18 Pitch Calls from Paying Publications
Editor requests from the BBC, Huffington Post, Essence, Conde Nast Traveler, and a chance to write about your favorite romance novel.
Hello and happy Friday!
If you’re in Florida, I hope you’re safe, healthy, and have all the hot showers you want. I wish everyone an abundance of hot showers and I super wish we have no more massive hurricanes this year.
What Editors Are Looking For
Make It Timely
Editors are looking for the usual Christmas, New Year’s, and winter-related pitches. But with the wide variety of huge news stories that are going on right now, it’s a time for timeliness.
If you have pitches about climate change, stories from Florida, North Carolina, or other hurricane-related ideas, send those in now.
For the rest of the month, the U.S. election is going to take up a bunch of space.
What does that mean for you? It might mean that evergreen pitches (stories that could be run any time of year and aren’t tied to a news story, season, or event) get put on the back burner for the month. With so many unexpected news stories and tensions high, editors will likely respond to timely stories more than year-round pieces.
That doesn’t mean everything you pitch needs to be tied to today’s news. But be sure to follow up on your evergreen pitches, give editors a little extra time to respond, and see if you can put in a news peg (meaning, tie your story to something going on right now) to increase your chances of a yes.
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Where to Pitch this Week: 18 New Paid Writing Opportunities
Below, we’ve got editor requests from the BBC, Huffington Post, Essence, Condé Nast Traveler, and a chance to write about your favorite romance novel. Plus, paid opportunities in culture, video games, business, music, internet history, British & Irish hotels, hooking up, Tesla chargers, and more.