Readership

Australian Catholics is distributed to some 184,000 homes five times per year. We aim to appeal particularly to young people (secondary students) and the families of primary and secondary students.

Style

To address this audience, the language of articles should be straightforward and engaging. The style should be inclusive.

Please submit articles rather than reports or essays. The use of dot-points should be reserved for text-box material only.

Please avoid any fancy formatting. Single or double spaced in Times 12 point is preferred.

Content

Stories that describe the faith and life of Australians, both those well known and those less familiar are our stock in trade. Australian Catholics is also interested in stories about social justice, and about initiatives that foster an awareness of social justice in schools and communities. In short, we are looking at 'good news' stories.

We do not usually print abstract theological articles or stories about church politics.

Word limits

Please keep to agreed word limits. A 1,000 word piece, for example, will generally run to two pages. Articles beyond 1,000 words will only occasionally be considered.

Rates

Writers' rates are by negotiation and will be agreed at the time of commissioning.

Please supply our office with details of your ABN, if available.

Any costs you wish to claim in relation to articles should be cleared with the Editor prior to incursion.

Photographs

Please ensure images are 300 dpi, and a reasonable size for print publication. Our page size is 205mm wide x 260mm. (eg A half page pic should be 102.5mm x 130mm at 300dpi). This generally means a .jpg should be more than 1Mb in size for a small pic. Please send .jpg files to email better. Large files over 5MB and upto 20MB size can be emailed directly to Maggie Power This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it . We accept digital or images taken on film.

When photographing subjects/events, please submit several views for designers to select which will work best in print.

NB: Avoid using a felt tip pen on back of photos… the ink often marks subsequent pics.

For photography info/help please don’t hesitate to email Maggie Power This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Copyright

Copyright for articles and images will revert to the author following publication. We receive numerous requests for articles and images to be reproduced either in whole or in part, and would appreciate being informed at the time of submission, if agreement to such a request is unacceptable to you.

Usually it is smaller, local groups who make such requests-editors of school and parish bulletins and the like. All reasonable efforts will be made to contact you in this regard, prior to giving permission to reproduce articles/images.

Similarly, articles and photographs and images which appear in Australian Catholics may be reproduced on our website. Further payment will not be made for such use. Please advise at the time of submission if you are unhappy with this arrangement.

For more information about our copyright arrangements please email me at This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it .

Thank you for your interest in Australian Catholics and please don't hesitate to contact me if I can clarify any of the above for you.

I look forward to working with you.

Michael McVeigh
Editor