Network magazine, published by the Canadian Women’s Health Network, is a forum for critical discussion and debate for existing and emerging women’s health issues.

We publish lively, provocative, informative, direct, practical, accurate and creative articles on Canadian women’s health topics. Most articles are analytical and include contact and resource information for our readers. Our readership consists primarily of health intermediaries: health educators, researchers, activists organizations and practitioners. We publish all articles in French and English.

 
We’re looking for:

• News articles (500-800 words)
• Feature articles (800-1500 words)
• Reviews/Highlights (100-300 words),
• Graphics (photographs, cartoons, illustrations, cover art)

Guide for contributors

Network articles contribute to a respectful, critical debate on women’s health issues, providing a national perspective (when appropriate), and illustrating:

• Effects of gender, poverty, sexuality, race, class, disability, age and violence on our health
• Gaps in health research, policy and practice
• Effects of health policies on our day-to-day lives
• Ways women can take charge of our own health
• Ways women organize to change health policy and practice
• Effects of research on women’s health policy, practice and activism
• Inequalities and injustices in health service and research
• Current health issues and impact upon women lives
• Linking women’s health concerns across the country

We also publish product, book, video, magazine, website and other resource reviews.

How to contribute
If you have a story idea you wish to submit to Network, please send a written query by post, by email to: news@cwhn.ca or call: (204) 942-5500 ext. 20.

 Include:

• Your article idea and tell us why it fits the editorial content of the magazine
• Writing credits if any
• A brief sample of your writing style (e.g. a “lead” paragraph for the prospective article).

All this should be no more than one page, please. You need not query us for shorter submissions (just send them in). Unsolicited hard-copy submissions will be returned only if accompanied by a self addressed stamped envelope.

Ensure that your article is written using “plain language” (plain language ensures that your writing is accessible to a wide range of reading audiences).

The CWHN is a not for profit organization and our magazine accepts no advertisements; as such we are unable to pay our contributors for any submissions, but offer all contributors a free subscription to Network for one year.

Authors retain copyright to their work, while the CWHN retains rights to the designed piece as it appears in the magazine. We also retain the non-exclusive right (we share them with the author) to archive and reuse the article on our website and in third-party indexes and databases. CWHN may receive a small annual royalty payment on indexed materials from third parties. The CWHN must be contacted regarding other uses.

For more information contact:
The Editor
Phone: (204) 942-5500, ext. 20
Fax: (204) 989-2355
email: news@cwhn.ca