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Submit an Event
We want to hear about it. We are also going to check it before it appears anywhere on this site — so here is exactly what makes a submission usable.
The core rule
Nothing submitted here is published automatically. Every submission is read by a person and verified against a source we can point at. A submission is a tip, not an entry.
How to send it
Email the details below to Editorial inbox not yet live. SGF After Dark is in prelaunch review and does not yet have a public contact address for event submissions. One will be published here before the guide goes live. We would rather show nothing than an address that silently bounces.. Plain text is fine — there is no template to download and no account to create.
What we need
- Venue name and street address
- Must match a real, currently trading Springfield venue.
- Date and start time
- For a recurring night, say which days it runs and from when — 'every Friday from 9 p.m.' rather than 'weekly'.
- A link on a channel the venue or promoter controls
- The venue's own site, its own social account, or a ticketing page. This is the single most important field: it is what makes the claim checkable.
- Age policy
- 18+, 21+, or varies. If you do not know, say so rather than guessing.
- Cover charge or ticket price
- Including 'no cover', which is useful information.
- Who is submitting, and your relationship to the venue
- Owner, staff, promoter, performer, or member of the public.
Helpful, but not required
- Whether it is recurring or one-off
- We publish recurring programming; one-off events are handled differently.
- Performing artists or DJs
- Named acts help us verify and help readers decide.
- Closing time
- Not last call — the hour the doors close.
- Accessibility information
- Almost nothing in this market publishes it, and readers ask.
What happens next
- A person reads it. If the venue is not already in our dataset, we assess the venue first — an event at an unverified venue cannot be published before the venue is.
- We verify the claim against a channel the venue or promoter controls. If we cannot find one, we will ask you for it, and if there isn’t one we will not publish.
- If it is a recurring, named weekly programme, it may appear in the relevant night ranking as published programming — scored on the same rubric as every other venue.
- We may not reply. A small publication cannot promise a response to every submission, and we would rather say that than imply otherwise.
What we will not do
- Publish a one-off event as recurring programming. A single night is not a weekly.
- Take payment for coverage or placement. Submitting an event has no effect on any venue’s score, and never will. Our editorial policy sets out the separation.
- Publish attendance claims, crowd sizes or superlatives. “Springfield’s biggest party” is not a fact we can verify, so it does not run.
- Reproduce promotional copy. We will write it in our own words, from the verifiable facts.
If you are correcting something instead
Wrong hours, a closed venue, an out-of-date policy — that is a correction, and we treat it with more urgency than a submission. If you run a venue and want to update its listing, use the venue update route.