Write for us
Want to write for us, suggest an idea or point out a mistake? We'd like to hear from you.
Email us at submissions@inkandequations.com. We read everything and reply within a week.
For anything else, a question, an idea or a mistake you've spotted, write to the editors at editors@inkandequations.com.
Who can write for us
Any student, at any school or college, anywhere. You don't need to be at a particular school or in a particular year.
What we're looking for
A piece for one of the six departments, built around one real scientific idea. The idea isn't decoration: it's the reason the story turns or the joke lands. When you send it, tell us which department it's for and, in one sentence, the idea it teaches.
Pieces can be any length that suits them, though most stories and essays fall between 600 and 2,000 words. Poems can be as short as they need to be.
Getting the science right
We bend the story, never the science. If you used sources, list them at the end. If your piece simplifies something, that's fine; say so, and we'll note it. Every piece is checked against reliable sources before it appears.
How you're named
Pieces don't show bylines on the page. Your name, in the form you ask for, stays with your piece and appears when someone cites it. Pieces written by the editors are marked as samples.
How to send a piece
Email it to submissions@inkandequations.com, either pasted into the email or as an attached document. In the email, tell us your name, your school, which department the piece is for, and the one idea it teaches. Before you send it, read our contributor terms.
We read every piece and reply within a week. If we'd like to publish it, we'll work through any edits with you and check the science together before it goes up. If it isn't right for us, we'll say why.
Corrections
If you spot a mistake in any piece, use Spotted a mistake? at the end of it. It goes straight to the editors. If we agree, we fix the piece and add a note under Corrections saying what changed.