Pitches wanted (preservation, history, humanity, etc.) (worldwide) | $300 to $600+ per article

COMPANY/PUBLICATION: IDEAS 

Long Now is accepting pitches for Ideas, our living archive of long-term thinking.

Long Now stories take the long view to expand our collective sense of the present moment. Some stories investigate change over deep time, contextualizing a given subject within its past and speculating on possible futures. Others profile the people, projects, and ideas that embrace long-term thinking to address humanity's most significant challenges. Still others offer prescriptive approaches for how to make long-term thinking automatic and common, instead of difficult and rare.

Broadly speaking, we're seeking stories that explore the long now of the following subjects and disciplines: climate change and the environment; the preservation of knowledge; the rise and fall of civilizations; the longevity of institutions; biotechnology and artificial intelligence; the history of science and technology; architecture, design and urbanism; the nature of time; space travel; globalization; migration; economics; governance; maintenance; and infrastructure (both physical and intellectual).

Payment varies depending on the kind of story, the reporting involved, and the time commitment. Payment starts at $600 for features and ranges between $300 - $600 for essays, interviews, book reviews, science journalism, and news articles. We pay $100 for science fiction stories and $25 per poem (with a maximum of four poems per submission).

Read the full submission guidelines here.

Open to international writers? Yes.

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
• 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.