All Asia Affairs (AAA) is committed to publishing a wide range of content from analytical pieces to commentaries to recommendations. We welcome pitches from our Members year-round. Articles need not be original publications and may be work that you have published elsewhere but have derived, summarised, or edited it to be more suitable for online readership. However, AAA requires that content based on published work on other platforms (e.g. academic journals, op-eds on newspapers, etc) must carry a declaration from the author.
In general, we prefer short to medium length articles over long-form essays. That means we are more inclined to publish articles between 700 – 1000 words as we are fully aware that the bulk of our readers do not have the time to digest longer prose. Our Members are far more likely to read articles that are keen and clear rather than wordy and discursive.
If you have yet to write your article, you may wish to first pitch us its scope and the key points you will make. These key points will be featured as a summary of the article above your main body, so please be sure that those are your key points before you email us.
If you have already written your article, you do not need to pitch us. All that is required is for you to send your article to us with the key points written at the top.
Accompanying images are useful in creating visual context to online articles. If you have images to submit, please do so in the same email as your article. You are responsible for ensuring that all images submitted are either owned by you or under Creative Commons licenses. If you do not wish to submit any images, the editorial team may decide to include images where they see fit and without seeking your prior permission.
We appreciate if you submit your full name and a short bio so that Members have a better understanding of your point of view and for you to be able to benefit from the exposure and experience gained. However, we also deeply value the need for privacy and are open to publishing unnamed work, though on a case-by-case basis. If you have a request to make regarding attribution, please do not hesitate to email the editor.
In addition to taking in crowd content, we do invite selected individuals to write for us if they have the right expertise. If you have been invited to write for us, you will be listed as a Guest Writer to distinguish your contributions. Regular Guest Writers may be further invited to be Columnists. If you are a Guest Writer or a Columnist, all your articles will be accompanied by a short bio.
We do not yet have a formal commissioning scheme for pitched articles on our free-to-access pages. We aim to provide clear guidelines for issuing honorariums in the near future, though we are open to discussing compensation on an individual basis. Specialist articles submitted in support of our corporate partners are compensated on a per-project-basis.
Authors possess sole rights to any work that is published under their own name, even if they have been edited by us prior to publication. You are not required to inform AAA if you use your work elsewhere. When you submit content to us, you are granting us a license to publish your work in full or in edited form, and to republish it in other media in perpetuity.
Specialist contributors are not entitled to exclusive rights for all commissioned work. Rights to such content are typically exercised by AAA unless otherwise specified in individual service level agreements.
If you are not an author but would like to use our content for commercial or non-commercial purposes, please read the Using Our Content page for more information.
For a more detailed explanation about the type of work we publish and our editorial policy, please visit the About Us page.
We have periodic vacancies for full-time, part-time, or contract work with competitive pay and benefits. Many of our positions are available as a remote-working arrangement. For current vacancies, please visit our company page on LinkedIn.