Write for PinPoint – the UK geocaching magazine

Would you like to write for PinPoint? We’d be delighted to receive your submissions and consider them for publication.

What to Write

Write about something to do with caching that interests you! For example:

Your caching experience: You could write about how you started caching, or what benefits it’s brought to you.

UK Caching: Have you spent a really enjoyable day caching in the UK recently? Had a caching weekend? Or taken a UK-based holiday with a caching theme? Tell us all about it and let’s celebrate the best geocaching these isles can offer!

Events: Have you been to a great Event you’d like to tell us about?

GeoTech: Are you a bit of a geek? Do you have a techie skill or technique that you use in caching?

International: Although this is a UK-based magazine, we love to highlight international caching too. Whether you have a geocaching experience from your travels, or you live overseas, we’d love you to write for PinPoint!

If you have an idea but you’re not sure whether it would work, just drop us an email or send us a Facebook message and we’ll let you know!

Or you could write for one of our regular features:

PinPointer: An anonymous, provocative piece with the purpose of stimulating debate. (250-600 words)

Letters: Ask a question, reply to a previous letter or respond to an article. Shorter letters are more likely to be included – ideally around 100–120 words.

GeoPets: Do you have a cool dog or a crazy cat which loves to go geocaching with you? Let’s hear all about their animal obsession – and don’t forget to send a pic or two! (300-350 words)

Diary of a Cacher: Keep a note of all your geo-activity for a month – walks, camps, maintenance runs, events, puzzle solving … anything! (Please check the format used in previous issues and keep to a maximum of around 600 words.)

Please send pictures too!

A picture is worth a thousand words! While we can find images to illustrate your piece, we’d much prefer it if you sent ones you’d like us to use.

Send pictures which illustrate what you have written about.
Images must be of sufficiently high resolution to reproduce well in print. Original images taken with a camera or a phone and emailed should be OK. Images taken from social media sites (even if you uploaded them yourself) will have been downsampled and will probably not be suitable. If in doubt, please ask us to check.
Send images as attachments to your email; don’t include them in the body of your Word document.
Copyright is important. Make sure they are photos that you took yourself, or that you’ve obtained the express permission from the owner.
Include a brief caption for each picture. A few words will do – just so we know what it’s showing!

Writing Guidelines

We accept short articles and longer pieces, but please stick to a maximum of around 1200 words.
Double-check any GC codes and facts.
Please edit and proofread your piece yourself as well as possible before submitting.
If you’d like your article to appear in a particular issue, mention that in your email and ensure you submit it before the deadline (see below). Articles submitted well before the deadline will stand a greater chance of being published in that particular issue.
The editors cannot guarantee to publish every article submitted.
Published articles are subject to editing for grammar, style or readability or for reasons of space.

Send your articles or ideas to submissions @ pinpointmag.co.uk