In Visible Ink is a safe space for shared storytelling in collaboration with our many partners, and to help catalyse these stories to drive momentum towards a more socially cohesive and plural society, underpinned by the values of freedom, tolerance, respect and fairness.
We invite you, as Citizen Readers and Citizen Writers, to join us on our journey to reveal erased perspectives and histories, to see the unseen, and make it matter.
We are curating art and stories as opportunities to reflect, respond and have honest conversations about the alternative history of colonisation, slavery and genocide in Australia and around the world.
We welcome ideas for stories as well as artistic responses, reflections and calls to action that can lead up collectively from truth to a hopeful future in Western Australia and around the world.
We would love to hear from artists and writers, curators, filmmakers, academics, lawyers and change-makers who are shining a light on our history in empathetic ways, or working to address ongoing systemic discrimination and increase intercultural understanding and healing.
How to Pitch
We are a small team working across a number of projects, this digital publication being one of them. We attempt to reply to all pitches and submissions, but please keep in mind that this may take some time. Please be aware that we are a non-profit, largely volunteer-led organisation and we are not currently able to remunerate contributions to In Visible Ink.
In Visible Ink only accepts pitches via the form below.
Your pitch should be no more than 250 words and set out clearly what you want the article to be about and include relevant hyperlinks for our reference.
In Visible Ink commissions specific types of articles and we will send you further specific information on each in response to your pitch. These include:
In Visible Opinions: personal/opinion-based essays that respond to your own experiences and current affairs
In Visible Reviews: reflections on your experience reading or viewing books or films, or critical analysis of these texts
10 Ways to See Differently in (city): a piece of listicle format sharing ways to see your city’s history or culture differently, whether through exhibition and gallery visits or attending specific places, events or tours
In Visible Ink may also accept pitches for content of varying formats (such as Q&A’s with or profiles of prominent figures, open letters, and news or thought pieces).
In Visible Ink publishes content from a variety of contributors of varying abilities and experience and invites anyone to become a Citizen Writer for our platform. We want our digital space to be inclusive of all voices, whether you are a seasoned writer or not. It’s about creating dialogue and displaying our collective learning journey.
That said, we will sometimes need evidence of your ability to write. If you are pitching a long form piece, please include any relevant examples of your prior journalistic or creative writing.
Once we have received your pitch, we will aim to look over it and reply as soon as we can. Keep in mind that we are a small team and although we will try, it is possible that not all pitches will be replied to.
If we accept your pitch, we’ll give you a more detailed brief, a submission deadline, and some advice and ideas on how we’d like to see the piece evolve.
In some cases, we will need you to submit a short 25-30 word bio with your finished piece. We will ask for this at time of briefing.
We expect all work to be fully fact-checked, accurate, original and not containing plagiarism. If you are referencing any facts, studies, or quoting from other sources please hyperlink them.
We expect pieces submitted to us to in a near-publishable state. We will send you a copy of our style guide before you begin writing for us.
Once the piece is published on our site, we will promote your article on our social media channels.
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