Contributors

Write for Kettle Log

We publish guest pieces that help UK campers cook, pack or stay safe. If you know a subject well and can show your working, we would like to hear from you.

Topics we want

• Stoves and fuel: maintenance, repair, cold-weather use, fuel storage, recycling or disposing of cartridges
• Camp cooking that works on real kit: one-pot food, dietary needs, cooking for children or groups
• Keeping food safe with no fridge, sourced to official guidance
• Rules and access: how camping and fire rules work in a particular national park, forest or nation, cited to the body that sets them
• Kit care and low-waste camping: repairing, secondhand buying, packing systems
• Campsite know-how from people who run sites, cook outdoors for a living or teach outdoor skills

What we will decline

• Advice that puts stoves, barbecues or heaters inside tents and awnings, or that plays down carbon monoxide
• Instructions for lighting fires without the landowner's permission
• Thin product roundups, affiliate pages, or articles written around a link
• Anything about gambling, adult content, pharmaceuticals or crypto
• Text generated by AI and submitted unchecked, or rewritten from other sites
• Invented trips, quotes, statistics, experts or reviews

Length and style

Aim for 800 to 1,500 words in plain British English. Answer the question early and write for someone standing in a field with a stove that will not light. Include at least one link to an authoritative source, such as a public body, a professional organisation or a manufacturer's safety page, for each safety or legal claim. Any photos must be yours or properly licensed, with the details supplied.

Original work and disclosure

Pieces must be your own, unpublished elsewhere, and yours to give us permission to publish. You must tell us about any commercial interest, such as an employer, client, sponsor, free kit or payment connected to the piece or to any link in it. We state those interests on the page. Commercial links we agree to run will be marked with the appropriate link attributes, and we may edit for accuracy, length and house style, or remove a link.

How to pitch

Email [email protected] with the subject "Pitch for Kettle Log", and include:

1. Your proposed headline and the question it answers
2. A short outline, and the sources you plan to use
3. Who you are and why you know the subject
4. Links to anything you have written before
5. Any commercial interest

Please pitch before writing the whole piece. It saves everyone time.