine with photo posts.
  • If you’re think­ing of some­thing involving video, please get in touch first.
  • We’re not inter­ested in cross-post­ing any­thing that’s been on someone else’s blog. (If we are, we’ll con­tact you.)
  • We love giveaways and com­pet­i­tions but we won’t run guest posts to pro­mote them. We are happy to dis­cuss Wel­ling­tonista-organ­ised giveaways sponsored by someone else.
  • Don’t send us ‘guest posts’ if you’re being paid to write them. Full stop.
  • We will not run a guest post just because you send it in. The final decision on wheth­er to run a post is ours.

If what you’re think­ing of does­n’t fit with these guidelines, you’re still wel­come to pitch us; we might be inter­ested, but one of the reg­u­lar Wel­ling­tonis­tas will write about it.

Style guidelines

  • The Wel­ling­tonista has a voice and a style. We assume that you will have paid enough atten­tion to it that you’ll be able to write in it.
  • We reserve the right to edit any­thing you sub­mit.
  • Posts with major errors of gram­mar, spelling, and/or punc­tu­ation will be sub­jec­ted to mean-spir­ited ridicule and then deleted. Also Joanna may hunt you down.

Got all that? Send your guest post to info at wel­ling­tonista dot com and make sure ‘guest post’ is some­where in the sub­ject line.