Monday Writing Markets

Thanks to a couple of hectic Mondays, Monday Markets disappeared for a while. I’m happy to bring you some more writing markets today. Good luck – and if anyone has success with their queries, do drop us a comment to let us know and maybe even tell us what worked for you.

Please click the links to online guidelines for more information:

My Business

From the Online Guidelines:

What we want

Cover stories are usually staff-written, but the following sections are open to freelance pitches:

Upfront is a section of short (200-600 words) stories offering insight into and ideas of the new small-business economy. Each issue, we will include some of the following departments: Idea network, management, human resources, legal, financial, lifestyle, travel, auto, technology.

MyBusiness Manual is an in-depth exploration of key issues affecting small business. See the editorial calendar for the topic for each issue. This section is made up of 6-12 stories, varying from 300-800 words.

MyAdvice is a first-person column written by a small-business owner on the topic of their choice. We are looking for writers with personality, who can inject some voice (possibly humor) into a 500-word column. We do not pay for these submissions, but feature a credit line with the author’s business name and Web site.

Uncommon Enterprise celebrates businesses you never knew existed. We’re looking for very unusual concepts. After hearing about an Uncommon Enterprise, our editors want to say, “Wow, I had no idea you could start a business doing that.”

Grit Magazine – Pays $50 – $75 per article

From the online guidelines

Grit is a nationally distributed bi-monthly magazine with a circulation of approximately 150,000 through subscriptions and newsstand distribution. Grit celebrates the intergenerational bonds among those who live on the land with spirit and style – a legacy of self-sufficiency, audacious ingenuity and pragmatic problem solving that gave this country its backbone and continues to shape its unique character.

Grit purchases shared rights, which grants the publisher the right to publish or republish the work in any form in any country, at any time. The author agrees not to publish the work in any other media for a period ending one year after the date of the issue in which the work initially appears. After this period, the author retains the right to republish the work in any form in any country at any time, as well.

NO unsolicited manuscripts will be accepted; authors must query first. We prefer e-mail queries, which must include “Query” in subject line. Include full name, address and phone number. If a query is accepted, the author will be contacted regarding the article assignment.

DO NOT try to write for Grit if you know nothing about rural life. We intend to be an authoritative and sometimes playful voice for rural lifestyle farmers and country or small-town dwellers, and we require our writers to be informed about that way of life.

Yoga Journal - Payment varies.

From the online guidelines:

We encourage you to read an issue of Yoga Journal carefully before submitting a query. Please keep in mind our editorial department’s three E’s: Articles should be enlightening, educational, and entertaining. Please avoid New Age jargon and in-house buzz words as much as possible. Features run approximately 2,000 to 3,500 words. Departments run 1,000 to 2,500 words. Yoga Diary is 250 words (for more on Yoga Diary, see below). We do not print unsolicited poetry. We consider everything except a direct assignment to be submitted on a speculative basis. When an article has been assigned, we will contact you and then send a contract specifying terms and deadline.

Mad Magazine – Pays $500 per page

From the online guidelines:

IMPORTANT NOTES
1. Our preference is for you to submit via email. Send your material to submissions@madmagazine.com. Please note: We will respond only if we’re interested. Fax submissions are not accepted.
2. If your material contains significant sketches or is otherwise art-intensive, you may submit via snail mail. Be sure to include a self-addressed stamped envelope with sufficient postage to send your submission back, or we will not be able to return your artwork.
3. Before submitting become familiar with today’s MAD, not the MAD you grew up with (although that helps). Don’t be discouraged if the rejection slips pile up. Writing for MAD isn’t a piece of cake. That’s why we pay top rates — $500 per MAD page (for new contributors) — on acceptance (pieces that are less than a page — e.g. comic strips, Fundalini bits, etc. — are pro-rated accordingly).
Any other questions? See your spiritual advisor or write your Congressman! We’ve told you everything we know. Now it’s time to sit down at your computer, word processor, typewriter, notebook, stone tablet (or whatever it is you use to record your idiotic brainstorms!) and exercise your funny bone. We’re waiting to hear from you! Lots of luck!

Reader’s Digests: Jokes – Pays $100 – $300

Original contributions, which should be no more than 100 words or 1000 characters, become our property upon submission. Your submission may be used in all print and electronic media. If it’s used on the RD.com website only, you will not get paid for it. If selected, it may be edited. Previously published material must have source’s name, date and page.

Contributions cannot be acknowledged or returned. Please do not forward attachments with your e-mail. Due to various considerations, even usable items may not be published for six months or more. The competition for publication is intense; last year, editors selected only a few hundred stories from over a quarter-million submissions. It may also take some time for your submission to be considered; please don’t inquire about the status of your submission — we’ll be in touch if we use your material.

We may run your item in any section of our magazine, or elsewhere. If we receive more than one copy of the same or a similar item, we pay only for the one we select.