Personal essay pitches wanted (education) | $125 per piece
Added 2024-01-04 16:25:39 +0000 UTCCOMPANY/PUBLICATION: CHALKBEAT
Gabrielle Birkner, Features Editor at Chalkbeat, is looking for pitches:
I'm an editor at the education news site Chalkbeat, and I oversee our personal essay series. We pay $125 per published piece. I'm at firstperson@chalkbeat.org. Here are our submission guidelines: https://www.chalkbeat.org/pages/first-person-guidelines
CONTACT INFORMATION (please do not share the email address publicly):
- Submissions: firstperson@chalkbeat.org
- Website: https://www.chalkbeat.org/
TO HELP YOU CRAFT YOUR PITCH:
- Learn more about the publication: Chalkbeat is a nonprofit news organization committed to covering one of America’s most important stories: the effort to improve schools for all children, especially those who have historically lacked access to a quality education. More information here.
- Read through a selection of recent First Person essays on its website.
- Review the submission guidelines here.
- 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 paragraph 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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