Submit a Letter to The Editor

Learn how to submit a letter to the editor of The New York Times and about our selection process.

The New York Times encourages a diversity of voices and views in our letters.

Thomas Feyer, the New York Times letters editor, provides tips for getting your letter published in his article Editors’ Note; The Letters Editor and the Reader: Our Compact, Updated.

Readers of The New York Times can submit letters to letters@nytimes.com.

To be considered for publication, letters should:

Preferably be 150 to 200 words.
Generally refer to an article that has appeared within the past seven days.
Include the writer’s city or town and phone number.
Not contain attachments.
Be exclusive to The New York Times. We do not publish open letters or third-party letters.

Because of the large volume of submissions we receive, we cannot personally acknowledge each submission.

Writers of letters selected for publication will generally be notified within a week.
Letters may be edited and shortened for space.

To contact the Editorial Page editor, email editorial@nytimes.com.
To submit a guest essay, complete this form.
To report a factual error in a news article, email corrections@nytimes.com. All letters asserting factual errors will be forwarded to the appropriate editors.
To contact Op-Docs, email opinion.video@nytimes.com.

To send a letter to a specific Sunday section: