{"id":11296,"date":"2023-09-15T07:22:04","date_gmt":"2023-09-15T14:22:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/?p=11296"},"modified":"2023-09-15T07:22:07","modified_gmt":"2023-09-15T14:22:07","slug":"25-themed-nonfiction-calls-for-september-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/uncategorized\/25-themed-nonfiction-calls-for-september-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"25 Themed Nonfiction Calls for September, 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong><br><br><\/strong>These are themed calls for nonfiction pitches\/submissions in the 25 magazines\/outlets here; a few want works on more than one theme. A few also accept other genres, like fiction and poetry. Some of the themes are: voices of disability economic justice; how music charts; past perfect; exploration &amp; hidden worlds; jingle &amp; joy; literary curiosities; personal money stories; inspiration; modern love; weird essays on video games and philosophy; and essays on overlooked writers.  <strong>&#8212; S. Kalekar<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The Century Foundation: Voices Of Disability Economic Justice<\/strong><br>They want op-ed style pieces and personal narratives of approximately 750 words written by people who identify as disabled \u2013 they accept both pitches and full drafts. Pieces must be focused on economic disparities or injustices that disabled people experience in the US or connected with economic issues in the US. \u201cVoices of Disability Economic Justice, a project of the The Century Foundation\u2019s Disability Economic Justice Team, is a commentary series that shines a light on the economic disparities that disabled people experience. Central to this series is a focus on amplifying the perspectives of disabled people with multiple overlapping marginalized identities\u2014particularly disabled people of color and LGBTQIA+ disabled people. If you have a story to share or a viewpoint to express that addresses economic justice issues through a disability lens, send us a pitch! Payment for published pieces is $500.\u201d Details <a href=\"https:\/\/tcf.org\/disability-economic-justice-collaborative\/voices-of-disability-economic-justice\/#:~:text=Voices%20of%20Disability%20Economic%20Justice%2C%20a%20project%20of%20the%20The,disparities%20that%20disabled%20people%20experience.\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>Climate Home News: Renewable Energy Supply Chain<\/strong><br>Climate Home News has detailed pitch guidelines for their renewable energy supply chain call, including, \u201cOur \u2018Clean Energy Frontiers\u2019 series aims to produce hard-hitting accountability journalism on the changing-landscape of the renewable energy supply chain.<br>Stories should spotlight bottlenecks, scrutinise key actors, and expose environmental impacts, and human and labour rights violations. We are also looking for stories robustly examining solutions to these challenges, including through innovation.\u201d Also, \u201cStories should include visual elements (such as satellite images, high-quality photos and videos) and we encourage partnerships between journalists and photographers.\u201d They are looking to commission 6 stories overall from journalists in all countries, who have at least 3 years of experience. They offer a reporting fee of around $1,600 per story, including photos and videos, in addition to covering travel and accommodation expenses. They will commission the first 3 stories by late October, and continue to review pitches until February 2024 for publication by June next year. Details <a href=\"https:\/\/climatechangenews.com\/2023\/08\/18\/climate-home-news-seeks-call-for-pitches-on-renewable-energy-supply-chain\/\">here<\/a>.<br><br><strong>Chartmetric: How Music Charts<\/strong><br>Their website says, \u201cHow Music Charts by\u00a0Chartmetric\u00a0is a publication that aims to explain, explore, and\/or uncover insights into the music industry using the power of data. \u2026 Blog post pitches should demonstrate the writer\u2019s familiarity with Chartmetric and our data-driven approach to storytelling. Topics should be specific and focused, as posts should be around 1000-1500 words. \u2026 We are looking for articles that fit in one or multiple of our general topic umbrellas: market-specific trends, tech trends, TikTok trends, artist case studies, and Chartmetric feature-driven pieces. That said, we are open to any type of article, provided it&#8217;s interesting and fits within the scope of our site. Note that due to the nature of our in-depth data work, we don\u2019t publish breaking news stories, but we do like to cover timely trends and events. We also encourage pieces about international artists and\/or trends!\u201d Rates start at $0.50\/word. Details <a href=\"https:\/\/chartmetric.notion.site\/chartmetric\/Chartmetric-Freelancer-Pitch-Process-59dd7bb26b3a4d8ebef45f1b3be689b8\">here<\/a>.<br><br><strong>Food for the Worm: U.S. horror films that come from books<br><\/strong>This is a Substack-based newsletter. Their latest call for pitches says, \u201cLooking for interesting essay ideas regarding U.S. horror films that come from books.