{"id":4199,"date":"2017-05-23T06:35:08","date_gmt":"2017-05-23T13:35:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/?p=4199"},"modified":"2017-08-22T13:43:41","modified_gmt":"2017-08-22T20:43:41","slug":"longreads-500-for-personal-essays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/uncategorized\/longreads-500-for-personal-essays\/","title":{"rendered":"Longreads: $500+ for Personal Essays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Longreads is a blog from the company behind WordPress, the software which powers over 25% of the internet.<\/p>\n<p>They publish personal essays on a variety of topics, in the vein of <em>Harper&#8217;s <\/em>or <em>The Believer.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Base pay is $500 per essay. Payment is determined by the amount of work. They also pay for features, at a higher rate, competitive with large publications.<\/p>\n<p>They also pay $250 for short blog posts, reading lists, and short interviews.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, they seem like a very good publication, with high standards, and a focus on quality.<\/p>\n<p>To learn more, visit their submission <a href=\"https:\/\/longreads.com\/submissions\/\">guidelines page.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Longreads is a blog from the company behind WordPress, the software which powers over 25% of the internet. They publish personal essays on a variety of topics, in the vein of Harper&#8217;s or The Believer. Base pay is $500 per essay. Payment is determined by the amount of work. They also pay for features, at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4207,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4199","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4199","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4200,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4199\/revisions\/4200"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}