Submit your work to the NOTIS Newsletter & Blog

10/29/2022 13:02 | Brianna Salinas (Administrator)

NOTIS welcomes content submissions for all of our publications on a rolling basis, and we want to hear from you! Our publications include:

  • The NW Linguist Blog
  • NOTIS News Quarterly 
  • NW Linguist Annual Newsletter (December)

This is an excellent opportunity to put your name and your voice out there, to draw attention to your work, and to be recognized by your peers.

The Northwest Linguist NOTIS News Quarterlythe official printed publications of the Northwest Translators & Interpreters Society, are designed to share organization and industry news, useful tips, fun facts, and educational pieces with our members.

We are currently accepting submissions in the following areas:

  • Articles or essays on: 
    • approaches to translation
    • interpretation skills
    • translation reviews
    • T&I technology
    • local language access developments
    • legislation affecting language professionals 
    • personal/professional anecdotes 
  • Translations of: 
    • poems 
    • short prose or excerpts of prose
    • recipes
    • songs 
    • etc... 
  • Comics, memes, and other bits of humor!


Submissions should be written in English and — excepting translations — should fall somewhere between 200 and 800 words (longer pieces will be considered for the blog or the annual newsletter; shorter pieces, for our quarterly newsletters or blog). Relevant images may also be submitted alongside or independent of the written piece.

If submitting a translation, please send both the original version and the translation. Copyright notes and source references should be included as well, if applicable.

Submissions will be evaluated by NOTIS's Publications Committee and will be edited for content, grammar, and space limitations. 

Please send submissions and any other queries to our publications editor, Brianna Salinas, at social@notisnet.org. We look forward to publishing your work!

Best wishes,
The NOTIS Publications Committee

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