\u201d They have a detailed pitch guide, including, \u201cFood for the Worm is an irregular essay series about U.S. horror films and what they have to teach us about ourselves. It is distributed through Substack as a newsletter. The essays are not movie reviews \u2014 I\u2019m not interested in whether a film is good or bad, rather, why it was made, why it resonated, and what it says about human behavior, our fears, our anxieties, and our desires.\u201d Pay is $250. The pitch deadline is 27 September 2023. See the pitch call <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FoodfortheWorm\/status\/1701984601281900834\">here<\/a>, and general guidelines <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/document\/d\/19ofQHmXYskkdXthvOViXiPbTc773zaVzst3Fr6UhwiE\/edit\">here<\/a>.\u00a0<br><br><strong>Griffith Review: Past Perfect<br><\/strong>Griffith Review is an Australian literary and current affairs journal; they mostly publish work of Australian writers, and some work by international writers. They\u2019re currently accepting nonfiction and fiction submissions only, on the \u2018Past Perfect\u2019 theme. They have detailed guidelines, including, \u201cThe past, famously, is a foreign country \u2013 but in the twenty-first century, it\u2019s one in which we increasingly seek solace.<br>No matter the relentless pace of technological innovation and the digitisation of everything from money to media \u2013 our appetites for retro design and aesthetics, for cultural products that reimagine technicolour-dream versions of decades gone by, or for fantasies of a past golden political age are ever on the rise.<br>But what fuels this love affair with recycling our history? What periods do we choose to romanticise, and how do our rose-tinted glasses occlude reality? Is all this nostalgia signifying \u2013 as the late Mark Fisher opined \u2013 the disappearance of the future?<br>This edition of Griffith Review surveys our need to idealise, sensationalise and glamorise \u2013 and asks what the circular nature of our obsessions says about our present cultural moment.\u201d They want complete submissions only, no pitches, of up to 4,000 words. The deadline is 15 October 2023. Details <a href=\"https:\/\/www.griffithreview.com\/for-writers\/\">here<\/a>.<br>(Griffith Review will issue a separate call for <strong>poetry<\/strong> on this theme at a later date.)<br><br><strong>Consequence Magazine: War and geopolitical violence<\/strong><br>They publish work \u201cthat addresses the human experiences, realities, and consequences of war and geopolitical violence through literature and art.\u201d They accept nonfiction of up to 4,000 words (interviews, essays, and narrative non-fiction), fiction (including flash and excerpts), poetry, translations, and art. All works will be considered for online and print. Pay is $30-50 for print prose, $60 for online prose, and $20-40 for poetry. The deadline is 15 October 2023. Details <a href=\"https:\/\/www.consequenceforum.org\/submissions\">here<\/a>.<br><br><strong>MIT Technology Review: Exploration and hidden worlds<br><\/strong>The commissioning editor of MIT Technology Review wants pitches for their upcoming issue on exploration and hidden worlds. \u201cWe&#8217;re looking for big swings: narrative features, essential profiles, and sharp reported essays. Rates: $1-2\/word. Pitch deadline: Sept 18\u201d. According to their general pitch guide, for the print issues, they run \u201cshort news stories and profiles (500-800 words), op-eds, and data spreads in the front of the book and essays and book reviews in the back of the book (usually around 2000 words). The feature well of the magazine is devoted to narrative features, investigations, big profiles, and reported essays (generally between 2500-4000 words).\u201d They have detailed pitch guidelines for the print magazine, as well as the website. See the editor\u2019s pitch call <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/rcourt\/status\/1699116103014965342\">here<\/a>. They also list feature themes for future issues, with later deadlines, on their general guidelines page \u2013 scroll down <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/how-to-pitch-mit-technology-review\/\">here<\/a>. There is a separate pitching process for op-eds, see <a href=\"https:\/\/www.technologyreview.com\/2020\/10\/15\/1009481\/how-to-pitch-write-opinion-piece\/\">here<\/a>.<br><br><strong>Astrolabe<\/strong><br>They want \u201cwork about how we seek out, discover, and grasp onto connection. Into the woods. Across a line. Beneath the ocean. Along a seam. Into the branches of an alternate present or the crevasse of an alternate future. Across the rifts between one another. And then, once we find one other, the myths we make. We\u2019re excited to see as many interpretations of this broad theme as there are stars in the night sky. We\u2019re open to work of all genres, with a particular fondness for anything that moves beyond realism in form or content or spirit.