Submit a Guest Post
Share your systems thinking with a global audience of practitioners, researchers, and curious minds. We publish original guest posts on complexity, feedback loops, organisational learning, and systems change. Our editors read every submission personally and reply within five business days.
Reach an engaged audience
Our readers are practitioners in organisational design, sustainability, education, and public policy. Your ideas travel further here.
Grow your voice
Publishing on The Systems Thinking Alliance gives your work long-term credibility and search-engine reach through our established audience.
Personal review
No bots. Every submission is read by our editorial team. We aim to reply within five business days.
Why submit a guest post here
The Systems Thinking Alliance is a home for readers who care about connections, feedback loops, and the deeper patterns that shape organisations, communities, and societies. When you submit a guest post to us, you’re joining a growing archive of thoughtful essays that are read, shared, and cited by practitioners around the world.
Our search visibility means a well-written guest post keeps earning readers for months and years after publication. Past contributors have gone on to speaking invitations, consulting engagements, and book deals off the back of a single piece placed with the right audience.
Who reads our work
Our audience is mid- to senior-level practitioners across the fields where systems thinking creates real leverage: sustainability strategists, organisational designers, public-sector leaders, educators, product and service designers, complexity researchers, and independent consultants. Most readers arrive through organic search, LinkedIn shares, and academic citations.
Roughly two-thirds of our monthly traffic comes from organic search, which means your guest post — optimised well with a clear meta title and description — will keep working for you long after it is published.
What we’re looking for
We welcome original essays, case studies, and explainers that help readers see the world as interconnected systems. Whether you write from research, practice, or personal experience, we want work that challenges assumptions and offers useful frameworks.
Topics we especially love:
Submission guidelines
To keep the quality bar high for readers, we ask contributors to follow a few simple principles:
800–2,000 words is the sweet spot. Longer pieces welcome if the depth calls for it.
Content must be original and not previously published elsewhere online.
Clear, thoughtful, evidence-based. We prefer specific examples over broad claims.
You’ll be credited as the author on the published post along with a short bio.
A strong meta title and description help your piece reach the right readers through search.
Upload a JPG, PNG, or WebP image (max 2 MB) that captures the spirit of your piece.
Ideas for your first submission
If you’re not sure where to start, here are angles that consistently resonate with our readers:
How the submission process works
From draft to publication, here’s exactly what to expect:
- Submit your post — Fill out the form below with your title, content, featured image, and SEO details.
- Editorial review — Our editors read your draft within five business days and check it against our guidelines.
- Feedback & edits — We may reply with light editorial suggestions or clarifying questions.
- Publication — Once approved, your post goes live on thesystemsthinking.com with your byline and author bio.
Submit your guest post
Please fill in every required field. We recommend keeping a copy of your draft before submitting — the form does not autosave.
Frequently asked questions
Do I need to be a published writer to submit a guest post?
Not at all. We publish first-time writers and seasoned authors alike. What matters is the quality of the thinking, not the resume behind it.
Can I include links to my own site or work in my guest post?
Yes, within reason. One or two contextual links to your work in the body of the post, plus a link in your author bio, is fine. Purely promotional pieces will be declined.
What happens if my guest post isn’t accepted?
We’ll let you know by email. A decline isn’t a judgement of your ideas — sometimes the timing, angle, or fit isn’t quite right for our audience. You’re welcome to resubmit a revised version.
Can I republish my guest post elsewhere later?
Yes, provided you wait at least sixty days after publication and credit The Systems Thinking Alliance as the original publisher with a link back to the piece.
How long does the guest post review typically take?
We aim to reply within five business days. Occasionally, during periods of high volume, it can take a little longer — we’ll always follow up.
Do you pay guest contributors?
At this stage we do not offer payment for guest posts. In return, contributors receive a byline, author bio, and permanent home for their ideas on an established systems thinking publication.
Can I pitch an idea before writing the full piece?
We prefer to review completed drafts because ideas often shift as they’re written. If you have a genuinely unusual angle you’d like to sanity-check, feel free to sketch it in the form and we’ll respond with a quick yes/no before you invest more time.