Write Here, Right Now?: On (Your) Writing for NYMG

Alex, Nicole, and I get great pleasure out of the work that we do here at NYMG and we really love it when we hear that others get some joy out of the work that we do as well. Not Your Mama’s Gamer gives us the opportunity to share our passion with all of those who are willing to hear and/or read.

I am constantly surprised by the number of people that email us asking if they can do a guest blog on a certain topic or game. It’s flattering that people want to share their passion with us as well. So after some long and hard consideration we have decided to open ourselves up (or at least the blog) to another writer or two. We are looking for people critically minded feminists who love games. We are not replacing any of the great women who already write here at NYMG, but we are interested in offering more content on a regular bases and perhaps some new perspectives.

In order to choose a new writer we are asking that interested parties send us 2 sample articles that they think would be appropriate for NYMG. Send us these pieces by the end of May so that we can look over your work and determine whether or not we will be able to offer you a spot here at NYMG.

Please be advised of several things: 1) Writing for NYMG is not a paid position. We do it for the hell of it and it actually costs me money to pay for hosting, domain registry, and such; 2) Just because we aren’t able to offer you a writing spot at NYMG doesn’t mean that your writing wasn’t up to par. It may just mean that we couldn’t accommodate everyone. We will attempt to respond to everyone. One thing that you can also consider is starting your own blog/site to hone your craft; 3) the chosen writer(s) will be guest blogging with us for a minimum of 2 months; and 4) while we do occassionally (actually very rarely) get free copies of games to review 99.9% of the games that we talk about on the blog and podcast are personally bought, rented, or conjured.

If you have more questions about writing for NYMG please feel free to email us at nymgamer@gmail.com, find us on FB, or even send us Twitter messages individually or using the other social media we use.