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A current, verifiable credential
A licence, registration, or certification in the category you want to write for, in good standing, issued by a body we can look up directly.
Write for the imprint
Contribute a section. Not a service.
Pawrent Press commissions credentialed local pet professionals to write specific sections of city editions. Contributors are writers and researchers here — not advisors to our readers, and not a service the imprint provides.
01 — Requirements
What we look for.
Four requirements, all of them checkable. Replace the bracketed details with the imprint's own standards.
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Documented local standing
Evidence that you currently practise or operate in the city the edition covers — not simply that you know the subject.
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Comfort with sourcing
You can attach a primary source to every checkable claim and accept that an unsourced claim will be cut, however true it may be.
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Willingness to disclose
Any commercial interest touching your section is declared in writing and printed with your byline for as long as the edition is in print.
02 — The process
From expression of interest to printed byline.
We read every serious approach, but we only commission when a city file opens. Timelines depend on the publication calendar.
What you receive as a contributor
- A named byline with your verified credential and check date.
- A listing on the contributors page.
- Contributor copies of the finished edition.
- A fee, agreed in writing before you start. [Rate placeholder]
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Express interest by email
Tell us the city, the category, your credential, and the issuing body. One email is enough.
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Verification
The verification desk confirms your credential at source and records the date and method.
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Commission and draft
If a file is open for your city, we send a section brief, a word count, a deadline, and a source-note template.
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Check, revise, print
The checking desk comes back with queries; you answer them; the section goes to print with your byline and disclosure line.
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Re-verification each edition
Before every new edition we re-check your credential and ask you to confirm nothing in your section has changed.
03 — Before you write
What this is not.
Contributing is a writing commission. It is not a listing, an advertisement, or a route to being featured in a directory.
We do not pay for placement, we do not let contributors promote their own practice inside a section, and we do not pass reader enquiries on to contributors.
If you are looking to reach readers commercially, the sponsorship page is the correct place to start — and it is kept strictly separate from the editorial list.
Express interest
This form does not send anything on its own. It opens your own email client with a message ready to review and send.
Every section has a source note behind it.
If that sounds like the way you already work, we would like to read your approach.