Editorial Guidelines
Last updated 3 November 2026. Inflection cloud is a place for amateur writers to share personal stories. Read these guidelines before you send work. Publication is also covered by our Terms of Use.
What we publish
We want original personal stories based on your own experience and point of view. Fiction is welcome when it is clearly yours. We look for diverse, authentic voices and a respectful tone toward readers and the people in your story.
Original work
Send work you wrote. Do not plagiarise. If you quote someone else, keep it short and say whose words they are. We may decline work that has already been published elsewhere; tell us if it has.
Other people
If a story identifies a living person who is not you (by name, photo, or details that would identify them), you must have the right to tell that story in public, or you must change names and details so they cannot reasonably be identified. Do not use the Site to harass, defame, or expose someone else’s private life. We may edit or refuse a piece on that basis.
A story by or about a child must come from that child’s parent or guardian, or from someone with their authority. It may be published.
If you are named in a story, or you believe a story uses your work, email [email protected]. We will review it and may edit or remove the piece.
Language and harm
We welcome difficult subjects. We do not publish hate speech, or content that attacks people for who they are. We may edit for clarity. We may refuse material that is pornographic, that instructs serious crime, or that we think would put someone at genuine risk.
Length and craft
Aim for 500 to 2,500 words. Longer pieces are considered case by case. Write so a stranger can follow the thread: a beginning, a change, an ending that earns its keep. We may edit for clarity and coherence, and we may ask you for a fact or a source if the piece depends on one.
Images and AI
If you send a photograph, you must own it or have permission to publish it, including permission from recognisable people in it. Do not send a story or artwork generated wholly by AI and present it as your lived experience. If a tool helped you edit, say so in your email. We may still decline it.
Copyright
You keep copyright in your story. If we accept it, you grant us permission to edit for clarity, publish it on Inflection cloud, and promote it (including an excerpt and your name) on the Site and our social channels, as set out in the Terms of Use. You consent to those edits and excerpts. That is not a transfer of your copyright. The permission lasts while the story is on the Site.
Email us if you want a published story corrected or taken down. If the request is clearly from you, we will take it off the Site within 14 days. We may keep a copy if we need it for a legal claim.
Sponsored work
If a piece is paid for or sponsored, we will say so on the page. Advertising on older story pages is not a sponsored story.
How to submit
Email your story to [email protected] with your name as you want it published and a short biographical line if you have one. Attach the text as a document or paste it in the email. Do not use on-page forms; send email only.
We will try to reply. We are not obliged to publish, to give feedback, or to keep unpublished files after we have decided.
Games
Public games on Games are puzzles you can play, including the reading games. They are not a way to submit stories or photos. A name saved on a public top ten is visible to other players. Do not use a child’s real name.