Submission Guidelines
Published By Editor
East Valley Living welcomes your submissions. We encourage local individuals, businesses, community groups, and other organizations to submit community interest stories, newsworthy announcements and information about upcoming events for publication on EVLiving.com.
Publication service is free, however we limit news announcements about individuals, groups or businesses to one per month with an occasional exception depending on news of the day and readership interest in topic. There are no limitations on news announcements about local, non-profit, community-focused organizations.
We will consider informative guest articles and newsworthy announcements on most topics as long as they are not advertorial or commercial in nature.
We Will Consider Newsworthy Announcements such as:
- Book Reviews (new or recent)
- Business Expo (ticket prices okay)
- Business News Announcements
- Carnival/Circus/Fairs (ticket prices okay)
- Community events for the public (donation, low or no cost)
- Elected Officials (or candidates) Press Releases
- Heroic Recognition
- Entertainment venue/event (ticket prices okay)
- Fund raisers (most causes)
- Grand Opening (i.e., new business, new store, new location)
- Job Fair
- Movie Reviews (new or recent)
- Networking Events
- Open House (i.e., annual)
- Significant awards for individual or business (prestigious state or national level)
- Significant new hire announcements (XYZ hires state or nationally recognized John Doe)
- Significant promotions (ABC promotes Accounting Clerk to Treasurer)
- Sports event/venue (ticket prices okay)
We Will Not Consider Advertorial, Commercial & Non-Newsworthy announcements such as):
- Block Parties
- Business new product or service (unless patent pending or significantly unique)
- Classes/Lectures/Sessions (fee-based) for commercial businesses
- Private Parties (unless fundraisers, prefer after the fact)
- Restuarant menu items
- Sales on goods or services
- Yard Sales
We will not publish letters to the Editor, self-serving, opinionated, political, religious, individual or special interest group’s editorial commentary, or defaming, scandalous and/or otherwise slanderous submissions.
Calendar of Events
Our Phoenix Arizona Events Calendar is for events happening in and around the Greater Phoenix Area, Arizona and Utah. Add your events and activities to the calendar for free! Our Phoenix Event Calendar events can be added to the calendar quickly and easily. We strive to make this Arizona calendar of events as comprehensive as possible and welcome your events.
Submission of Content for News
By submitting content, you are giving East Valley Living permission to publish the information on its website located at http://www.EVLiving.com:
(a) you agree to grant to East Valley Living a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual, non-exclusive right and license (including any moral rights or other necessary rights) to use, display, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, distribute, perform, promote, archive, translate, in whole or in part. Such license will apply with respect to any form, media, technology known or later developed;
(b) you warrant and represent that you have all legal, moral, and other rights that may be necessary to grant us with the license set forth;
(c) you acknowledge and agree that the editorial staff reserves the right, in its sole discretion, to publish submitted content in whole or in part, may edit, modify, revise, archive or remove published content at any time, or may decline a submission for any reason, with or without notice.
(d) you acknowledge that if accepted and published, your information becomes public and other media outlets or news aggregation outlets may also pick up your news and links to article may also display in search engine results on the web or in news, thus giving your submission the potential for exposure on a worldwide scope.
Due to high volumes of email, we are unable to confirm the receipt or provide notice of rejection of any submission.
Submission Instructions
Type or paste the community story, news or event announcement into the body of an email addressed to Editor @ EVLiving.com. For security, we do not accept attachments unless we have requested them.
Minimum Requirements:
- Suggested title (subject to editorial approval)
- Minimum 200 words (not less than two paragraphs) Maximum 750
Content should address the “who, what, where, when, why”
Submissions containing fragmented sentences or little more than a few lines with the name of event, date and location will not be considered as a news submission and would be a better fit for our free Calendar of Events. - PLUS an About Us/Contact Us/Attribution paragraph that lists ways to contact you and may include a relevant link and short blurb. Links will be reviewed for relevance and inclusion is subject to editorial approval.
Carefully review the announcement for accuracy, spelling, punctuation and grammar prior to submission. A $50 fee may apply to requests for modification after a submission has been published.
If your submission is accepted, it will generally be published within three business days of receipt; oftentimes, much sooner. Please ensure that you submit your event announcements with enough lead time.
PR Agencies:
This is your opportunity to quickly get the news out the way you write it. We will consider guest articles, news and event submissions from you on behalf of your Phoenix area clients or from your national clients if topic is deemed a good fit for our readership.
Interested in a Byline?
If you are a local individual or business professional with expertise in a specific topic area that you believe would be of interest to the community at large and wish to submit informative guest articles on a regular basis, please contact us with your interest in obtaining byline status.
