Reader field notes

Tell us what stayed with you.

A true moment from hunting, fishing, camp, water, or wild country. It does not need to be polished. It needs to mean something.

Start with what happened

01 The kind of story

Not a trophy wall.

We want the mistake, decision, surprise, doubt, tradition, or lesson that another person can carry into the field. The part that changed how you do something matters more than perfect prose.

You lived it. We can help shape it.

Before you begin

Send the honest version.

01
Start with the moment
What happened, what you expected, and what surprised you.
02
Leave in the uncomfortable part
A mistake or doubt usually teaches more than a clean victory.
03
Tell us what changed
The habit, belief, tool, or decision you carry differently now.

Private until reviewed

Your email and photographs are not published with the form. You choose how, or whether, your name appears.

01The experience

Write it rough. We care about what happened, not whether the sentences are polished.

Where does it belong?

A few words to identify the story

Tell us what happened A voice-note transcript, rough chronology, or plain account is completely fine.

What stayed with you?

Roughly where and when?

02Photographs

Optional. Send up to six photographs. They stay private during review, and embedded location metadata is removed.

Choose photographs JPG, PNG, or WebP · maximum 8 MB each

Photo notes

If I attach photographs, I confirm that I took them or have permission to provide them for publication and commercial use, and that I have any legally required permission from identifiable people or other rights holders.

03Credit and contact

How should we credit you?

Name or pen name

Private contact email Used only to discuss this submission. It will not appear with the story.

04Before you send it This is my experience, or I have permission to tell it, and it is substantially true to the best of my knowledge. I understand Field Honest may shorten, restructure, fact-check, and rewrite it in the publication’s style while aiming to preserve what happened and what it meant. I agree to the story submission guidelines and non-exclusive license, including commercial publication, narration, podcast/audio, video, promotion, and distribution in current or future Field Honest formats. I keep ownership of my material. I own this submission or have the rights and permissions needed to provide it, and it does not violate another person’s copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity, confidentiality, or other rights. I am 18 or older and Field Honest may contact me privately about this submission.

Not a trophy wall. Send the part that could help someone.

What happens next

A field desk, not a content chute.

We read it privately

Nothing is published automatically. We look for a real experience and a useful reason to tell it.

We ask, then shape

If the story fits, we may ask for details and build it into Field Honest style without inventing what happened.

You choose the credit

Use your name, first name, a pen name, or remain anonymous. We follow the choice made in the form.