Contribute to COCOLILY & CO.

Celebration & Inspiration for Her Business and Lifestyle.

Thank you for your interest in contributing to our platform. We celebrate the stories, expertise, and creativity of female entrepreneurs worldwide. To ensure a great experience for contributors and readers alike, please review the guidelines below before submitting your article, story, or idea.

What We’re Looking For:

We accept articles, styled shoots, events/celebrations, interviews, essays, and creative content that resonate with our audience. Topics may include (but are not limited to):
Business tips & entrepreneurship advice
Personal branding & marketing
Wellness, and self-care
Fashion, beauty, and style tips
Travel and leisure ideas for busy women
Success stories and profiles of inspiring female entrepreneurs
We welcome original content that is informative, empowering, positive, and aligned with our mission.

Editorial Guidelines for Contributors.

To be considered for the magazine or journal/blog, articles must adhere to the following criteria:

  • Preference will be given to those who demonstrate a genuine interest in our readers and provide content that is informative or inspiring.

  • We accept entrepreneur related content, small business tips from experts related to marketing, PR, wholesale, social media, branding, websites, etc., lifestyle for women including entertaining, travel, recipes, wellness, self-care, fashion and beauty along with industry only wedding styled shoots (ie. featuring Chefs or business owners etc.)

  • We accept submissions from photographers and their creative teams, female-led brands, bloggers, writers, fashion and beauty brands.

  • Submissions to direct the audience to visit your site or try out your product will not be accepted. This falls into the category of sponsored content at which point it will need to be reviewed for a sponsored post based on our aesthetics, specs and guidelines.

  • Editorial content must be high-quality and original content.

  • We reserve the right to edit your submission for brevity, grammar, readability and quality. If too much editing is required, it will not be published.

  • Your submission must be of interest and relevance for our readers. It is our editorial decision on choosing if it should be published. You retain the copyright to your writing, but once it’s submitted to us, we reserve the right to use, reuse and refer to it including any images provided to us for publication.

  • You accept that we reserve the right to edit and publish as we see appropriate for COCOLILY & CO. (magazine, journal), including the headline title, and which date or post it will appear in.

  • Confirm with your submission that it is your own original content and not infringing any copyright. (If using a quoted extract, please state the source or provide the link).

Please note the distinction between an editorial and a promotional post before submitting content to us.

  • An editorial is valuable content to the reader or an inspirational story.

  • A promotional post is the promotion of your product, service and business.

  • Should you submit an article that contains promotional content, we will contact you with specs for a sponsored featured. In addition, we have the right to not publish the content.

  • These guidelines are in place to ensure a high quality publication, aesthetically appealing images and unique experience for our audience including the content and images we publish.

Meeting our Editorial Standards.

At COCOLILY & CO. we have a certain aesthetic and high standard for your story/photos to be considered. A truly unique story, event or space and expertise small business tips in an article format. Photography is of utmost importance as it must be professional, high quality and fit our aesthetic. You must send a selection of high resolution, professional images in order to be considered.

Submission Guidelines.

Originality:
Articles must be original and unpublished elsewhere (including personal blogs).
We do not accept plagiarized or overly promotional content.

Word Count:
Typically between 800 and 1,500 words.
If it exceeds 1,500 words, we reserve right to publish an abbreviated version.

Style:
Write in a clear, engaging, and conversational tone.
Use respectful language.
Avoid jargon and overly technical terms unless clearly explained.

Format:
Submit your article as a Word document or Google Doc.
Use 12-point font, double-spaced.
Include a short bio (50–75 words) with your submission and a high-res headshot if available.
Provide links to your website or social media if relevant.

Images:
Submit high-quality JPG/PNG images separately in high resolution (min. 300 dpi).
Ensure you have the rights to any images used.
Please provide proper credits with links to all and any contributors, vendors, models, photographers, references in your submission. Format should be as such: FULL NAME/COMPANY NAME/WEBSITE LINK.
We reserve the right to add/edit images, if required.

Reminders.

  • Story ideas should be submitted in the form of a letter, with one idea per letter with the above specs and guidelines.

  • You have to be the copyright holder of the images being submitted, or you have permission from the copyright holder to submit any images you submit.

  • By submitted your content or story, you give COCOLILY & CO. permission to publish and post online via the website/journal, social media, print and/or digital publication.

  • By submitting you give permission to COCOLILY & CO. to crop images if required to fit pages and layouts of the magazine/journal and use your work in any of our publications, website, social media, videos, marketing materials or any other forms of COCOLILY & CO. content.

  • We/Editors of COCOLILY & CO., retain editorial and artistic selection on which images (if any) are published. No final draft will be provided of the layout.

  • COCOLILY & CO. does not provide complimentary copies of our print publication nor do we pay for content, stories, and styled shoots.

  • If accepted, a release form will be sent to you.

  • Due to the volume of queries, we will only respond to those being considered for publication.

How to Submit.

Please email your submission to cocolilyandco (at) gmail (dot) com with the subject line:

Contributor Submission — [Your Article Title]
Include in your email:
Your full name and contact information
Your bio and any relevant links
The article as an attachment or a shareable link

Review Process.

We aim to review submissions within 4-6 weeks.
We will only contact you if we wish to publish your content.
We may contact you for edits or clarification.
Publication is not guaranteed; we reserve the right to decline submissions that don’t fit our editorial focus or standards.

Rights & Compensation.

By submitting, you grant COCOLILY & CO./COCOLILY Magazine the right to publish your article both online and in print.
You retain copyright of your work.
This is a volunteer-based contributor position; currently, we do not offer payment.

Questions?

If you have questions or ideas for pitches before writing, feel free to contact us. We welcome the voices of driven female entrepreneurs and innovative creatives who have something meaningful to share.