Contribute to Umbrella Splash
Have a story, idea, recipe, artwork, or perspective to share? Your voice could inspire, inform, and connect our readers.
Start Your SubmissionChoose How You Want to Contribute
Choose the path that best fits your work, story, idea, recipe, or creative perspective.
Write
Turn your experience, ideas, and perspective into a story worth sharing.
Submit an article, essay, personal story, interview, poem, creative project, or story about a person, organization, business, place, or idea.
Create
Let your creativity tell the story.
Submit original creative work that adds perspective and creativity to Umbrella Splash.
Cook
Share your culinary creations and favorite flavors.
Submit original recipes, drinks, traditional dishes, and cooking tips with the Umbrella Splash community.
Culinary Stories
Tell the story behind the food and culture.
Share family traditions, food stories, culinary travel experiences, and cultural perspectives.
Pets & Animals
Share stories of furry friends and loyal companions.
Submit stories, photos, and heartwarming experiences featuring pets and animal companions.
Tip Us
Know a story we should know about?
Tell us about a person, event, organization, business, place, or idea that deserves attention. You don’t have to write the story yourself.
Editorial or Promotional?
Knowing the difference helps us route your submission correctly.
Share Your Work
We’re looking for authentic stories, experiences, perspectives, ideas, and creative work that provide value to our readers. Editorial submissions are considered based on quality, originality, relevance, timing, and editorial fit.
Partner With Us
Advertising, sponsored content, product promotion, business promotion, and partnership opportunities are handled separately from editorial submissions.
Submission Guidelines
Please review these basics before sending your work:
- Submit original work or work you have permission to submit.
- Include your name and current contact information.
- Include a short author or creator bio when appropriate.
- Provide image credits and permissions when required.
- Provide sources for factual claims when applicable.
- Tell us if your work has been previously published.
Please note: Submission does not guarantee publication. All submissions are reviewed for editorial fit, quality, originality, relevance, timing, and available space.
Understand Our Approach
Want to understand our editorial vision before submitting? Learn more about our approach to stories, pitches, contributors, and editorial opportunities.
The Voices Behind The Pages
Meet the writers, artists, photographers, entrepreneurs, veterans, and creative professionals who help bring Umbrella Splash Magazine to life.
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Your Story Could Inspire Someone.
Have something meaningful to share? We want to hear from you.
Contribute to Umbrella SplashEditorial Pitch Guidelines & Submission Calendar
Have a story, idea, creative project, or perspective to share? Use these guidelines to prepare a strong editorial submission for Umbrella Splash Magazine.
Editorial Pitch Guidelines
Our editorial team looks for original, meaningful, well-developed stories that inform, inspire, and give readers something useful to take away.
Standard editorial submissions should generally fall between 600 and 1,200 words. If your proposed story requires substantially more space, please pitch the concept and expected length before submitting the completed article.
Images submitted for potential print publication should be provided at 300 DPI whenever possible. Please submit original, high-resolution files rather than screenshots or compressed social-media images.
Contributors are responsible for confirming that they have permission to submit photographs, artwork, logos, or other visual materials. Include appropriate photo credits and permissions when applicable.
We favor an Inspiring / Actionable editorial tone. Strong submissions should leave readers with a new perspective, useful information, meaningful insight, or something they can apply to their own lives, work, creativity, or community.
- Submit original work or work you have permission to submit.
- Bring a clear point of view, story, or useful perspective.
- Avoid overly promotional or sales-focused writing in editorial submissions.
- Support factual claims with credible sources when appropriate.
- Tell us if the work has previously appeared elsewhere.
- Include your name, current contact information, and a short bio.
We welcome responsible use of technology as a creative and editorial support tool. However, submissions should reflect the contributor’s own ideas, experience, expertise, reporting, and voice.
Contributors should disclose significant AI assistance when it materially contributes to the creation or development of submitted content. AI-generated material should not be presented as original reporting, personal experience, or firsthand work when it is not.
Submission Deadlines & Editorial Calendar
Umbrella Splash Magazine is published quarterly. Submit early whenever possible so the editorial team has adequate time for review, editing, layout, fact-checking, and production.
Winter / Early Year
Ideal for new-year perspectives, leadership, business, wellness, resolutions, planning, creativity, and fresh-start stories.
Spring Issue
Consider stories about growth, entrepreneurship, creativity, community, culture, travel, lifestyle, and spring initiatives.
Summer Issue
Strong opportunities include summer culture, food, travel, wellness, veteran stories, creators, entrepreneurs, and community impact.
Fall / Holiday Issue
Consider holiday stories, year-end reflections, business milestones, giving, community impact, creative projects, books, and inspiring people.
Ready to Pitch Your Story?
Review the guidelines, prepare your materials, and send us a story that informs, inspires, and gives readers something meaningful to take with them.
Submit Your Editorial PitchYour story doesn’t have to stop at the page.
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