Pitches (science, infrastructure, artificial intelligence, etc.) | $300 to $600+ per article

COMPANY/PUBLICATION: IDEAS

How did we get to now? Where might we go from here?

Long Now is accepting pitches of essays, reported features, interviews, book reviews, fiction and poetry for Ideas, our living archive of long-term thinking.

For more information on the kinds of stories we're looking for, how much we pay, and how to pitch us, see our pitch guide: https://longnow.org/ideas/pitch-guide/

There is wisdom and clarity to be gained from taking the long view. Long Now Ideas gives our readers the context they need to take that view. Our stories are set against a longer temporal backdrop, going further backwards and forwards in time than the typical news story.

A Long Now story takes this civilizational vantage point not as an abdication of the concerns of the here-and-now but as an invitation to consider their deep origins and possible futures.

We're looking for pieces that take a long-term perspective on a wide range of topics, including but not limited to:

• Biotechnology and artificial intelligence
• Maintenance and infrastructure
• Our relationship with the biosphere
• The preservation of knowledge and institutions

Long Now stories look between what we call Pace Layers – the interlocking systems of society, each moving at a different rate.

Examining the interplay between these layers – from the fast rhythm of fashion to the glacial pace of nature – allows for deep insight on civilization

You can browse our full archive at http://longnow.org/ideas, with many of the articles featuring illustrations from Long Now's own Casey Cripe

Payment varies depending on kind of story, reporting involved, and time commitment.

Payment starts at $600 for features and essays, and ranges between $300 - $600 for interviews, reviews, and short-form journalism. We pay $100 for science fiction stories and $25 per poem.

For more details, see our pitch guide: https://longnow.org/ideas/pitch-guide 

We welcome your contributions to the conversation around long-term thinking.

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

• Questions/submissions: ideas@longnow.org
• Website: https://longnow.org/ideas/

TO HELP YOU CRAFT YOUR PITCH:

• Learn more about the publication: The Long Now Foundation is a non-profit dedicated to making long-term thinking more common. Its work encourages imagination at the timescale of civilization — the next and last 10,000 years — a timespan we call "the long now." Ideas, the Foundation's living archive of long-term thinking, publishes essays, reported features, interview, book reviews and shorter articles in the hope to preserve possibilities for the future and expand our collective sense of the present moment.
• Read through its selection of recent articles/stories, categorized into: Art, Civilization, Culture, Environment, Globalization, History, Infrastructure, Technology, Science
• 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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