Monday Markets for June 23, 2008
June 23, 2008 by Jodee
Filed under Freelance Writing
It’s time for Monday Markets again. I’ve included links to all of today’s mags; please read through the submission guidelines carefully before you make your pitch. We’re always interested in hearing about your success stories; if you have successfully pitched a magazine, please feel free to share your experience and what worked for you.
5280 Magazine
From the Online Guidelines:
5280 is Denver’s premier guide to the arts, entertainment, dining, and lifestyle issues in the Mile-High City.
We’re looking for writers who understand the difference between newspaper and magazine writing. This is a subjective matter, of course, but it boils down to a difference both in how we approach a story and how we tell it.
Once assigned a story, you will be required to sign a contract which grants 5280 Publishing, Inc. first-time North American rights to publish the article in both print and electronic formats. Fees for articles vary, depending on writer and piece.
From the Online Guidelines:
Please send us a brief written query before you write an article. We purchase little unsolicited material, and a query lessens the chance that a similar article may already be planned or recently published. A good query provides a headline that suggests the story content, a strong lead, and a summary of 300-400 words that clearly describes the premise and approach of the piece. We look for a new or seldom-done wildlife angle that matches interesting details with broad appeal. If possible, queries should be accompanied by at least two published clips related to the fields of wildlife management, natural history or outdoor recreation.
We pay on acceptance for articles and article/photo packages. Articles are $400 and up for a full-length feature, and $500 and up for an article and photographs purchased as a package.
From the Online Guidelines:
The editors of West Branch welcome submissions of poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. We read unsolicited manuscripts between August 15 and April 15; manuscripts received during the summer will be returned unread. We print only original, unpublished work.
Presently, we pay contributors $10 per printed page ($20 minimum / $100 maximum). Additionally, we provide each contributor with two copies of the issue in which his/her work appears and a one-year subscription to West Branch.
Book reviews are typically arranged by assignment. If you are interested in writing reviews, please query with a sample. We currently pay $200 per assigned review.
From the Online Guidelines:
Skydiving is a newsmagazine. Its purpose is to deliver timely, useful and interesting information about the equipment, techniques, events, people and places of parachuting. We want the magazine to inform and entertain its thousands of subscribers around the world.
Skydiving’s average reader is a 31-year-old skydiver with 300 jumps from small airplanes. But the actual audience spans the entire spectrum of jumpers, from first-jump students to veterans with thousands of skydives.
Just as a Ford part won’t fit into a Chevy, some good pieces won’t fit Skydiving’s format. If your first attempt gets turned down, we’ll tell you why and hope you’ll try again. Usually we’ll return an article with some suggestions and ask you to resubmit. It means you’re halfway to getting published in Skydiving. Sometimes we’ll condense an article and publish it that way. Parachuting changes constantly and quickly, so some pieces go out of date before they can be used. That’s why it’s important to keep timeliness in mind when you’re writing.
Skydiving pays after publication for articles it prints, and that payment is in exchange for all rights. Payment is typically based on the flat rate of $1 per column inch (including illustrations or photographs). We occasionally pay at higher–or lower–rates. Skydiving usually does not pay for commercial editorial contributions such as news releases or meet announcements…. Contributors are welcome to contact Skydiving about its payment policies before submitting an article.
From the Online Guidelines:
WoodenBoat publishes approximately 60 feature articles a year, from many parts of the world. Many are unsolicited, submitted by both amateur and professional writers. Our primary interest is to publish informative material, so writing style is secondary when we consider an article for publication. Obviously, our ideal manuscript is informative and smoothly written, but we’re willing to do some work to help make it so.
Most of our articles run from 1,000 to 4,000 words, and while we are not restricted by the same space requirements as most magazines, we do limit the size of certain types of articles. If in doubt, inquire. Typed, double-spaced manuscripts are nice, and, whenever possible, please send text on disk.
Payment for articles is made on publication. We will send you a check and a copy of the new issue as soon as it is available, and we will return all your material a couple of weeks later, when it comes back to us from the printer.
The usual rate of payment is $200-$250 for 1,000 words.
Hi,
I emailed a local dog magazine a couple months ago and never heard back from them so I assumed they weren’t interested and just forgot about it. Lo and behold he asked for a story idea, I sent it to him and eventually
he said yes but it took another email to get the rate and word count. I’m happy to say it pays quite well. He never asked for a clip or resume. A definite lesson in patience
and persistence.
I also wrote for a local food coop/alternative health magazine off and on for over 5 years and never thought it would get me anywhere but the clips paid off as did developing a style the mag liked.I got to pitch story ideas off and on but also had a choice of assignments.
Hope this helps.
I love these, thank you so much for doing them.
Thanks! West Branch sounds promising…