Submissions / pitches wanted for blog series on racism | $100 per piece

COMPANY/PUBLICATION: FAMILY STORY 

Family Story is seeking submissions for our blog! We pay $100 if we publish your post. Here are the details.

We’re running a blog series that examines the ways anti-Black racism affects individuals and families and perpetuates the cycle of anti-Black violence. So we want your essays that discuss your firsthand account of the following:

• Have you dealt with racism toward children?
• Have you noticed folks using coded language to talk about you/your family in personal and professional settings?
• What racist assumptions have been made about you/your family in personal and professional settings?
• Have you or your family experienced anti-Black police violence and what impact did it have on you?
• What challenges did you face when creating your family (for example, encountering structural racism in the adoption process of accessing fertility treatments)?
• What else have you and your family dealt with that needs more attention?

THE TECHNICAL STUFF:

Submissions should be between 600 and 1,200 words, and include hyperlinks if you are citing other work. Please submit essays as Word documents, and be sure to include a short bio with links to your social profiles.

Pitches are great too! If you have an idea for an essay, feel free to pitch it to us. (We can’t promise to publish anything until we see a full draft, of course).

Please send your pitches or completed essays and opinion pieces for consideration to meredithlandry@gmail.com and we’ll get back to you as soon as possible.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

• Questions / submissions: meredithlandry@gmail.com
• Website: https://familystoryproject.org/blog/

TO HELP YOU CRAFT YOUR PITCH:

• Learn more about the publication: Family Story is a think tank founded in 2015 to recognize, validate, and protect the many ways individuals form and re-form families. It seeks to support and defend the dignity, value, and well-being of all families through research and fresh analysis on changing family structures and modern family life. More information here.
• Read through the selection of recent articles/stories on its website.
• Check out our collection of pitch excerpts on this page and find more sample pitches at The Open Notebook Database.