Introducing our community publishing platform ✏

Chloe here, engagement editor of COLAtoday. I want to let you know about an exciting platform we’re launching.

Our goal is to help Soda Citizens become the most engaged + in-the-know locals they can be. And I know we can’t do that alone. Which is why we’re officially opening up COLAtoday to you, our readers, through a community-publishing platform called Voices.

We’re going to publish reader-submitted content right on our site, then push it out to our subscriber + follower audience of over 80,000.

Here’s what we’re looking for:

• First-person. Experiences about local life.
• Passion pieces. Write what you know. Are you an expert about a subject that relates to your city? Have a strong opinion about a local topic? Do you have a first-person story that needs to be told?
• Experiential articles. Do you have a unique job or see the city in a different way because you just moved here? Just what we’re looking for.
• Links + details to provide more context. This can include social media or in-person quotes from others.
• Photos. The more the better. (Video, too.)
• 500 words or less. We’ll publish longer ones for sure, but try to keep those word counts down.

Are you interested in submitting an article? Learn more + submit here.