Submission Guidelines

Dearest Writers,

You are the potential heart of Tango Diva! Thank you so much for sharing your experiences with us.

We want to publish your stories, and we want you to encourage your friends and family to share their stories. And we especially want to hear from women who have traveled solo and thrived to tell about it.

Our content runs the gamut from Style, Wellness, Inspiration and Culture to entertaining Reviews of destinations and travel services. Spend an evening with a bottle of Bordeaux perusing our site and familiarizing yourself with our style, content and attitude. By the time you get through our in-depth travel coverage, your bungalow might be spinning, but you’ll definitely understand what we think being a Tango Diva is all about.

Don’t Be Shy!
Whether this is your first submission or you’re a senior editor at Vanity Fair, we welcome you. We do reserve the right to allow moi to touch up your work and render it more in line with the overall voice and tone of our website. We love sassy personal narratives. Spicy? No problem. We’re happy to hear about an Alpine ski trip where you spent more time with your ski instructor on a bearskin rug than on the slopes. Critical? Bring it on! It’s important for your fellow Divas to know that chickens do abound on a certain country’s airline.

You, the Ultimate Insider
Also consider your local knowledge about the place you live or have lived, because one woman’s home is another woman’s exotic destination. Consider, too, your network. Does your best friend hand-embroider purses and sell them online? Is your mother famous for her paella recipe? Your knowledge is the backbone of Tango Diva, and not even the hottest travel writer is hip to your insider’s story.

Edit, Edit, Edit
We like for you to feel that your piece is on its final draft, not its first. Run your piece by friends or family before you submit it. And because we are an online entity, just remember that less is more—brevity is definitely the soul of online content.

*We are looking for a 500 – 1500 WORD COUNT.

Published Pieces Require Images!
If we select your piece, we will ask you for accompanying digital images. We want to see how hot your Roman tour guide was, or how fabulous you looked on safari in Kenya.

*Images need to be jpegs no bigger than 1 megabyte. Please please please do not insert images into your Word document. Send them along seperately.

Tango Diva Checklist for Writers:

1. Submit a final draft piece of 500 – 1500 words.

2. If we select your piece, we will contact you for companion images. Please have them ready. We do not publish stories without images.

3. Include a sassy photo of yourself!

4. Include brief biographical information about yourself.

5. Include contact information for the places you mention. If you tell us about a great restaurant in Delhi, make sure you furnish an address and website. We are a source of information above all, so if we can’t send our Divas there, we don’t want to hear about it.

Be Patient. You may not hear back for a few weeks nor see your article live on our site for over a month. We might be saving it for an upcoming special thematic issue, such as a Fashion Issue, Shopping Issue, etc. We haven’t forgotten you. Try to hang in there. We will not answer questions on an individual basis regarding the status of your article, so don’t ask.

Syndication Policy: Get ready for syndication! Tango Diva reserves the right to re-publish your piece with any and all of our partners.

Tango Diva looks forward to hearing from you. Our world is your world, and we want your world to be a part of ours. Viva the writers of Tango Diva!

Tango Diva Editorial Calendar!

Articles that fall under these topics will be given first priority for front page and newsletter featuring.

• January: Health, Wellness, Beauty, Spas, Body-Mind-Soul
• February: Be your own Valentine! Do what you LOVE. Go where you LOVE.
• March: International Women’s Day, Inspiration, Visionary Women, Philanthropic Travel
• April: Mommies and Kids, Mom’s Going Solo, Family-Friendly Getaways
• May: Party Places, Hot Spots for Singles, Top Jet Set Destinations, Best Beaches
• June: The Great Outdoors: Adventure Travel, Sports, Wild Vacations, Eco-Travel
• July: Celebrating Historical Destinations
• August: Young At Heart Month: Travel for the 55 and Over Set
• September: Fashion, Style, Designers, Trends
• October: Food, Wine, International Cuisine, Chefs, Vineyards, Restaurants, Cocktails
• November: The Arts: Museums, Artists, Theater, Opera, Symphony, Dance
• December: Holiday Shopping, Gift Guide, Give Good

Style Notes!!

When submitting to Tango Diva, please keep the following style guidelines in mind.

1. Article titles should be formatted with the country name, a colon, and then your brief yet witty piece title, as in, Italy: Visiting My Love Child with Richard Gere. Not, “Italy: Visiting the Love Child I had with Richard Gere, Who is Like So Totally Hot and Stuff and So How Could I Not, You Know?”
2. Articles should have ONE SPACE between a period and the next sentence. Not two.
3. Articles should not use excessive quotation marks or capitalizations.
4. Please use a two comma list, not a three comma list, as in, “I love milk, orange juice and coffee.”
5. Please become good friends with the M-dash, as in, “Woa—you almost killed me!” Not, “Woa – you almost killed me!” nor “Woa — you almost killed me!” nor even “Woa– you almost killed me!”
6. Do distinguish between your palettes and palates, its and it’s, etc. If I had a euro for…

Send Us Your Exciting Travel Stories Today!