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.