Submit An Article, Poem or Story
We would love to publish your article, poem, or story. Seriously! Our motto is “Sharing Stories. Building Community.” We want to be the place where OLLI-USF members connect through their writing, just as our classes and social events enable them to connect in person.
Will your idea “work” in OLLI Connects? That’s easy to figure out. Just go to our home page and scroll through what we’ve published in the past. We’ve published every week since 2018, so you’ll find lots of examples.
The odds are good (9.5 out of 10) that your piece will be great. So, how do you get it to us? Send an email to connectsolli25@gmail.com with your article, story, poem, personal experience, or whatever attached, and we’ll take it from there. If you are sending us an illustrated story or article, it will help us immensely if you send us the photos separately, even if they are in your story. We have to disassemble submissions into separate text and image components in order to reassemble them into a “page” in WordPress–our publishing software. If we have questions, we’ll contact you, and we’ll try to give you a heads-up a couple weeks before your work goes live.
We’re part of the USF ecosystem and can’t officially recommend or endorse specific products or service providers. However, our articles are written by OLLI members and reflect their personal experiences. If you wish to send us an excerpt from a self-published book, a poetry chapbook, or other personal material we can provide a link to that publication in your story. Also, OLLI-USF has a travel “service” that enables OLLI members to share some really wonderful trips. Obviously, we can and will endorse that.
OLLI Connects was established to build community and showcase the creativity of OLLI-USF members. We love comments and appreciate your feedback. However, we also want our comments to be as useful as possible to all of our readers. While we would prefer to post all comments, we will not post these:
- Harassing comments: While we encourage sharing and the expression of different ideas, all comments need to be respectful towards our contributors and other commenters.
- Rude comments: If a comment includes offensive language, profanity, pornography, threatening language, libelous language, or harassing language, we will not post it.
- Anonymous comments: We accept comments only from people who identify themselves.
- Promotional comments: If a comment is solely promotional in nature, we will not post it.
- Off-topic comments: If a comment is not relevant to a posted article, we will not post it.
- Flame war comments: If a comment seems likely to set off a flame war—deliberately or accidentally—we will not post it.
Bottom line: We reserve the right to review all comments before posting them. Please leave comments that are respectful and useful.
If you have any questions on the commenting policy, please contact us at connectsolli25@gmail.com.
