Are you interested in writing for us?

We are looking for Christian women who aren’t afraid to get candid and share their struggles while pointing readers to Jesus.

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Understand Our Mission

Before you do anything else, please familiarize yourself with why we write.

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Read Our Guidelines

Make sure you know what we are looking for from our guest authors.

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Submit Your Pitch

Before writing a post, we require authors to submit a pitch to see if their idea is a good fit for our audience.

How beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news. Who publishes peace, who brings good news of happiness, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, ‘Your God reigns.’

Isaiah 52:7

We Are on a Mission

We believe every one is struggling with something. Wouldn’t it be nice to know you aren’t in your struggle alone? That someone else knew what you were going through?

Please consider sharing your struggle
so another woman knows she isn’t alone in hers.

We want you, Christian woman, to know that you are not alone. You belong with us. Even if you feel like an imposter, you’re not. If Jesus has made His home in your heart, He has made a place for you in ours. We all struggle, but Jesus is the answer. It is our hope that every post on our website is written from a point of open honesty about life as a Christian woman living in today’s world.

Click here for a summary of our beliefs.

Guest Post Guidelines

Write for Our Target Audience

Our target audience isn’t so much one person, as a group of friends. We want to reach Suzy the homeschool mom with eight children, her best friend Tabitha who enrolled her only child in public school, and her niece, Lexi who just got engaged. We want to reach the woman who works from 9-5, the stay-at-home mom, and waitress working the night shift. Why? Because it doesn’t matter who you are or where you’re from, if you are a Christian, we are your sisters.

The women in our target audience are the ones who know the struggle is real. They love Jesus, but they don’t always feel like they are the perfect representation of the Proverbs 31 woman. We want them to know they are not alone. They belong with us, you belong with us, even if you feel like an imposter, you’re not. If Jesus has made His home in your heart, He has made a place for you in ours.

Note: Even though we do keyword research and optimize our posts, we do not write for search engines, we write for Christian women. We believe it is more important to reach hearts than page one of the Google results. And we trust that God will bring the women to our website who need to be here.

Relate, Don’t Tell or Teach

It is very important to us that when women come to our site, they leave encouraged. We aren’t here to lecture our readers or tell them how to live their life. We want to come along side other women and walk through life together. We all have our own struggles, but together, in Christ, we are united.

We ask that each post includes a personal struggle and some type of encouragement. You can share 3 keys to living on purpose, as long as you open with a struggle you have had or how God has grown you in this area. This is huge, we reject, or request rewrites, on posts that are not personal / relational in nature, or that are more preachy than encouraging.

In that same vein, we require every post to point women to Jesus. While sharing a personal struggle, your experience should be the platform for sharing your faith, not the focus of the article. Instead of telling your story, we encourage you to reflect on how God saw you through it. We want women to relate to your struggle, and see God’s truth or provision in a similar struggle in their life.

Content Must Be Original & Exclusive

IMPORTANT: We do not publish content written by AI. Candidly Christian is all about real women, with real faith, sharing real life.

We ask that posts are roughly 500 – 1,000 words and original content that is published exclusively on Candidly Christian for at least 90 days. Your post will remain on Candidly Christian for the life of the site, but after 90 days you can share your content elsewhere if you so desire. Just know that Google will ding sites for duplicate content, so you may want to change your post title, opening paragraph, and make some other minor changes. We would also appreciate it if you would link back to us and note that it was originally published on our site.

Submit Your Pitch

Guest Post Process

Here’s What to Expect

After familiarizing yourself with our website, mission, and target audience. You can use the form here to let us know who you are and what you want to write about. If you aren’t sure what to write about, check out our list below.

If you have any questions, please check the FAQ section at the bottom of this page. There is also room on the submission form for any questions that haven’t been covered.

Once we receive your post pitch, you should hear back from us in 1-3 business days. We will let you know at that time if we want to read your finished post. We will also send you our formatting and additional content guidelines at that time.

If your post is accepted, we will request an author photo and let you know the date it will be published on our website.

Please know that we do minor editing for SEO and readability. If any significant changes need to be made, we will discuss them with you.

We do not have promotional requirements for our guests, however we do encourage you to share the post you wrote with your following. You can share quotes and summaries from your piece, or simply let people know you wrote for us and share the link. Whatever works best for you and your audience (you know them best!).

Optional: We encourage our writers to check in and respond to any comments left on our website during the first week the article is live.

{{Guest bloggers wanted}} Candidly Christian is looking for Christian women who aren't afraid to get candid and share their struggles while pointing others to Jesus.

Please note, not all submissions are accepted. Acceptance is based on availability and proposed content.

When you submit a guest post pitch, you will be added to our database and we will send you periodic emails for Christian authors (such as opportunities to be part of an anthology) and a list of Scriptures for writers.

Looking for Something to Write About?

Please remember your post should contain a personal struggle you have experienced. If a topic below is not something you identify with, please leave it for someone else. Your writing should be conversational/relatable, not written like a Bible study.

