I am not sure if this pertains to you or not but what about using someone’s social media presence as a tool to promote the articles. For instance lets say Mike posts some content on your site and Mike has an okay Facebook following of about 800 friends and about 200 followers on twitter. Then lets say Sam does the same thing but he has 4000 friends on Facebook with a few hundred subscribers and 3,000 followers on Twitter. I am not sure if this would work with your business model but if Sam gets picked for his submission I think the publishers would like to not only know his social media presence but also see him send a tweet saying “I just wrote and article for XYZ Mag check it out here somedomain.com ” and then doing the same on Facebook. I also think that makes him far more valuable as a content creator. This is just a random thought do what you will with it.

As far as actually answering your question… I agree with everyone below me. It was hard to understand what I was looking at immediately which means I would probably not stick around to find out.