Interested in contributing to The Spoke?
The Spoke is Early Childhood Australia’s blog, featuring writing from policy makers, researchers, academics, sector leaders and early childhood practitioners. We publish thoughtful, well-evidenced pieces that explore early childhood research, policy and practice.
We welcome high-quality article submissions that contribute meaningfully to sector conversations. While we’re unable to publish every submission, all articles are reviewed by our editorial team. If you do not hear from us within 10 working days, please assume we are unable to proceed with publication at this time.
We accept original submissions as well as articles that have been published elsewhere, or pieces that link to other publications. The Spoke is also a space to share and highlight strong projects and initiatives across the early childhood sector.
Blog Guidelines
Opinion pieces and blogs must aim to be provocative or informative in a way that initiates public debate. Please ensure that you have fact checked your work thoroughly and include references where appropriate. ECA reserves the right to edit submitted content to either read appropriately or fit within our guidelines.
- Word limit: ECA’s preference is for articles to be between 500-800 words in length. We will accept shorter and longer blogs where appropriate. Articles can be submitted in a word document or in the body of an email. Do not include any HTML coding in your submission, or PDF documents.
- Text with hyperlinks is encouraged.
- Blog pieces are not to be used as an advertising channel or for commercial purposes.
- We require at least one image per blog post. Please send images and any required permissions or right to use of photography with your submission. If you do not have a photo to include, ECA can supply one. Please ensure that photos are of reasonable quality and include the source of the image.
- We require a short biography from all writers. Please include a 50-100 word biography and ensure that you include a photo of yourself which is at least 400 pixels wide (preferably a jpeg).
- Please provide any website, twitter or blog details that you wish to add to your biography.
This blog is intended as a starting point for conversations and big ideas, differing opinions are welcome, but if you use offensive language or personal attacks, you will be banned from our site. We have no tolerance for any abuse towards writers or our publishing team. If you wish to comment anonymously, please use ‘Guest’ and use the email thespoke@earlychildhood.org.au.
