Guidelines for Op-Ed Submissions

The Daily Star Opinion welcomes your submissions on issues which are relevant, timely and of public interest. If you want to submit an article or pitch an idea for an article for the page, please read the following guidelines first:

To submit an article for consideration for the opinion section, email it to us at [email protected]. 

Articles sent to The Daily Star for publication must be exclusive to the newspaper.

For publication in our regular newspaper op-ed pages, we accept submissions on timely, well-researched opinion pieces and essays.

Your article must be within 1,000 words and be emailed to us as an attachment as a Word document (.doc or .docx format). Please do not send a pdf files.

Please mention the name of the source of information and include hyperlinks for the data/information that you use in your article. 

Please include a picture of the author and a one sentence biography of who the writer is/does. For guest authors: Please send an updated CV for our verification process.

For articles pertaining to special national and international days or commemoration of events, please submit the article at least a week in advance so that we may be able to let you know our decision on publication.

After submission, please allow us 5-7 days to respond. If your piece is selected, we will certainly get back to you. We try to respond to each submission, but if you do not hear back from us within 5-7 days, please feel free to submit your article elsewhere.

We also accept articles for publication on the Opinion page on our website as Online Exclusive. Ideally, these pieces should be shorter - below 800 words.

Sometimes, articles may need to be shortened, so if there's a crucial part that you want to keep, please highlight that portion.

Please do not send press releases. They will be deleted without being opened.