Pitches wanted (religion, culture, media) | $200 to $500 per article

COMPANY/PUBLICATION: THE REVEALER

Brett A. Krutzsch, Editor of The Revealer, is open for pitches:

Writers and scholars: A short guide on pitching The Revealer, the online magazine about religion + society where I’m the Editor. We value your work and pay writers. Want to write for a broad audience interested in religion, society, and media? Pitch us at editor@therevealer.org

To get a sense of tone, scope, and what we cover, read some of what we’ve published. Read our current issue or any back issues online. You can search our full database of articles to see what we’ve covered and how recently. Sign up to receive our monthly issues for free.

We publish as a monthly magazine, so we typically start thinking about each issue 4 or more months in advance. Have an idea for summer 2023? Great! But because we are an online magazine, we can also occasionally squeeze something in sooner.

We run several types of articles. 1) Feature articles: originally researched or reported pieces. 2) Perspective pieces: opinion/commentary based on one’s expertise, experiences, or research one has done for something like a forthcoming book. 3) Reviews of shows/films/books.

Revealer readers expect our articles to offer sophisticated and nuanced insights about religion, while still being accessible to a broad audience. Our readers want vivid writing, descriptive scenes, and insights they are not likely to find elsewhere.

To pitch us, email your idea in a concise paragraph, what you need to do or have already done to write the piece, and why you’re the person to do it. Grab our attention with the pitch in much the same way you’ll grab readers’ attention in your article’s first paragraph.

The best pitches are the ones where we can easily visualize the article, why it is important, and what readers will glean from it.

In an effort to provide full pay transparency: We currently pay $500 for feature articles, $300 for perspective pieces, and $200 for reviews.

We do our best to respond to all pitches. Have an idea for an article about religion + society or religion + media that you’d like to write? Email us your pitch at editor@therevealer.org.

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

• Questions/submissions: editor@therevealer.org
• Website: https://therevealer.org

TO HELP YOU CRAFT YOUR PITCH:

• Learn more about the publication: The Revealer is a magazine that explores religion and its many roles in society and people’s lives. It aims to help the public better understand topics covered elsewhere by pointing a wider lens, providing greater context, and offering more nuanced perspectives. It takes seriously how religion shapes, and is shaped by, race, sexuality, gender, politics, history, and culture. More information here.
• Read through its selection of recent articles/stories, categorized into: Catholicism, Religion and Race, Religion and Media, Religion and Sexuality, Anti-Semitism
• 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 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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