Pitches/submissions wanted for youth advocacy magazine | $125 to $300 per article

COMPANY/PUBLICATION: MENTOR

Deadline: 31 May 2023

Amaris Ramey, Grassroots Organizing Manager at MENTOR, is looking for pitches:

I'm looking for submissions for a youth-advocacy magazine. Send me pieces around identity, wellness, education, equity, and advocacy. Pay is between $125-$300. I am looking for writers under 25 and especially interested in writers who have not been published before. You can check out what type of work we accept at http://youthpac.mentoring.org US writers only. Send your full work or pitch to aramey@mentoring.org (Subject: Attention: Online Magazine Submission). Deadline: Last day of May.

YOUTHPAC SUBMISSIONS

THEME:

The overall theme for our online magazine (https://youthpac.mentoring.org/) is Power. We are currently searching for submissions that highlight identity & community, education & equality, health & wellness, and electoral advocacy.

WHAT WE WANT:

• Short essays (300-800 words)
• Critique/Analysis (600-800 words)
• Poems/Prose
• Illustrations/Graphics
• Videos (up to 3 minutes)
• Photography

PAY:

MENTOR will compensate for selected submissions to be used as part of the Youth-Led Advocacy Guide work at a rate of at least $125 and up to $300. Compensation will be provided for selected submissions after an MOU is signed.

THINGS YOU NEED TO KNOW:

• Acceptable file formats: jpeg, .png, .doc, .docx. .mp4, .mov
• Maximum file size: 2 GB
• Minimum width: 1500px
• If you are including an illustration, photo, and/or graphic, please provide a one sentence summary of your submission.
• MENTOR will accept up to five submissions from each person:
• You will know within two weeks if your submission was accepted
• Submissions are accepted on a rolling basis.
• If your submission is selected, MENTOR will provide a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to you to be signed. This agreement will grant MENTOR permission to display your work, with proper citation, in the PDF version of the Youth-Led Advocacy Guide, on the Youth-Led Advocacy webpage, as part of promotion for these resources, and/or as part of other MENTOR National web, e-communications or social media publications. The Youth-Led Advocacy Guide’s name may change over the course of its development, but the agreement laid out in the MOU would remain the same.

QUESTIONS? — Send an email to Amaris Ramey (They/Them) at aramey@mentoring.org

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

• Questions/submissions: aramey@mentoring.org
• Website: https://youthpac.mentoring.org/

TO HELP YOU CRAFT YOUR PITCH:

• Learn more about the publication: MENTOR and its network of affiliates are non-partisan organizations that seek to fuel the quantity and quality of mentoring relationships for America’s young people and to close the youth mentoring gap.
• Read through its selection of recent articles/stories, categorized into: Wellness and Culture, Education and Equity, Politics and Advocacy, Identity and Community
• 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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