Pitches wanted (health, advocacy, arts) | $100 per article

COMPANY/PUBLICATION: PESTE MAGAZINE

Pitch us. We are open to pitches for commentaries, book reviews, interviews, and poetry. Pitch us at submissions@pestemag.com. More details at https://pestemag.com/about-us.

HOW TO PITCH PESTE MAGAZINE

Please send a 2-3 paragraph pitch to submissions@pestemag.com. It is easier for us to work together from a pitch than a draft. Pitches should tell us: what’s the problem, what’s at stake, why now, and what’s your different or unexpected take.

What we want: Interviews, book reviews, commentary pieces, or poetry. Specific pieces that document the decisions, policies, and structures that produce illness and disease. Please be original. Funny is good, too. Sanctimonious bad.

What we don’t want: Your version of another article that’s been written before, only this time by you. Nothing that could have been submitted for a class. Nothing that requires a graduate degree to read.

What we pay: We pay $100 on publication for book reviews and commentary pieces. No, that is not much. But it is $100 more than STAT First Opinion pays — and we only have $3,294 in the bank.

If you are not a writer but want to support writers, please consider a subscription to our patreon. Peste Magazine is incorporated as Peste Corporation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit. Your donation/subscription to Peste is tax deductible. Our EIN is 88-3848163.

If you are still unsure what to pitch Peste Magazine, please consult our flowchart.

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

• Questions/submissions: submissions@pestemag.com
• Website: https://www.pestemag.com/

TO HELP YOU CRAFT YOUR PITCH:

• Learn more about the publication: Peste is a magazine of health journalism, advocacy, and the arts.
• Read through its selection of recent articles/stories, categorized into: Large-Scale Medicine, Mortality Combat, Lost to Follow-Up, The Cost of Living, Mind-Body Problems, Books, Before You Die or After, The Snowzies
• 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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