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Contributor Submissions

Thank you for your interest and support!

TS Contributors Empower, Educate, and Inspire.

When contributing to TS, we ask writers to share topics that are near and dear to them. We don’t assign topics as we’ve found writing about an individual passion leaders to more inspirational and empowering articles. Articles should have a personal tie to the writer.

What topics/stories/interests would you like to share with the TS Community?

Content Guidelines:

Article should be 800 or more words – submit as Word or Google Doc. Please no PDF’s as they are hard to (re)format!
Include 3-5 horizontal high res. photos (sent as separate attachments).
You set the draft deadline, just give us a heads up when we can expect it.

Contributors Receive:

Contributor profile includes: headshot, brief bio, social handles.
Article promotion via: FB, IG and in our Newsletter.
A Trail Sisters Trucker hat of your choice.

If you’re interested in contributing please connect with us through the form below.

ChatGPT, Google Gemini and Artificial Intelligence…

We want to take a moment for formalize our thoughts on AI.

Over the past few years we’ve watched as Artificial Intelligence has started to creep into many aspects of our lives. In some places it adds value and in others we question the value. As we read submissions from contributors behind the scenes we’ve had many conversations about if we should publish something clearly generated with AI. After months of debate and dialogue we’ve settled on the following.

Trail Sisters values our contributors unique and personal voices. We will seek to publish authentic, educational, inspirational and empowering content.

We will not publish generated content.

What is generated content? AI written text includes;

repetitive or generic language
lack of a natural voice (personality)
overuse of the em-dash
consistent sentence lengths
surface level depth
repeated use of the rule of three (this and this and that…)
no nuance to the text.

Let’s face it, we’ve all read something and had the hunch it was generated and not inspired.

Can you use AI?

Yes, look… this isn’t college or university. AI is a great resource and at a fundamental level it’s a better Google search. (At least in our current opinion) You may use AI for specific research that becomes part of an article that YOU write.

Your voices matter and we want to share them (and their imperfections, and ramblings and non-sequiturs)!