BLOG SUBMISSION GUIDELINES
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Careers in Colour (CiC) is delighted to invite authors to pitch a blog for publication on our website. The purpose of our blog series is to share ideas about the importance of racial, cultural and linguistic diversity in Australian workplaces to our stakeholders (professionals, policymakers and community members), as well as to ensure that a diversity of voices are reflected in and credited in the discourse on this topic.
Please review these guidelines in full before you pitch an idea or submit your full blog upon acceptance of the pitch.
ABOUT us
Careers in Colour emerged as a grassroots response to the continued, and well-documented under-representation of people of colour and cultural diversity in Australia’s senior leadership. Since launching in late 2021, we’ve run a range of community building events across a range of sectors focused on fostering dialogue around the lack of racial, cultural, and ethnic diversity in a range of workplaces, as well as mobilise people to create change in their own spheres.
GUIDELINES
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If you're interested in pitching a blog, please submit a 100-200 word summary of your idea below.
Your pitch should contain the following information:
What specific issue relating to cultural, racial and/or linguistic diversity in Australian workplaces you would like to explore. Some examples of issues include the state of diversity in specific sectors (e.g. in consulting), intersectional experiences of diversity (e.g. women of colour) or a effectiveness of a specific policy or piece of legislation (e.g. Racial Discrimination Act).
The thesis/argument you would like to explore. A blog should be more than an explainer of a particular issue, and instead should offer an interesting and unique angle about what your view is about the issue.
At least one policy recommendation or practical step (e.g., an initiative within a workplace) about what can be tangibly done to help solve the issue.
Before submitting your pitch, we encourage you to do a quick online search to familiarise yourself with existing conversations on the topic. We welcome personal experiences, unique perspectives and thoughtful reflections that deepen the conversation in a meaningful way. We also encourage you to check out our previous blogs to get a feel for the topics we generally publish on.
We strongly encourage first time authors, and those from underrepresented and intersectional backgrounds including women of colour, LGBTQIA+ people of colour and people of colour with disabilities, to submit a pitch.
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CiC will inform you within a month of receipt if your idea has been accepted for publication. If accepted, you will need to write a blog that is between 800-1000 words and in plain Australian English. As blogs are designed for a general professional audience, make sure to avoid academic language or jargon to improve readability.
The first paragraph of your blog should clearly state and provide your main argument or thesis upfront. A call to action should also be provided in the form of between one to three policy recommendations or practical steps for how to overcome the specific issue you are writing about. A good policy recommendation or practical step is one that is specific and nuanced rather than being a generic solution that calls for greater funding or more resources without exploring limitations and barriers.
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As CiC is a completely volunteer-run organisation, we’d greatly appreciate contributors to review blogs thoroughly for spelling, grammatical and factual errors before submission. Depending on the contents and quality of your draft, there may be up to two rounds of edits and comments from CiC.
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CiC will not accept blogs that:
Disclose confidential or sensitive information, including internal organisational policies or statistics that are not public, without consent from the relevant individual or organisation.
Are AI-generated. We welcome the responsible use of AI tools for brainstorming, research support and/or proofreading. However, submissions should reflect the author’s own thinking, voice and lived perspective, rather than being primarily AI-generated.
Have been published or are being considered for publication elsewhere.
Have been previously submitted as university assignments, such as essays or policy briefs. However, you are welcome to adapt or submit an excerpt of a university assignment if it fits our submission criteria.
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If you would like to pitch an idea for a blog but aren’t sure where to start, check out some of these prompts here:
What impact does the use of AI in recruitment have for Australians from culturally, racially and linguistically marginalised backgrounds?
How can and why should Australian workplaces improve the collation of data about cultural, racial and linguistic diversity?
How effective is the Australian Public Service’s Cultural and Linguistic Diversity Strategy?
How and why should we prioritise the intersectional inclusion of groups including women of colour in Australian workplaces?
Why is it important for creative industries such as the book publishing industry to have more people of colour?
PITCH YOUR BLOG IDEA!
If you're interested in pitching a blog, please submit a 100-200 word summary of your idea here.
We strongly encourage first time authors, and those from underrepresented and intersectional backgrounds including women of colour, LGBTQIA+ people of colour and people of colour with disabilities, to submit a pitch.