Pitches wanted (backpacking, outdoors) | $150-$250 per piece
Added 2021-02-03 20:54:53 +0000 UTC[This opportunity was posted 30+ days ago and has expired.]
If you've ever wanted to pitch, now is a good time. We're actively assigning stories for February and beyond. News, travel, skills, profiles, essays all welcome. Backpacking, the outdoors, and anything you can reasonably link to it.
Eternal caveat: If you're going to pitch me a first-person hiking narrative ("I did X hike and I want to tell you about how I experienced it"), be aware that I get truckloads of these and the bar to get one accepted is very high.
Online rates range from $150-$250, with average being $175-$200. We may, on rare occasions, pay more for something that really makes us see stars, and sometimes pay less for very short hits or contributions to larger round-ups.
Here are a few ways to get an article on our site:
- Bring me something timely (newsy or seasonal)
- Bring me something I haven't heard of before
- Show me something old from a new angle
- Be able to summarize your story in a sentence or two (I know, it loses nuance, but I'm an online editor in the end, and it will convince me that your concept is solid.)
Here are some things that will make it harder to land an assignment, but not impossible:
- Pitch an essay about a hike that changed your life/where you overcame adversity and came out stronger for it. (I get dozens of these and they make my eyes glaze over.)
- Pitch me a destination story about a trail outside of North America (we cover these, but less often than US/Canadian trails, so the bar is high.)
- Pitch me a destination story about a place that's exceptionally well-documented—the Wonderland Trail, Yosemite Valley, etc.
You don't need to have experience writing about the outdoors or a vast portfolio to write us. If you're a competent and reliable writer with good ideas, we'll work with you.
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