{"id":6601,"date":"2019-04-23T03:10:44","date_gmt":"2019-04-23T10:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/?p=6601"},"modified":"2019-04-23T05:43:46","modified_gmt":"2019-04-23T12:43:46","slug":"the-smart-set-200-for-personal-essays-travel-writing-memoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/uncategorized\/the-smart-set-200-for-personal-essays-travel-writing-memoir\/","title":{"rendered":"The Smart Set: $200 for Personal Essays, Travel Writing, &#038; Memoir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Smart Set is a wonderful publication that features intelligent writing about contemporary culture, often written in the form of a personal essay.<\/p>\n<p>Even better: They accept pitches directly from freelance writers. According to payment reports, they pay $200 per essay, though they they state the rate is negotiated.<\/p>\n<p>Recent essays they&#8217;ve published include topics such as Bruce Springsteen, ballet &amp; #metoo, travel in Istanbul, and an essay on simile vs. metaphor.<\/p>\n<p>According to their website:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Smart Set is an online magazine covering culture and ideas, arts and science, global and national affairs \u2014 everything from literature to shopping, medicine to sports, philosophy to food. Named for the turn-of-the-century literary magazine edited by H.L. Mencken and George Nathan, the Smart Set strives to present big ideas on the small, the not-so-small, and the everyday.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>To learn more, read their <a href=\"https:\/\/thesmartset.com\/about-us\/#submissions\">submission guidelines.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Smart Set is a wonderful publication that features intelligent writing about contemporary culture, often written in the form of a personal essay. Even better: They accept pitches directly from freelance writers. According to payment reports, they pay $200 per essay, though they they state the rate is negotiated. Recent essays they&#8217;ve published include topics&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":6602,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6601","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\/6601","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=6601"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6601\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6611,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6601\/revisions\/6611"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6602"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6601"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6601"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6601"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}