Pitches wanted (travel) | $300+ per piece

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I feel extremely lucky to have an incredibly wonderful dream job and I love my freelancers. And I'm always looking for Black, BIPOC, womxn, fat, disabled, new, fresh voices to pitch me! We start at $300 for articles.

How to make sure your pitch gets noticed from someone who reads pitches all day:

Have the title of your pitch in the subject line. Do not make your subject "Pitch", "Pitch for you", "writer idea" "Paris idea" or "story idea about morocco."

If you put "Time Sensitive" in a pitch's subject, and the story is not indeed, time sensitive, I will be grumpy. You will lose extra points if you do this and you wrote time sensitive in all caps.

Structure your pitch like this: Hi, [Editor's name here], I have an idea about X that I think your readers will love. *Sentence about what the main idea here.* *Another sentence about how you plan to approach* (are you interviewing people? etc.)

* One more sentence about why it's relevant, interesting, fun, funny, whatever* Then introduce yourself and say where you've written and hyperlink your clips. Then sign off!

No one taught me this when I left school, I had to figure things out on my own. So this is for all the fresh, young, intimidated, eager writers out there, you can and should pitch often. Get your money and your voice out there.

This is also for the bad emailers who clearly need some help. Your pitch will get ignored by outlets if you're writing Wikipedia entries with nothing subject lines.

Other tips: Do not submit on spec. I know it seems confident but we're not reading all that. Just send a thoughtful, organized pitch and spare yourself the wasted time.

Another tip: Show us some grace. Most of us are also former freelancers and understand the struggle of following up about payment, pub date, etc. I literally answer emails asking for the same things all day.

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