Sunbury Life welcomes stories that celebrate our diverse community, local creatives, social enterprises, not-for-profit groups, and community events.
We offer a platform to emerging and experienced writers, story tellers, culture keepers, and citizen journalists.
We encourage submissions from across the Sunbury community, particularly stories about:
- Your own experiences
- Family history
- Local issues
- Sunbury sport
- School reports / events
- Your suburb
- Community events
- Sunbury history
- Human interest stories
- Food
- The arts
- Environmental matters
How to submit your story
- You can send your story as an email or in any text document – never a PDF (they are a pain to work with)
- Attach any images as file attachments – not in the body of your text document. Include a caption for each photo (who, when, where) – and include details of the photographer
Click here if you have an event to promote.
We appreciate your contributions and look forward to hearing your unique stories and experiences from Sunbury.
Submission guidelines
- All content should be your own with no copyright infringement
- Include the author’s mobile phone number in case the editor needs to check anything
- The content should be of interest to the people of Sunbury
- The author or the content should have some connection to Sunbury
- Any claims should include a reference to the fact (ideally a website link)
- Is it easy to read? Write for someone with Year Ten comprehension skills
- Use UK English grammar using free programs like Grammarly to spell check
- All articles must have an author byline. You can use an alias only after discussing with the editor
- Length – 200 – 500 words for shorter articles or 750-1000 for feature articles
- Provide a headline for your story (even if it’s only a starting point for us)
- We don’t publish nasty opinion pieces, clickbait, or articles that have already been published elsewhere
- No text PDFs
Images
- Include high-resolution JPG images with your article – landscape format preferred
- Images must have the photographer’s name and contact details, and captions so readers know who or what they are looking at
- Send photos as attachments to your email
Final check
- Please do one last check that people, places, dates, and companies are correct