To submit your work, please read our submission rules and then fill in the form below.

Submission rules

• The Spectrum is funded by the National Autistic Society and readers’ subscriptions. We welcome submissions on any topic from people across the whole of the autism spectrum.
• Work that appears in The Spectrum is credited using the author’s first name or alias only. This is done to protect the author's privacy.
• Book reviews are the most popular thing with readers of The Spectrum, so please consider submitting one. They can be about any book, not just books about autism. If you do not want your review to appear in other National Autistic Society publicity about that book, please make this clear.
• When you send in a piece for publication, you will be using our submission form which includes information giving your permission for us to publish your work in the magazine.
• The National Autistic Society promotes The Spectrum on social media using pieces taken from the magazine.
• Although each issue is themed, submissions on any subject are welcome. Only some of the letters and articles in each issue will follow the theme. All submissions may be edited, especially for privacy, libel, and for fitting the space available.

Submission form and permissions

The National Autistic Society is here to transform lives, change attitudes and create a society that works for autistic people. The Spectrum magazine aims to connect autistic people through their content including letters, articles, creative writing and images. 

Completing this form does not guarantee that your submission will be included in The Spectrum and all submissions that do appear may be edited.

By completing this form, you are giving the National Autistic Society, and other organisations that we work with, the following permission:

• Your content may be used in any print, online or electronic publication produced by the National Autistic Society or its associated companies and charities (eg Autism UK Ltd). This may include marketing and fundraising publications.
• You will be identified by your first name (unless you have asked us to use an alias).
• If you let the National Autistic Society hold the copyright to your submission you will need to include the correct copyright notice if you reuse the submission elsewhere. If you know you want to reuse your piece elsewhere, you can choose to retain the copyright in your first name or an alias.
• If you agree, your content may occasionally be supplied to other organisations so that they can publish in print, online or electronic form to highlight issues related to autism and to promote our charity. For example, it might appear in a magazine, on another organisation’s website. We will only supply these for relevant and appropriate use by organisations we know. If you don’t wish this to happen, please tick the relevant box below, or please indicate if you would like to be consulted before we do this.
• Please note that we would be unable, due to legal constraints, to make use of any image or work that looks materially like an image that is copyright or trademark protected.

Sending your submission

We accept submissions as Word documents, PDFs or JPEGs. Please use the free WeTransfer service to send us your file. Generate a WeTransfer link and paste the link to your file(s) below. Do not email the file(s) directly to the Spectrum, as we cannot accept these without a completed permissions form.

To generate a WeTransfer link, you can follow their instructions. If you need help doing this, please email spmag@nas.org.uk

For security reasons, we will not accept links to unknown sites.