This series on our blog includes something you struggle with, and what the Bible says on that topic.

  • Bible Verses for When You Feel Like a Failure
  • Scriptures on the Power of Prayer
  • Bible Verses for When You Feel Overwhelmed
  • Bible Verses on Faith
  • Scriptures on Gratitude
  • Bible Verses on Joy
  • Comforting Scriptures
  • Scriptures on Our Identity in Christ
  • Christian Identity Scriptures

Prayer is a huge part of life for Christian women. Any struggle you have in this are, is most likely more common than you can imagine. Here are a specific struggle areas you might consider:

  • Prayer journaling
  • Scriptures to pray over an unsaved friend
  • Fight your battle on your knees
  • Becoming a prayer warrior
  • Prayers for my pastor
  • How to pray for your friends
  • Digging deep in prayer

While most of the posts on our website are evergreen, we do accept holiday themed posts.

  • Easter
  • Mother’s Day
  • Christmas
  • Thanksgiving
  • Memorial Day
  • New Years

We believe mental health is vital for every woman. We also believe every woman is fighting an invisible battle in her head. Share yours so another woman knows she isn’t alone in hers.

  • Insecurity
  • 5 Ways to Deal with Anxiety
  • Christian Faith and Depression
  • Dealing with Fear Biblically
  • Dealing with Worry as a Christian
  • Biblical Ways to Overcome Fear
  • How to Stop a Panic Attack
  • How to Deal with Fear
  • Social Anxiety
  • Self-Image
  • Self-Worth
  • Identity in Christ

More information coming soon.

  • When Christians are hateful…
  • Stepping out in faith
  • How is faith lived out through works?
  • Nothing can heal if you don’t deal with it…
  • How to spend time with Jesus, even when you’re busy

More information coming soon.

  • Thankful in your season with God.

More information coming soon.

  • What to do if my family is unsaved

More information coming soon.

FAQ

You’ve got questions, we’ve got answers. Please check here before contacting us.

By submitting your post to Candidly Christian, you are granting Heather Hart exclusive first publishing rights. This means the content must be previously unpublished. However, 90 days after it is published on our site, you are free to use it however you see fit. It will stay on Candidly Christian for the life of the site, but you can publish it on another website, social media, in a book, or submit it elsewhere.

Yes! You can submit as many posts as you want. After your first post is published, you are welcome to apply to become a regular contributor, but if you just want to write an occasional guest post, that’s fine, too.

All posts on Candidly Christian need to be beneficial to the readers even if they don’t buy a book, click a link, or subscribe to whatever, etc. That said, we try to support our authors whenever possible. If your book, course, whatever, is appropriate for our audience, we can add a pitch for it at the end of the post. Here’s an example.

Yes. You are allowed one link in your author bio. But it cannot be an affiliate link.

We do minor editing for SEO and readability. If there are any content changes, we will touch base with you first. As we normally only change headings or key phrase usage, We don’t normally ask for final approval. If there are any significant changes, you will be consulted first. Beyond that, if you want to look over the final draft, you will need to make a request.

Yes – within reason.

While we do not have set guidelines on this, any links should fit naturally with the content. We also encourage authors to consider how many links they would want a guest blogger to use when posting on their site. And again, no affiliate links.

Finally, we will check any included links to make sure they are relevant and appropriate for our audience.

Yes. While we encourage all of our authors to write for the reader, not search engines, we do optimize all of our posts for SEO. We will handle this behind the scenes, but if you wrote your post with a specific keyword/phrase in mind, please let us know.

No. All our contributing authors (regular and guests) are volunteers.

No. All our posts are required to fit our mission statement. It doesn’t matter what you’re promoting or how big your budget is, if it doesn’t qualify as a guest post, we will not publish it.

No.

Within reason. You can request an update or revision for consideration at any time. We promise to consider all requests, but cannot promise a speedy turnaround time, or even that we will approve all requests.

We will request an author photo after your finished blog post has been accepted. Beyond that, we provide the graphics for all of our posts. If you have any additional graphics you want included with your post, please discuss it with Heather when she requests the finished post.

We do not have a set wordcount limit for author bios, but do request you keep them brief.

Yes. If your post pitch is accepted, you will receive our formatting guidelines via email. However, they are also listed below.

While our ministry focus is Christian women, we do not have a “women only” policy and would consider posts written by men if they were relevant and fit within the umbrella of our mission.

That said, all of our posts are required to include a personal struggle, therefore we do not accept posts written by organizations.

We only share statistics by request. However, if you submit a request, we will send you what we have.

Formatting Guidelines

  • Use block formatting
    (do not indent, or manually add a line break between paragraphs).
  • Use H2 and H3 styles for headings (not bold formatting).
  • Use title case for post title and headings.
  • Add emphasis with bold or italics, do not underline or use all caps. 
  • All pronouns referring to God should be capitalized.
  • Bible, God’s Word, and Scripture should all be capitalized.
  • Note the Bible translation(s) you use.
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