June 8, 2010

Calling all budding journalists!

Prom season is under way and if you haven't already had yours, it's not far off.

We'd love to hear about your school prom, and we're planning to run a regular feature over the summer looking at what schools have been doing all over the country, and we need your help!

If any of you are planning a career in journalism or writing for the web, this is a chance for you to get some exposure and have something to write on your university applications to boot. We'd love to gather a team of informal reporters who'll write an article for us about their school prom, and if there is a photo or two as well, that would be brilliant.

Fancy being a reporter for your school prom?

What we'll do for you
•   We'll send you some guidelines so you're not facing a blank page alone
•   We'll edit your article a tiny bit to make sure it's as polished as possible
•   We'll put a bio about you at the end of the article with a link to your site if you have one (and a picture of your shining face too if you want!)
•   You'll get all the credit and a permanent web page link that you can send out to family, friends, talent scouts ;o) But seriously, we'll keep the page safe with a permanent link so you can use it on applications for work experience / internships
•   We'll send you a little pressie to say thank you

What you need to do
•   Drop us a line through the contact form to say you want to join the team so we can send you guidelines
•   Write the article – around 500 words long is fine and that's only one page in Word.
•   Write a little bio about yourself (remember the golden rule of web writing: would you be happy for your Gran to read it?)
•   Send any pictures if you're happy for them to be published on the site

How does that sound? Drop us a line through the contact form if you're interested!