Pitches wanted (solutions, innovations) | ~85 cents per word

COMPANY/PUBLICATION: STANFORD SOCIAL INNOVATION REVIEW

Deadline: 5 February 2024

Marcie Bianco, Editor at Stanford Social Innovation Review, is looking for pitches:

Call for pitches: What’s Next articles for Stanford Social Innovation Review. 700 words, $600. These are reported articles written by journalists. See submission guidelines below:

What's Next (Print Magazine)

• Describes a new (usually less than two years old), promising, but not yet proven solution to an important social, environmental, or organizational problem. Here are all of the What’s Next articles, and here are two great examples: “Housecleaning With Benefits” and “Wary of an Opioid Epidemic, Europe Pushes Safe Sites for Drug Use.”
• Submissions are accepted from professional journalists and freelance writers. Alternatively, SSIR welcomes suggestions for topics of What's Next articles from non-professional writers.
• About 700-800 words long.
• Occasionally these will run online only, if editors have declined the article for the print magazine, or an author doesn't want to be published in the print magazine. Online-only versions may require notable alterations to the original submission.
• Send concise pitches to Marcie Bianco, editor, marcie@stanford.edu.

Deadline: Rolling; but early February for summer issue consideration.

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

• Questions/submissions: marcie@stanford.edu
• Website: https://ssir.org/

TO HELP YOU CRAFT YOUR PITCH:

• Learn more about the publication: Stanford Social Innovation Review is a magazine and website that covers cross-sector solutions to global problems. Its mission is to advance, educate, and inspire the field of social innovation by seeking out, cultivating, and disseminating research- and practice-based knowledge. SSIR aims to bridge research, theory, and practice on a wide range of topics, including human rights, impact investing, and nonprofit business models. More information here.
• Read through a selection of recent 'What's Next' articles/stories on its website.
• 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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