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If you are a San Francisco Bay Area NWU member, your dues are supporting this website and it belongs to you. Submit your content anytime by emailing it to us @postings.

We are always looking for calendar events, editorials, news items useful to writers, jokes (the good ones!), and all sorts of other content, such as articles on media democracy, writers rights and offshoring (just to name a few).

Before you send us the first chapter of your romance novel, however, please read the following guidelines. They will save you (and our webmaster) from wasting time and effort.

Submission Advice and Guidelines

The most important rule to remember: send us copy that is ready to be posted!

Just imagine we were the SF Chronicle—you can't send the Chron an email saying

"I'm putting on a great event for medical writers on the first of the month at the Oakland Library, same as last year, you remember, so please spread the word!"

Much better would be something like this:

"Saturday, March 23: How to Break into Medical Writing
Five panelists who have written successfully for top health and wellbeing magazines will give you tips and tricks on how to get your first break in the field of medical writing. Each of our panelists leveraged their clips to later become book authors. Topics covered include alternative medicine, how to approach editors, and where to find accurate medical research on the web. Saturday, March 23, at the Oakland Public Library, 225 Grant St. in Oakland. To learn more email someone.

We update our web calendar once a week and send emails to members twice a month. So if you submit an item badly, two things will happen. You will probably miss the next posting cycle, and, you and our webmaster will waste time emailing each other back and forth until its right.

This site is also an official union resource, and the content of the site must reflect this. Guidelines as to what is acceptable on a union site are difficult to summarize; in the end anything that seems questionable to the webmaster would be decided upon by the Steering Committee. One clear example: we can't promote one member's work over that of another (so we can't be posting those excerpts from your romance novel). To get a general understanding of acceptable content, see About the NWU and the NWU's mission.