Pitches wanted (electoral coverage) | 40 cents per word

COMPANY/PUBLICATION: SCALAWAG

Tea Troutman, Editor at Scalawag, is looking for pitches:

Scalawag has a new call for pitches for electoral coverage from the voices of southern movements.

With the 2024 election, America’s movements from across the political spectrum–far right to far left–will decide the course of the nation’s future.

Fear-mongering campaigns from Democrats and Republicans alike warn of “stark futures” if the other party is elected.

Within this contentious race, campaign platforms lack adequate engagement with the issues our movements continue to research, advocate around, and respond to in the face of increased state abandonment.

Meanwhile, elections strain this capacity, and the elected officials offer no solutions. The Uncommitted Movement and the larger Gaza Solidarity movement—as well as anti-state anarchist movements such as mutual aid responses to COVID and natural disasters—show us that when crisis hits, it is our community and movement infrastructures that heed the call.

In the South, plantation hegemony has only ever been modernized, despite the myths of its overthrow. The abandonment structure here has produced a status quo of limited engagement with the state-as-savior. And so, we turn to Southern movements for analysis on election outcomes and possible futures.

For this reason, Scalawag’s coverage of the 2024 Presidential Election seeks pitches from organizers, advocates, and activists doing influential movement work across the South to reflect on the election.

These reflections may include analyses of the candidates and their campaigns as they relate to Southern places and movements, voter suppression trends, the carceral state, climate catastrophe and the state’s non-response, and more.

These movements include but are not at all limited to:

• Reproductive justice, abortion funds & closed clinics

• ATL’s Cop City as the template for other Cop Cities nationwide, GILEE and other deadly exchange programs, and southern anti-prison movements

• Campus movements, youth repression, and public education advocacy

• The StopMVP movement against the Mountain Valley Pipeline, and other land and environmental struggles

• Trans advocacy and trans-panic in this year’s election

• Abandonment & disaster recovery

Our rates are $.40/word for essays.

Please send your pitches to tea@scalawagmagazine.org.

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CONTACT INFORMATION (please do not share the email address publicly):

• Questions/submissions: tea@scalawagmagazine.org

• Website: https://scalawagmagazine.org

TO HELP YOU CRAFT YOUR PITCH:

• Learn more about the publication: Scalawag Magazine is a digital publication focused on Southern politics, culture, and social justice. It covers topics such as racial justice, labor rights, environmental issues, and local activism, with a particular emphasis on underrepresented voices and communities in the American South. Scalawag aims to foster thoughtful dialogue and provide in-depth reporting on the challenges and opportunities facing the region. More information here.

• Read through its selection of recent articles/stories, categorized into: Southern Politics, Race & Place, Arts & Soul

• Review the submission guidelines here. Note that these are the publication's general guidelines to help you refine your pitch. You must still follow the editor's specific instructions above.

• Check out our collection of pitch excerpts on this page and find more sample pitches at The Open Notebook Database and at SuccessfulPitches.com.

• Do not forget to end your pitch with (1) a short introduction about yourself; (2) a few lines highlighting your writing experience, relevant credentials and publication credits; and (3) links to your strongest work or portfolio, and online profile.

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