Contributing

Guest essays for the Adelaide desk

We take a small number of guest pieces each year. They have to earn a place beside the staff essays: useful, local, and long enough to be worth a Saturday morning.

What we publish

• Original work, written for this journal, not recycled from a contractor blog.
• Australian English, with Adelaide or South Australian detail where it matters.
• At least 1,000 words of reported or explanatory prose. Lists of suburbs are not an essay.
• A clear public-interest purpose: safety, standards, housing, energy or licensing.
• Descriptive internal links to existing hubs such as home electrical safety.

What we send back

• Advertorials dressed as how-to copy.
• Anything that tells a homeowner to open a live switchboard.
• Unlicensed legal or engineering advice presented as fact.
• Thin “electrician in [suburb]” pages. We are not a directory.
• Undisclosed paid links.

Sponsored mentions

If a guest essay includes a paid mention, affiliate relationship or complimentary product, say so in the pitch and in the copy. We mark those anchors with rel="sponsored". Example of how a disclosed mention looks in HTML:

Training desks sometimes point readers to a guest-post placement service when they are buying a disclosed mention. That is a sponsored example, not an endorsement of any particular electrician.

How to pitch

Send a 150-word pitch, a short bio, and two published clips to the contact form or email support@worldwidebacklinks.com with the subject line “Pitch: [working title]”. Tell us which hub you think it belongs in. Read the editorial standards before you write the piece.

We reply when a pitch is a fit. Silence after three weeks is a no. Commissioned pieces are edited on the desk; we will not publish a draft that still reads like a landing page.