Pitches wanted (biotechnology) | $500 to $2,000 per article

COMPANY/PUBLICATION: ASIMOV PRESS

Nico McCarty, Founding Editor of Asimov Press, is looking for pitches:

The first issue of our magazine will appear in March 2024. Its core theme will be Biosecurity, but we also have space for essays on other topics. Please pitch us at editors@asimov.com.

A bit more on what we're looking for

Essays (1,200-2,000 words): An essay should explain a new way of thinking. We're after “timeless” articles that will inspire readers, and open up their eyes to a new facet of biotechnology. We love classics from Hamming, Feynman, etc. and hope to do the same for biology.

Deep Dives (2,500+ words): Data-driven explorations of a story, technology, place, or person. These pieces clearly describe key challenges, and articulate how biotechnology — or other means — are being used to solve them. These articles shed light on how hard-won progress can be.

Speculative Fiction: We're after pieces that imagine positive, and plausible, biological futures. Science, rather than characters or plot, should be the focus. Explanations of technologies should be detailed and mechanistic. We really like "Lena" by qntm: https://qntm.org/lena

Rates typically range from $500 for short ~1,000 word pieces to $2,000 for a 'Deep Dive'.

Full guidelines here: https://press.asimov.com/resources/pitch-guide

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

• Questions/submissions: editors@asimov.com
• Website: https://press.asimov.com/

TO HELP YOU CRAFT YOUR PITCH:

• Learn more about the publication: Asimov Press exists to make sense of swift developments in biotechnology and the concomitant risks that emerge alongside them. It publishes narrative, data-driven pieces that make sense of biotechnology and its applications, deconvolute messy ideas, and contextualize new ones. More information here.
• Read through a selection of recent articles/stories 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 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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