\u201d And, \u201cWe\u2019ll happily consider fiction and CNF in all prose forms\u2014prose poetry, micro, flash, and beyond\u2014but we\u2019re not considering lineated poetry at the moment.\u201d Prose can be up to 3,000 words. Payment is $50. Their fee-free submission period is soon, 22 September to 22 October 2023 (all fee-free submission periods for 2023 are given on their website). Details <a href=\"https:\/\/www.astrolabe.ooo\/submissions\">here<\/a>.<br><br><strong>Sasee: Jingle &amp; Joy<\/strong><br>They want first-person, non-fiction material (500-1,000 words) that is for or about women. Essays, humor, satire, personal experience, and features on topics relating to women are their primary editorial focus. Their upcoming theme is Jingle &amp; Joy, and the deadline for that is 15 October 2023. Pay varies. Details <a href=\"https:\/\/sasee.com\/submissions\/\">here<\/a>.<br><br><strong>The Lead: Housing, Immigration, Education, and more<br><\/strong>They want to hear from UK-based writers \u2013 particularly Black and brown writers, and particularly writers outside of London, for this call. Their call for pitches says, \u201cWe&#8217;re looking for investigations and features on #housing, #immigration, #education, #inequality and the #environment from #writers with solid track records \/ expertise in their field.\u201d Their <a href=\"https:\/\/thelead.uk\/about-us\">website<\/a> says, \u201cThe Lead is a micro-mag: a lean, mean site on politics, culture, and everything in between. We cover the sharp angles that define our life in the UK today: poverty, racism, climate change, corporate and government malfeasance, the breakdown of our healthcare system and the fracturing of the state. \u2026 our aim is not just to inform: it\u2019s to restore agency.\u201d They pay \u00a3400 for 1,800 words. See the pitch call <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Nmozz\/status\/1701646649334874239\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/theleaduk\/status\/1701632224381038738\">here<\/a>.<br><br><br><strong>Channel<\/strong><br>They have detailed submission guidelines, including, \u201cAlthough we draw inspiration from local and international traditions of nature writing, as well as from the many dedicated platforms for writing on climate and ecology that exist today, much of what we publish falls outside common definitions of nature writing and eco-writing. We love work that speaks directly of a writer\u2019s bond with and fear for our planet, and work that takes a local landscape, or a local flower, as its subject; equally, though, we love work that draws on an aspect of nature as setting, image or metaphor.\u201d They have specific submission windows for fiction and poetry (closed now); nonfiction for the print\u00a0 (up to 6,000 words) and online magazine, as well as the blog, and art are accepted through the year. Pay is \u20ac50\/poem and \u20ac50\/page of prose, up to \u20ac150. Details <a href=\"https:\/\/channelmag.org\/submissions\/\">here<\/a>.<br><br><strong>Long Now: Ideas<\/strong> <strong>section<\/strong><br>A post from Long Now Foundation says, \u201cLong Now is accepting pitches of essays, reported features, interviews, book reviews, fiction &amp; poetry for \ud835\ude10\ud835\ude25\ud835\ude26\ud835\ude22\ud835\ude34, our living archive of long-term thinking.\u201d Their website says, \u201cThe Long Now Foundation is a nonprofit established \u2026 to foster long-term thinking. Our work encourages imagination at the timescale of civilization \u2014 the next and last 10,000 years \u2014 a timespan we call the long now.\u201d They publish reported, argument-driven, or photo essays (1,200 &#8211; 3,000 words); long-form reported narrative features (1,200 &#8211; 3,000 words); interviews with the thinkers, artists, and makers whose projects and ideas foster long-term thinking and responsibility (2,000 &#8211; 3,000 words); short-form science journalism, news, and history (500-1,200 words), science fiction stories, and poetry. Payment starts at $600 for features and essays; is $300-600 for interviews, book reviews, and short-form science journalism and news articles; is $100 for science fiction stories; and $25\/poem. See the post <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/longnow\/status\/1699494144547381689\">here<\/a> and their general pitch guide <a href=\"https:\/\/longnow.org\/ideas\/pitch-guide\/\">here<\/a>.<br><br><strong>Shooter Literary Magazine: The Unknown<\/strong><br>They want work on \u2018The Unknown\u2019 theme. Their website says, \u201cWe\u2019re looking for stories, essays, memoir and poetry on anything to do with unfamiliar people, new places, strange experiences or foreign exploration. Work might revolve around culture clashes, romantic encounters, fears about the future, immigration, travel, or otherworldly realms altogether. The theme is open to wide interpretation, but please adhere to the submission guidelines. In addition to thematic relevance, we seek engaging, elegant writing that maintains a high literary standard.\u201d Also, \u201cAny non-fiction or journalistic work selected for publication will be fact-checked.