The Chronicle invites a variety of contributions:

Letters to the Editor

To comment on news stories in the main section of the newspaper or to opine on views expressed on the Opinion pages, contact Letters to the Editor.

Please limit your letters to 200 or fewer words... shorter letters have a better chance of being selected for publication.

To comment on news stories in specific sections of the paper, for example Business, Datebook, Food or Sports, please contact the Letters sections of those specific sections:

Some notes on Letters to the Editor from Editorial Page Editor John Diaz.

ALL FIELDS REQUIRED:
First name:
Last name:
E-Mail:
Phone:
City:
State:
Country:
Comments (200-word limit):

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Join our Audience Panel

You're invited to become a member of our San Francisco Chronicle/SFGate.com Audience Panel. You'll have the opportunity to provide vital feedback, evaluate ideas and products and discuss content and current events via our online surveys and in-person focus groups. Click here to join and get more information about The Chronicle/SFGate Audience Panel

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Open Forum

550 or fewer words is the going length. With rare exception, we won't run a writer's work more than once every six months. There are lots of voices out there and we'd like to hear as many as possible. Please fill out the form below and hit submit to have your work considered.

ALL FIELDS REQUIRED:
First name:
Last name:
E-Mail:
Phone:
City:
State:
Country:
Short Bio of yourself (100-word limit):

Comments (600-word limit):

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Commentary Pieces for Sunday Insight

Insight, a Sunday commentary section, aims to provide a forum to shake up conventional wisdom and provoke fresh thinking. Have a piece about an issue in the news that.s unusual in its approach and uncommonly well-written?

Mad? Outraged? Ready to rant? Have an only-in-the-Bay-Area story? A story that illustrates why the Bay Area is such a great place to live? Tell us what works. Do you know someone who is tackling a problem or meeting a challenge in a particularly innovative way?

Please submit a maximum 900-word piece or a shorter pitch that contains the salient points of your piece.

ALL FIELDS REQUIRED:
First name:
Last name:
E-Mail:
Phone:
Short Bio of yourself (100-word limit):

Submission (900-word limit):

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Datebook Calendar Listings

The Chronicle and SFGate.com have partnered with Zvents in an effort to offer the Bay Area's most comprehensive entertainment listings, both in print and online. Zvents gives artists, publicists and venues the ability to submit their own listings to sfgate.com, and they will be considered for publication in The Chronicle. You can ensure the timely inclusion and accuracy of listings by entering them yourselves at events.sfgate.com. Here's how to do it:

Go to events.sfgate.com and open a free account. Click on "Add a listing" to fill out the event entry form. If your event takes place over multiple dates, you must check the box for "This event repeats or occurs multiple times" in order to enter all of the event's dates and times.

Adding an event to the database is free, but listings must be entered at least three weeks in advance of publication in order to be considered for inclusion in The Chronicle. As always, the listings are printed on a space-available basis at the discretion of the editors.

For more information on entering events into zvents, go to www.sfgate.com/ZGBD.

Datebook listings cover San Francisco, Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, San Mateo and Santa Clara counties. In addition, we have a Destinations section that covers a select number of the same kind of events in the Napa-Sonoma, Monterey-Carmel, Tahoe-Reno and Las Vegas areas. Because of space limitations we often don't have room to include events in other California areas.

We welcome jpegs for events as well, but no .zips or .tiffs, please.
1. Send just one jpeg (300 dpi or more) per e-mail to listingsphotos@sfchronicle.com, and one per event.
2. In the subject line write (in this order): topic (NIGHTLIFE/CLASSICAL/ART/DANCE, etc.), dates, artist's/production's name and venue.
3. In the body include caption information (who and in what production), photographer's name (for credit), a short press release repeating info from subject line, plus address, phone, web address, time, prices and media contact.

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