Share Your Story With Us

Hearing Life magazine often includes articles from people just like you. We love to have empowering stories that help others on their hearing loss journeys in some way. We welcome submissions from hearing health care professionals, experts and everyday people living with hearing loss.

What we like to include

  • Personal stories of success
  • How you or someone you know overcame an obstacle
  • How a new technology has changed your life and can help others
  • A strategy or technique for success that you want to share with others
  • How you advocated for accessibility in your community
  • New research making a difference for people with hearing loss
  • Interesting stories of hearing loss in the workplace or at school
  • A book review of something related to hearing loss
  • Stories that will surprise or inspire people, make them think differently or offer an opportunity

What we can’t include

  • Promotional pieces
  • Highly technical information
  • Items that need heavy editing or detailed fact checking

Submission guidelines

  • Send articles in Word format to magazine@hearingloss.org.
  • Include high-resolution photos or illustrations as attachments.
  • Include caption details for each photo submitted.
  • Include a brief bio of yourself, an email where you can be reached by readers and a headshot.
  • We may not be able to use previously published articles, so please let us know if it has appeared in other publications.
  • Word length varies, so focus on clear, concise language that can easily be understood by the general public.
  • Don’t write more than is needed to make your point. Overly long articles with big blocks of text are often difficult to edit to an easily readable format and will be avoided.

Notification and process

Hearing Life magazine is published seasonally, and we will notify you if we plan use your article in an upcoming issue. All articles will be edited for style and space and accuracy. We do not provide financial compensation for articles.