\u201d Pay is \u00a325 for prose of 2,000-6,000 words, and \u00a35 for poetry and short prose. Please note, non-UK writers can opt for a contributor copy or cash payment. The deadline is 24 September 2023. Details <a href=\"https:\/\/shooterlitmag.com\/submissions\/\">here<\/a>.<br><br><strong>The Kenyon Review: Three themes<\/strong><br>This respected literary journal is open for submissions through September 2023. They publish nonfiction, fiction (including flash and excerpts from longer works), poetry, and drama, as well as translations; the themes are: <strong>Extinction<\/strong>,\u00a0<strong>Writing from Rural Spaces<\/strong>, and\u00a0<strong>Literary Curiosities. Writers can also send unthemed submissions.<\/strong> They do not accept paper submissions, except from writers (such as those who are incarcerated) who do not have ready access to the internet (see guidelines). Length guidelines are: up to 7,500 words for prose, up to 6 poems, up to 30 pages for plays. Pay is $0.08\/word for prose, up to $450; $0.15\/word for poetry, up to $200. The submission deadline is 30 September 2023. Details <a href=\"https:\/\/kenyonreview.org\/submission\/submission-guidelines\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/thekenyonreview.submittable.com\/submit\">here<\/a>.<br><br><strong>New York Times: Modern Love<\/strong><br>Modern Love is a non-fiction column. They want \u201chonest personal essays about contemporary relationships. We seek true stories on finding love, losing love and trying to keep love alive. We welcome essays that explore subjects such as adoption, polyamory, technology, race and friendship \u2014 anything that could reasonably fit under the heading \u201cModern Love.\u201d Ideally, essays should spring from some central dilemma you have faced. It is helpful, but not essential, for the situation to reflect what is happening in the world now.\u201d Also, \u201cLove may be universal, but individual experiences can differ immensely and be informed by factors including race, socio-economic status, gender, disability status, nationality, sexuality, age, religion and culture.\u201d Send essays of 1,500-1,700 words. Modern Love has two submission periods, September through December, and March through June. Writers are paid. Send submissions to modernlove (at) nytimes.com. They especially welcome work from historically underrepresented writers, and from those outside the US. Details <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/article\/how-to-submit-a-modern-love-essay.html\">here<\/a>.<br>(Also see their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/09\/19\/style\/modern-love-tiny-love-stories.html\">Tiny Love Stories<\/a> column; these are also personal essays similar in theme to Modern Love, but a much shorter 100 words.) \u00a0<br><br><strong>Scalawag: Haints of the Black South<\/strong><br>Scalawag publishes work on the life, politics, and culture of the American South. It is \u201cBlack-led, Southern abolitionist media. We disrupt narratives that keep power in the hands of the few &amp; amplify grassroots, liberation movements.\u201d Their pitch call says, \u201cwe are now accepting pitches for our October series, Haints of the Black South. Personal, historical, and spatial hauntings connected to and within the Black South.\u201d They want to \u201cexplore the things that still haunt the South, both in a literal and figurative sense.\u201d They want regional stories of haints and hauntings, critical and personal essays, poetry, short fiction, photography, video, and other multimedia projects. They prioritize pitches from BIPOC and queer Southerners. The pitch deadline is 28 September 2023. The pitch call thread is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SherrondaJBrown\/status\/1699548002568823195\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/scalawagmag\/status\/1699535862348804112\">here<\/a>, the pitch form is <a href=\"https:\/\/airtable.com\/appLPmSjx6ihuB0bM\/shrne2dkPJWMtF8LY\">here<\/a>, and the general pitch guide is <a href=\"https:\/\/scalawagmagazine.org\/submissions\/\">here<\/a>.\u00a0\u00a0<br><br><strong>Woods Reader<\/strong><br>They only accept submissions from writers in the US and Canada. \u201cWoods Reader is a publication for those who love woodland areas: whether a public preserve, forest, tree farm, backyard woodlot or other patch of trees and wildlife. Our readers like to hear about others\u2019 experiences and insights, especially those that make an impression that they think about long after they have finished the article. Submitted content should center around trees and woodlands.\u201d And, \u201cWe buy articles in the following categories with woodland themes: Personal experience; Educational or nonfiction; The Woodland Philosopher; Fiction\/fantasy; DIY article using woodland materials (accompanying photographs requested); Humor blog or cartoon; Short poetry; Destinations\u201d. Please contact them prior to submitting book reviews. They publish works of 500-1,000 words. \u201cWe also buy the occasional longer fiction or true adventure story which may be serialized over up to four issues (2000-5000 words).