Pitches wanted (STEM, organizing, back to school) | $125 per article

COMPANY/PUBLICATION: SISTER

New call for pitches! STEM folks, what’s on your mind as you return for this academic year? What are you returning to this "back to school" season? Organizing and protesting? Navigating COVID and mask bans? STEM students and faculty, we want to share your voice! We’re looking for essays and op-eds on student protests, COVID, and more.

CALL FOR PITCHES:

We invite you to join our growing list of contributors writing about STEM’s most pressing issues. We are currently accepting pitches on the following:

• Back to [____]. What does “back to school” mean for you this year? Are you going back to organizing and protesting? New restrictions on protesting? Back to navigating COVID? Back to the threat of mask bans? Some optional prompts to consider:

• What do you care about that you wish your university also cared about?

• How are you mobilizing your campus? What have you learned and what advice can you share?

This is an open-ended call for STEM students or faculty to share their perspectives in the form of short essays and op-eds. Pitches will be accepted on a rolling basis. Please submit your pitch below!
Guidelines and Tips

What do we look for? We accept pieces that 1) Illuminate the lived experiences of people in STEM, especially those who have been historically marginalized 2) Push the boundaries of the conversation by offering a new question, angle, or perspective.

Final articles should be approximately 700-1,000 words in length. We encourage a conversational, non-technical tone, and recommend against long, dense paragraphs.

Who can write for us? We aim to amplify historically marginalized voices in STEM. Our authors are gender minorities, people of color, members of the LGBTQIA+ community, people with disabilities, first-generation students, New Americans, and more.

Are authors paid? We offer authors a $125 honorarium for each published piece.

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CONTACT INFORMATION:

• Submissions: Via the webform

• Website: https://sisterstem.org

TO HELP YOU CRAFT YOUR PITCH:

• Learn more about the publication: Sisters in STEM is an online platform dedicated to empowering young women of color in STEM fields through content that highlights their contributions, experiences, and challenges. The site features articles, interviews, and resources aimed at promoting diversity and inclusion in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics. SISTEM offers a space for inspiration and guidance for women pursuing STEM careers, with a focus on storytelling and educational support. More information here.

• Read through its selection of recent articles/stories, categorized into: Women in Stem, STEM Activism, Academia, Disability in STEM, COVID-19 Pandemic, STEM Equity, Immigration, Gatekeeping in STEM

• 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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