Pitches wanted (motorcycles) | $100 to $400 per article

COMPANY/PUBLICATION: RIDE TEXAS

Deadline: 5 April 2023

Julie Nordskog, Women's Editor at Ride Texas, is looking for pitches:

Call for Pitches: Ride Texas magazine is accepting pitches for our 2023 Summer and Fall issues. Our readers and writers ride motorcycles. Our regional focus is Texas and surrounding states, including Arkansas, Colorado, Louisiana, New Mexico, and Oklahoma. We love all the motorcycles -- all makes, models, and riding styles.

Ride Texas is a quarterly print and digital publication. Topics may include, but are not limited to, ride reports, profiles, routes, destinations, event previews (not post-event summaries), industry trends, racing, custom and vintage motorcycles, book reviews, and unbiased gear reviews. We’ll also consider pitches for “newsy” blog posts on ridetexas.com.

The pitch deadline for our Summer 2023 issue is April 5th. Prospective writers may request a sample digital magazine from squirrel<at> ridetexas<dot>com.

We'll continue to accept pitches on a rolling basis throughout the year.

Ride Texas pays $100 to $400 per article depending on length and depth of research. Blog posts pay $0.10/word for a 300- to 500-word post. No articles will be accepted without quality photographs. (Smartphone photographs will be considered.)

To familiarize yourself with our print magazine, request a sample copy from squirrel@ridetexas.com.

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

• Questions/submissions: squirrel@ridetexas.com
• Website: https://www.ridetexas.com/

TO HELP YOU CRAFT YOUR PITCH:

• Learn more about the publication: Ride Texas is a motorcycle-travel guide covering Texas and nearby states. The emphasis is on providing readers with relevant content that they can use for trip planning. The publication uses conversational storytelling to take readers along for joutneys on back roads and o undiscovered destinations that make for exciting weekend trips.
• Read through its selection of recent articles/stories, categorized into: Features, Blogs
• Review the submission guidelines here. Note that these are the publication's general guidelines to help you refine your pitch. You must still follow the editor's specific instructions above.
• 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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