\u201d They do not want hunting stories. Payment ranges from $25 to over $100. Details <a href=\"https:\/\/woodsreader.com\/submissions\">here<\/a>.<br><br><strong>Tribal College Journal: Resilience<br><\/strong>They want themed feature articles and shorter pieces. All articles must engage tribal colleges and universities in some way. Possible feature article topics are specified on the website, but alternative topics on each theme are welcome. They want both long features (2500-3000 words) and shorter features (1500-2000 words), and various department pieces (some of which are unpaid \u2013 read guidelines). For Summer 2024, the theme is Resilience. \u201cThe recent pandemic took more than one million lives in the U.S. alone, making it one of the greatest public health crises impacting Indian Country since the Columbian exchange. It also had a devastating effect on mental health and the social and economic fabric of our communities. At the same time, it underscored yet again the incredible resilience of tribal communities. How does resilience manifest itself in Indian Country? How is resilience historically rooted in Native communities? What new lessons of resilience have tribal colleges drawn from the pandemic to carry us through the present and into the future? How have TCUs emerged even stronger in the aftermath of COVID-19?\u201d Deadline for feature story suggestions is 3 November 2023; the features deadline is 5 January 2024; the On Campus news shorts deadline is 12 January 2024. There is no payment for Voices or Research articles. Details <a href=\"https:\/\/tribalcollegejournal.org\/upcoming-issues\/\">here<\/a> (theme details) and <a href=\"https:\/\/tribalcollegejournal.org\/writers-guidelines\/\">here<\/a> (guidelines).<br>(The deadline for feature story suggestions for Spring 2024, <strong>Sustaining Our Native Languages, has passed, but the submission deadline for shorts is in October.)<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><br>Afar: Indigenous Travel<br><\/strong>The Arts &amp; Culture Associate Editor for Afar has issued a pitch call: \u201cAFAR is seeking pitches from Indigenous and Native writers for an online package about Indigenous travel. Feel free to pitch me \u2026 feature-style stories, round ups, and\/or service pieces. Our digital rate is fifty cents a word!\u201d The pitch call is <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bymaeham\/status\/1702441633814327299\">here<\/a> and their general pitch guide is <a href=\"https:\/\/www.afar.com\/about\/pitch-guidelines\">here<\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>Ninth Letter: Praise<\/strong><br>This literary magazine wants nonfiction (up to 3,500 words), fiction, and poetry on the Praise theme for its web edition \u2013 there is no submission fee for this section. \u201cRobert Hass begins his 1979 book of poetry,&nbsp;<em>Praise<\/em>, with an epigraph:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;We asked the captain what course<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;of action he proposed to take toward<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;a beast so large, terrifying, and<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;unpredictable. He hesitated to<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;answer, and then said judiciously:<br>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &#8220;I think I shall praise it.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>What beasts do you praise? What monsters do you pay tribute to? How sharp are the objects of your veneration? We seek the flashlight pushing its beam through darkness; we seek the grin that bears the weight. Show us the reverence that glows like an ember in the ash. Show us your demons, and share with us the odes and hymns, the lullabies and incantations you sing to earn their peace. Show us your beasts, and give your beasts praise.\u201d Pay is $75 for prose, and $25 per poem. The deadline is 1 November 2023. Details <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ninthletter.com\/web-edition\/submit\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/ninthletteronline.submittable.com\/submit\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><strong>Book XI: A Journal of Literary Philosophy \u2013 Books, reading, and being read<\/strong><br>Book XI publishes personal essays, memoir, fiction, science fiction, humor, and poetry with philosophical themes. They want submissions on the \u2018Books, reading, and being read\u2019 theme. They want prose of 2,000 and 7,000 words, but will also consider shorter and longer works (see guidelines). They are affiliated with Hamilton College\u2019s Arthur Levitt Center for Public Affairs. Pay is $200 for prose and $50 for poems. The deadline is 10<sup>th<\/sup> November 2023; they will close earlier if they hit their Submittable cap. Details <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bookxi.org\/submit\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/bookxiajournalofliteraryphilosophy.submittable.com\/submit\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Junei: Personal money stories<\/strong><br>This is a pitch call for UK-based journalists: \u201cCalling all UK Journalists! Share your personal money stories with Junei. We&#8217;re seeking 800-1000 word first-person narratives. \u00a3120 per article! Multiple pitches welcome.