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Publication Guidelines

Happily, Old Truronian news, features and stories have increased greatly over the years, but unfortunately the alumni relations team can’t grow to match the level of responses we are delighted to be receiving.

In the interests of fairness for all who take the time to submit contributions and to avoid disappointment, we have created the following guidelines to assist you when submitting articles and features. This also ensures we are able to organise and edit publications appropriately in line with the School's editorial guidelines and safe-guarding policies.

If you would like to contribute some writing, please take a moment to read through our recommendations.

Submissions for the Truronian magazine can be submitted by e-mail to:
TSConnections@truroschool.com

Guidelines

We always endeavour to be mindful that our audience spans a wide diversity of readers both in age, culture and background and our aim will always be to:

Uphold the School’s Methodist ethos
Avoid causing offence, anxiety or distress of any kind

Please be aware that articles may need to be amended to comply with space restrictions in our publications and the School’s editorial and safeguarding policies.

Contributors will not always have the opportunity to approve edited submissions before print. Any contributions that are deemed inappropriate, contentious or political will not be published.

Interview Questionnaire Responses

In the first instance please try to limit each response to about 200 words. If you have a unique story we will contact you requesting more information.
Try to avoid making your interview questionnaire responses read like a CV. We would love to know the smaller details, career highlights, more personal life stories and any interesting facts or achievements from your time since leaving school
When mentioning family and friends, please offer names to make it more personal, and please name any Old Truronians you are still in contact with (we will never publish names of OT’s who have expressively wished not to be named)
Please let us know if we can include your e–mail so that old friends can get in touch with you
Responses must be received before the given deadline date, otherwise contributions may not be included
We reserve the right to choose which publication and when the feature is published (this can depend on other content being included)

Obituaries Notices and Tributes

Short obituary notices are included in the monthly newsletter with longer tributes appearing in the Truronian magazine
Tributes for entry in the Truronian magazine are limited to 500 words
Please aim to keep tributes limited to the general Truro School days, the life and career of the person and any other noteworthy details, avoiding any very personal stories that would only be interesting to those who were personally close
We may need to highlight and/or shorten tributes depending on available space
Please send an appropriate portrait photo of the person to accompany the tribute
Obituary notifications and tributes must be received before the given deadline date, otherwise contributions may not be included.

Old Truronian News

We reserve the right to edit Old Truronian news where necessary
Noteworthy news will only be published if deemed appropriate for our audience
Due to the volume of requests received we are unable to advertise / publicise charity information. Where possible we will report fundraising stories but reserve the right not to share news of specific fundraising and charitable campaigns

Photos

Only high quality photographs can be included
Avoid sending any photos of others who have not allowed permission for you to do so
Photos may be cropped before publication
Submitted photos will be published where possible, based on photo quality and available space