Pitches wanted (food) | $300 per article

COMPANY/PUBLICATION: EATEN MAGAZINE

Deadline: 16 February 2022

I've started work on Eaten's 14th edition and am looking for stories.

The theme for this volume is "processed" which could mean anything from the history of making a dish that has 10,000 steps to the legacy of flamin hot cheetos to the invention of the artificial banana flavor. Please get as creative as your heart desires!

I am looking for stories that will ultimately be between 800 and 1500 words, are historical in nature, and can be readily tied to the theme (in any of its interpretations.)

And this bit is the same from calls for pitches past but for the new people on this list, I realize history is not generally something that many journalists regularly write so I wanted to add a few pointers to help you all with pitching. Fundamentally this “historical in nature” is what I look for above all else. I am not interested in stories of contemporary journalism that mention history; I am looking for pieces that primarily focus on something that happened in the past that may or may not have a tie into the present. In the best stories, this relevance to the present will be evident in the history in and of itself.

Generally speaking, I also don’t go for pieces that are simply “the history of cheese” or “the history of grapefruit.” That’s not to say single ingredients don’t have fascinating backgrounds, but the more interesting historical pieces tend to have another layer on top of that. The history of cheese in a broad sense is just not as interesting to me as why Samuel Pepys buried his cheese during the London Fire; the story of a grapefruit variety that was developed after being pounded by radiation is much more catching that the general history of that fruit.

Hopefully these guidelines are helpful for developing ideas. If you want concrete examples of what I am talking about, a few sample articles can be found at the Dropbox link here. This time around I’ve also included in that folder a list of the topics of all the pieces I’ve previously published; if you’re worried your topic has already been covered, please check there.

The going rate for stories is $300 per article of whatever length and the deadline for pitches is Wednesday February 16th. Please send your pitches to hello@eatenmagazine.com with PITCH: EATEN No. 14 somewhere in the subject line to help me keep everything organized! Deadlines for the full pieces would be three to four weeks after that, though I’m pretty flexible on this.

And I won’t be reading any pitches until the days after the deadline so no need to rush submissions before then. And I receive too many pitch emails to be able to give feedback on ideas before the deadline so please no “taster emails” to gauge my interest in an idea before its fully fleshed out. But I promise to respond to all pitches, even the ones I don’t ultimately choose.

Happy to answer any further questions you may have and I look forward to hearing your story ideas!

CONTACT INFORMATION:

Questions / submissions: hello@eatenmagazine.com

Website: https://www.eatenmagazine.com/

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