DePOT Blog Submissions Guideline 

We are looking for 750-1,000-word blog post with a clear message or argument, and a suggested title.

Tips:

• Write for a general and specialized audience, as this is our public-facing website. No jargon!  
• Use Chicago-style citations  
• If possible, send a photo to accompany your post with citation (photos must be under 2500 pixels) 
• If you are not a DePOT affiliate, please send a writer biography (200 words max)  

Email submissions or questions to deindustrialization@concordia.ca, and the DePOT blog is edited by Dr Steven High.

Topic ideas:

• Responses to current events  
• Discussions on upcoming publications  
• Reflections on recent research trips  
• Notes on recent conferences in related fields, protests and solidarity events, marches, workshops, roundtables… 
• Posts commemorating important anniversaries or key historical events  
• Blog posts written as coursework in a class related to deindustrialization  
• Discussions on representations of deindustrialization in pop culture 
• Personal essays about how your work in deindustrialization studies intersects with lived experience