General questions aboutBates Magazine
Contact the editor with any correspondence, story ideas, gripes, class notes, birth and wedding announcements, letters to the editor, and/or wedding photographs.

H. Jay Burns, editor
Bates Magazine
Office of Communications and Media Relations
141 Nichols St., Lewiston ME 04240
207-786-6331

Letters
Bates Magazine welcomes letters of 300 words or fewer. Letters will be edited and published based on for style, grammar, length, clarity, and relevance to College issues and issues discussed in Bates Magazine.

"Your Page" essay submissions
The magazine's personal-essay column, featured on the last page of each issues, provides a space for alumni, students, faculty, staff and others who have a Bates College connection.

We welcome your idea, by means of a one-paragraph synopsis. E-mail proposals to Bates Magazine,.

Personal essays are short pieces that take a fresh, different, poignant or humorous look at a traditional experience. Here are two: one by author Nick Basbanes '65, the other by educator Todd Nelson '78.

They are not opinion pieces but instead offer specific insights, a detailed sense of discovery from experience. They will tend to focus closely on a few details, rather than painting an entire picture. Humor, wit, and whimsy work well. Topics do not need to be directly Bates-related. Length, at maximum, is 750 words.

Wedding photographs
If you would like your Bates group wedding photo published in Bates Magazine, please e-mail high-resolution JPEG images Bates Magazine or postal mail a print to 141 Nichols St., Lewiston ME 04240. Please identify all people and their classes, and include the wedding date, location and any other news.

Wedding and birth/adoption announcements
Send an e-mail to Bates Magazine or to the Office of Alumni and Parent Programs with all the details, including full names and dates.