Pitches wanted (music, originators) | $100 per article

COMPANY/PUBLICATION: NO BELLS

Deadline: 7 February 2024

Mano Sundaresan, Founder and Editor in Chief of No Bells, is looking for pitches:

Surprise: we’ve decided to take the blog to the physical realm. No Bells Magazine #1 is coming to an online store/bookshop/record store/*whoever will let us sell this thing* near you later this year. Same focus, underground music, but hopefully a million times cooler. We’ll continue to post on the blog the next few months, but likely at a slower rate as we redirect our attention to learning how to make a print magazine in the decade of Streaming and Short Form Content.

The theme of this edition is ORIGINATORS and we’re currently accepting pitches. We’re looking for:

• Interviews/profiles
• Lists
• Reported pieces
• Photography/visual art
• Weird essays
• Games (crosswords, word searches, etc.)

Email your pitches/ideas to mano@nobells.blog and millan@nobells.blog with the subject “MAGAZINE PITCH:” followed by a quick headline. Rates start at $100.

Pitches due by February 7.

Pitches should:

• Be concise.
• Reflect your voice, curiosity and personality.
• Have more intention beyond “I wanna interview so-and-so because he’s hot right now.”
• Include some prior work if you haven’t contributed to No Bells before.

Please hit me or Millan up if you have any questions. Thanks and have fun with it!

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

• Questions/submissions: mano@nobells.blog
• Website: https://nobells.blog/

TO HELP YOU CRAFT YOUR PITCH:

• Learn more about the publication: No Bells originally began in 2021 as a catch-all for niche music blogging. It has since become a hub of the wider internet underground, looking forwards and backwards at the records that shape scenes and shake our bodies. More information here.
• Read through its selection of recent articles/stories, categorized into: Interviews, Lists, Bells and Whistles
• Review the submission guidelines here.
• Check out our collection of pitch excerpts on this page and find more sample pitches at The Open Notebook 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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