Call Out for Newsletter Articles and Photos

Did you know you can contribute to our community newsletter? Anyone can submit an article, photo or artwork for inclusion in Your Deer Run Villager! You can send your submissions to the Deer Run Community Association (DRCA) or even directly to the publisher for consideration in multiple community newsletters.

2022 Cover Theme

We are always in need of cover images. Our 2022 cover theme is People and Places in Deer Run,

Editorial Content

Editorial content is informative, educational, or entertaining, such as news, reports, letters to the editor, photos of an event, a column ‘presented by’ a subject matter expert, and entertainment such as games, comics and caricatures.

Submissions

The newsletter is published twelve times per year. The submission deadline is the 1st of each month for the following issue. Please email your articles or community event listings as an attachment, in an MS Word file, to the DRCA Communications Director at commdirector@deerruncalgary.com. Community-related digital photos and art are welcome. Ensure recognizable people in images have given their permission. Send a caption and/or the names of people.

Photos

Our goal is to publish high quality photos of Deer Run and adjacent Fish Creek park to highlight our community’s beauty, character and culture. Photos (and art) may be published in the Deer Run Villager community newsletter, Deer Run Community Website and/ or the Deer Run Community Association Facebook page.

The requirements are 250 KB for a smaller picture and 1-3 MB for a cover picture. JPEG format is preferred. HEIC is accepted. If sending a photo from your phone, choose the original (full) size.

Provide your full name so we can give you photo credit!

You may also want to visit our publisher Great News Media’s website for general submissions guidelines.

Past Issues

For past issues and news visit mycalgary.com/magazines/deer_run/

Thank you for your interest in our community newsletter.

Ann-Cay Zurbriggen

Communications Director,
Deer Run Community Association