Please be aware ...

Due to the volume of material we receive, we cannot acknowledge or return unsolicited items.

Special Events Magazine welcomes your contributions; please follow these guidelines so that your press release has the best chance of being published.

For personnel and business news (e.g., acquisitions, new locations, etc.)

Send text files or Word documents--no PDFs--to assistant staff writer Elizabeth Arnold at earnold@specialevents.com. Please include include your complete contact information, including your name, title, e-mail address, mailing address, phone number and Web site.

For news on products and services for special events

Send text files or Word documents--no PDFs--to assistant staff writer Elizabeth Arnold at earnold@specialevents.com. Please include a maximum of three digital images as JPEGs or TIFFs at 300 dpi minimum and 3 inches wide minimum. Do not send more images--our inboxes cannot accommodate them. Send images as attachments; do not embed them in documents. We will contact you if we need more images. Please describe your product or service as specifically as possible (avoiding puffery) and include your complete contact information, including your name, title, e-mail address, mailing address, phone number and Web site.

To send us information about an event you created for possible coverage

Send your story idea to editor Lisa Hurley at lhurley@specialevents.com. Please include a maximum of three digital images as JPEGs or TIFFs at 300 dpi minimum and 3 inches wide minimum. Do not send more images--our inboxes cannot accommodate them. Send images as attachments; do not embed them in documents. We will contact you if we need more images. Please include your complete contact information, including your name, title, e-mail address, mailing address, phone number and Web site. (See our editorial calendar, below.)

To suggest writing an article for us

Special Events Magazine welcomes varying viewpoints. You can see our editorial calendar via PDF directly below:

2009 Editorial Calendar

Link to Document

We work with three months' lead time, so a contribution for our June issue would be due March 1.

We pay $100 (U.S.) for contributed columns from experts in the industry. (We do not use freelance articles.) Send your story idea to editor Lisa Hurley at lhurley@specialevents.com. Our articles run anywhere from 700 to 1,500 words and share information and insight for event professionals. Articles that promote an individual or product or that defame others will be not considered. Because we publish our content both in print and online, contributors must complete our standard contract.

Please include a maximum of three digital images as JPEGs or TIFFs at 300 dpi minimum and 3 inches wide minimum. Do not send more images--our inboxes cannot accommodate them. We will contact you if we need more images. Send images as attachments; do not embed them in documents. Please include your complete contact information, including your name, title, e-mail address, mailing address, phone number and Web site.

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