Write for us
We want pieces that leave the reader’s next document better than the last one.
Flintword takes guest articles from people who write, edit or commission documents at work. You do not need to be a professional writer. You need something specific to show, and a willingness to be edited on a site that talks about editing all day.
What we would like to read
- Specific document types: minutes, handover notes, tenders, job adverts, policy pages, incident reports, complaint replies.
- Writing in a particular sector, such as clear letters in housing, health or local government, where you know the pressures first-hand.
- Grammar and punctuation questions people actually argue about in offices, with evidence from a good reference.
- Editing other people’s work: how to give feedback, how to run a sign-off process, how to keep a style guide alive.
- Accessible writing, including writing for readers with English as a second language.
- Honest accounts of what writing tools, including AI drafting tools, do well and badly in real work, with examples.
Before-and-after examples get our attention faster than anything else in a pitch.
What we will decline
- General articles on ‘10 tips for better writing’, or anything a reader could find in the first search result.
- Promotional pieces for a product, course or agency, and articles that exist mainly to carry a link.
- Anything on gambling, adult content, pharmaceuticals or crypto, whatever the angle.
- Text generated by a tool and submitted without real editing or first-hand experience.
- Invented statistics, surveys, case studies or quotations.
Length and style
Aim for 900 to 1,500 words in British English. Answer the question early. Show examples. Cite a primary source for any fact or figure, and link to it, so that we can check it.
Original work and disclosure
Your article must be your own work and must not have been published elsewhere. You keep responsibility for its accuracy, and for having permission to use anything you quote or include.
Tell us in your pitch about any commercial interest: if you work for a company you mention, if someone is paying you to write the piece, or if a link benefits you or a client. We publish that information alongside the article where it is relevant, and links must be genuinely useful to the reader. We edit everything for clarity and house style.
How to pitch
Email [email protected] with ‘Pitch’ in the subject line, and include:
- A working title, written as the question it answers
- Three or four lines on your argument, with one example edit
- Why you are the right person to write it
- Any disclosure, as described above
- A link to something you have written, if you have one
Please do not send a finished article unless we have asked for it. We reply to pitches we can use.