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Editorial Submission Guidelines

Please read through the following carefully before submitting queries or proposals.

WestCoast Families Magazine is a free, full-colour, full-gloss family and parenting magazine, published nine times per year in British Columbia, Canada. Our publication promotes the unique, vibrant West Coast lifestyle popular among today’s parents. Our readers are generally well-educated, affluent families with children ranging in age from birth to early teens. They are free thinkers, socially conscious, environmentally aware and eager for the best in everything, be it the latest non-plastic baby bottles and toys, organic products and foods, the latest in high quality children’s wear or outdoor activities that take advantage of B.C.’s natural beauty. WestCoast Mom is a publication dedicated exclusively to parents and is published within every issue of WCF. Topics of interest include women’s health, relationship and dating issues for married and single parents, fashion, interior design, profiles, and work/life balance.
Our editorial line-up is planned out months in advance, so please be aware that time-sensitive content may not be appropriate. All queries should be related to families, parents or children and should be relevant to Canadian readers, particularly in the B.C. area. We accept freelance queries for regular columns (Health, Travel, Finance, etc) as well as features and profiles. Please view our Editorial Calendar to get a better feel for our content before submitting a query.
Please Note: WCF only accepts editorial submissions and queries via email. Please read through a few issues of our magazine (you can download current and past issues online), as well as our Editorial Calendar, before sending in your proposal. Because we are a small office and receive many such queries, we can only respond to those writers we are interested in working with. If we have not replied to your proposal within 6-8 weeks, feel free to submit your ideas to another publication. We do not publish reprints.
If you are a subject-matter expert in a particular field and work in that field (i.e. a financial adviser writing about investments; a registered nutritionist writing about healthy eating habits, etc) then please be aware that we do not accept articles that only highlight or promote your business. All editorial in the magazine must be objective, balanced and represent a variety of opinions, experts or businesses in a particular field. We will not publish articles merely to promote a single business or service.
WCF generally pays freelance writers anywhere from $50 to $100 per article, payable upon publication. Subject-matter experts can choose to include a brief bio of their business in lieu of payment. Payment is negotiated once a proposal has been accepted and the article has been accepted for publication, and is based on the length of the article, the amount of research involved and the experience of the writer. 
The deadline for articles (and photos) is set by the editor once the story is assigned to the writer. Story length can be anywhere from 600 to 1,200 words, and will be set by the editor. The editor reserves the right to terminate the work on any article in progress if the article is no longer relevant or needed. If a completed article approved for publication is not published within one year of submission, then the writer will receive a 50% kill fee. Stories may not be submitted to any publication defined by WCF as sharing the same market area as WCF without prior written approval.
WCF follows the Canadian Press Stylebook for spelling, grammar and writing style. Please make sure that your work follows the guidelines set out in the Stylebook and that you use Canadian spelling and grammar at all times.
To submit a story idea or query:
Please send a brief description of your proposal, your experience, and a writing sample via email to editor@westcoastfamilies.com. Please let us know if the proposal is time-sensitive. If you are writing a story on a particular issue or news topic, please include a list of research references and sources for quotes. The editor reserves the right to contact any and all references at any time to verify any information in the article. Microsoft Office Word file attachments are acceptable. If you choose to paste an article/proposal into the body of your email, please remove any extraneous formatting marks/characters before sending.

Thank You!
WestCoast Families Magazine

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