Writer's Guidelines
Daughters newsletter, a publication of Dads & Daughters, provides
information to the parents of girls ages 9-16, and to other adults who care
for and influence girls. We're always eager to learn about new
research, resources, and ideas that can help parents understand and guide
the girls they love.
While most of our content is written in-house, we also use the work of
freelancers. Typically, freelance work is used for our 700-word departments
(they focus on areas such as mind/body, education, media, sports, technology,
and others) or "Let's Talk," pieces of approximately 1,300
words that discuss ways to better communicate with girls about important
topics. If you have published work about parenting teenage girls, or if you
have a special expertise in this area, please feel free to send us a query
letter about the story you'd like to write.
Before sending a query, please be sure to read several issues of Daughters
newsletter, so you'll know what kinds of stories we use as well as the tone
of our articles. You can see a complete issue by
clicking here.
For information on getting past issues, please
click here
.) Keep in mind that our articles focus on guidance for parents and advocates
of girls ages 9-16. Daughters is published six times annually, and
has a national readership. We buy all rights to the stories we purchase, with
payment made upon publication.
Daughters Columns
"Mothering Journey" and "Fathering Journey" are 650-word pieces that describe
the emotional journey of parenting, the joys and heartache of raising our
daughters (as we grow, too!). Journey columns are written in a first-person
parent voice. They relate a parent-daughter story and, along the way, provide
ideas other parents can use. "Consider This" is another 650-word column that is
a personal reflection on issues concerning girls that typically includes
personal perspectives from the view of a parent or girl advocate.
Again, read previous issues of the newsletter to find out what we use in these
spaces. For these columns, we prefer to see completed work rather than a query.
We consider and sometimes use previously published articles for the columns.