This week’s Monday Markets are a mixed bag. Just about any niche market you can think of has at least one magazine that caters to it. Have you considered any of these themes when you are considering what markets to write for?
From the Web Site:
Family Tree Magazine is a special-interest consumer magazine that helps readers discover, preserve and celebrate their family’s history. We cover genealogy, ethnic heritage, personal history, genealogy Web sites and software, scrapbooking, photography and photo preservation, and other ways that families connect with their past.
Articles are beginner-friendly, but never talk down to the audience. Readers may be experts in one area of our coverage, yet novices in another. We emphasize sidebars, tips and other reader-friendly “packaging,” and each article aims to provide the resources necessary to take the next step in the quest for one’s personal past.
Pay varies according to level of difficulty of the assignment; 25% kill fee paid.
From the Web Site:
Portland Family Magazine is a regional family magazine of arts, lifestyle, politics, environmental issues, holistic health and culture published monthly. Portland Family is an outlet for reportage and point of view that are not often found in the mainstream media. Our writers write the critiques, praises and personal anecdotes that provide the detail to the larger picture, the colors to the outline (often coloring outside the lines). We believe that Portland area families want to read something meaningful, something that enhances their relationship with each other and with their community. While we do, of course, want to entertain and enlighten our readers, above all we strive to convey substance with style and to make an emotional connection with our readers. We have an impassioned involved readership, and we embrace the opportunity to meet their high expectations.
Rate of pay varies; 20% kill fee paid.
From the Web Site:
Hinduism Today’s Writer’s Guidelines
Hinduism Today
Kauai’s Hindu Monastery
Editorial Offices
107 Kaholalele Road
Kapaa, Hawaii 96746 USA
WWW: http://www.hinduismtoday.com/
Submit articles to the Managing EditorWriter’s Guidelines
We welcome anyone to contribute to Hinduism Today. Over the years, our contributors have ranged from professional reporters to great Hindu religious leaders to lay Hindus and children. Together they have allowed us to produce an educational and informative magazine issue after issue. If you’d like to join this band who make Hinduism Today possible, please let us know.Hinduism Today is a 86-page international quarterly magazine written for educated, English-speaking Hindus, the general public interested in Hinduism and to inform the scholastic community dedicated to Hindu-related studies. Now in its 29th year of publication, our magazine is considered “the voice of Hinduism” and — many tell us — is the best Hindu newsjournal in the world both in content and design. We are published in North America and distributed worldwide. The magazine is posted regularly on the Web, with archives back to 1979, and also distributed in a free, online digital form.
It is not necessary that contributing writers be Hindu, but that they empathize with Hindu thought, practices and culture.
Pays $0.08 per word on publication for short items (200-500 words) and features (1,000-4,000 words)
From the Web Site:
Moment is dedicated to publishing unpredictable stories that will interest members of all branches of the Jewish community including Jewish Renewal, Reform, Conservative, Modern Orthodox, Haredi, Hasidic, Secular Humanist and the unaffiliated. Our stories range in scope from global to local (with a global twist), right to left, the literary to the political. We are looking for in-depth, evocative and richly rendered compositions on all things relevant to Jewish life.
We’re interested in the stories that haven’t yet been told. However, we know that there are those topics that will forever bear interest to the Jewish community (the Holocaust, anti-Semitism, intermarriage and aliyah to Israel). If we choose to explore these topics we will always tell them from a new angle, inspired by fresh information and insight. As a bi-monthly magazine we have the responsibility of providing depth and perspective on issues that other publications cannot provide.
Payment varies depending on length and research involved. Pays on publication.
From the Web Site:
Aquarium Fish publishes articles about a wide variety of both fresh- and saltwater topics, and all of our authors are experts about what they write.
Who qualifies as an expert? If you have some experience with the fish you wish to write about, or a particular type of tank setup, that’s the best place to start. Long-term success with keeping fish is great, and a track record of successful breeding efforts is even better. This type of experience is much preferred over an author who simply scans a book or does some brief research on the Internet before churning out an article.
What should you write about? Topics could include a particular fish species, a family of fishes, how-to articles about setting up specific types of tanks, reef tanks and their occupants, personal experiences with tropical fishkeeping (provided there’s a lesson to be learned from the article), fish diseases, filtration hints, feeding tips, invertebrates (both fresh- and saltwater), ponds and pond fish and anything else that has to do with the fishkeeping hobby, both salt and fresh (or that interesting in-between world of the brackish dwellers). An occasional article about a unique species, even if it’s not widely kept (if at all) may sometimes appear in Aquarium Fish, but the appeal of such articles is limited. Plus, articles like those are difficult to illustrate. But if you have great photos to send along with the article, the piece stands a chance of being accepted.
Articles about a particular species of fish, or family of fish, should contain a bit of natural history as well as, and this is most important, detailed care and husbandry of the fish in captivity. Include info about tank size, food, water temperature, pH, salinity levels (if applicable), tank setup, potential tankmates, fish temperament, lighting, potential lifespan (if writing about large fish that live a long time), etc. Aquarium Fish is mostly intended for the beginner to intermediate aquarist, so include as much basic info as you can.
