Submitting A Story To The Beacon

Deadline

Our usual deadline is the 15th of the month.

If, for one reason or another, your story can't be ready by the 15th, we need to know by the 15th that the story will be coming, and when, in order to save space for it.

Byline

A story always starts with a two-line byline. A story about skydiving might start with a byline like this:

By Joe Jones
Andover Skydiving Club

So when you submit a story, be sure to tell us who wrote the story,  and what their relationship is to the story.

If there's no particular relationship to the story -- maybe you just wrote it because you thought it was interesting -- then we'll put For the Beacon as the second line of the byline.

Submitting A Story

The best way to submit a story is via e-mail. We can read plain text, Rich Text Format (RTF), or Windows Word (DOC) files, so if you can save your story in one of those formats, feel free to send it as an attachment. Otherwise, just cut-and-paste the story into the body of the e-mail.

If you can't do e-mail, a clean typewritten copy is second best, as we can scan it into our computers and avoid having to re-type it. If you can't do typewritten, then we can deal with handwritten if necessary. It either case, you can either drop it off at the Town Hall (tell them it's for the Beacon) or you can mail it to The Andover Beacon, PO Box 149, Andover NH 03216-0149.

Watch For An E-Mail Acknowledgement

If you send us anything by e-mail, we should reply to your e-mail as soon as we receive it. If you don't hear back from us within 24 hours, you should probably give us a call at 735-6099 to see if we ever received it.