\u201d They have a detailed general guidelines page, which includes, \u201cJunei makes money transparency happen through first-person stories. Our readers are millennials and gen Z citizens &#8211; inheritors of a world in which forever-renting and hustling are the norm.<br>We want to make this reality less of an ordeal (and less lonely) by sharing stories about how we spend, save, earn, and live.\u201d See the pitch call <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wearejunei\/status\/1700148244154630199\">here<\/a> and their guidelines page <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wearejunei.com\/share-story\">here<\/a>.<br><br><strong>Overland: Economic inequality; politics of food; weird essays on video games and philosophy; and more<\/strong><br>This Australian magazine is looking for pitches as well as submissions (800-1,200 words) for online features, on the themes below. They do not want personal essays or creative nonfiction for the online magazine, unless they are very consistently linked to political concerns. \u201cRight now we\u2019re looking for smart, researched and insightful essays on topics such as <strong>economic inequality<\/strong>, <strong>housing<\/strong>, <strong>arts policy and governance<\/strong>, and <strong>environmental justice<\/strong>. We take pitches for both print and online, but we\u2019re always looking for more content for the website. Our editors work both individually and collaboratively, and each of our editors has something they\u2019re always on the look out for. Giovanni wants great pieces about the <strong>politics of food<\/strong>, Jonathan wants <strong>weird essays on video games and philosophy<\/strong>, and Evelyn is after <strong>commentary on pop culture, Aboriginal self-determination, and ecological justice<\/strong>.We\u2019re also interested in hearing from First Nations writers about <strong>Treaty, truthtelling, and the Voice campaign<\/strong>.\u201d They\u2019re also always looking for submissions on these broad topics:<br><strong>\u201c&#8211; Essays on climate politics, grassroots organising and social justice campaigns: <\/strong>We\u2019d love to hear about long-term organising projects and issues the community needs to know about that might not have had a recent spotlight. From small-scale local projects to global campaigns, we want to know what\u2019s happening and why it matters.<br><strong>&#8212; Smart essays on TV shows, films, videogames or popular culture:<\/strong> As with books, what we look for is seldom a review that focuses on the merits or demerits of a single text, unless it is uniquely topical or culturally significant. Rather, we favour expansive review essays that make connections between different texts, in and out of their specific, individual art form. We\u2019re not elitists here \u2013 a text doesn\u2019t need to be academic or niche for us to be interested in what you have to say.<br><strong>&#8212; Literature, publishing and the arts:<\/strong> We\u2019re always interested in essays on the politics and craft of writing and the broader arts industry. We\u2019re especially interested in hidden literary, artistic and activist histories about individuals, texts and events that could still teach us something today.\u201d They pay AUD150 for work published in their online magazine. Details <a href=\"https:\/\/overland.org.au\/submit\/nonfiction-submissions\/\">here<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/overland.org.au\/submit\/pitch-to-overland\/\">here<\/a>.<br><br><strong>Poets &amp; Writers: Inspiration<br><\/strong>They publish articles of interest to emerging and established literary writers. They publish News &amp; Trends, The Literary Life Essays (on the more contemplative aspects of writing, ranging from creative process to the art of reading), The Practical Writer (advice and how-to articles that offer nuts and bolts information about the business of creative writing), and features \u2013 articles, essays, profiles, and interviews regarding American literature. According to their Media Kit for advertisers, for January\/February 2024, the issue theme is Inspiration. They do not publish fiction or poetry, or reviews. They take both, story proposals, and articles on spec, and take 4-6 weeks to respond to queries or manuscripts. Details <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pw.org\/about-us\/advertise\">here<\/a> (Media Kit\/themes) and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pw.org\/about-us\/about_poets_%26amp%3B_writers_magazine\">here<\/a> (writers\u2019 guidelines).<br><br><strong>Ploughshares: Look2 essays<br><\/strong>Apart from work for the literary magazine, Ploughshares is also accepting submissions for the Look2 essay series. \u201cThis series seeks to publish essays about underappreciated or overlooked writers. 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