Pitches wanted (health, illness, disability) | $400-$800 per piece

COMPANY/PUBLICATION: FOLKS 

Folks is an online magazine dedicated to telling the stories of remarkable people who refuse to be defined by their health issues. By sharing the experiences of these individuals, we hope to change people’s notions about what it means to be ‘normal’.

Editorially independent, Folks is sponsored and published by PillPack. Part of our mission at PillPack is to create healthcare experiences that empower people. We believe that people are more than just their conditions, and managing health is an important part of everyone’s life.

Folks aims to tell stories that help normalize people’s ideas about what it means to live with chronic illness or disability. Our stories do this by:

• Making illness relatable to everyone, even people without a health condition.
• Educating readers about the human side of having a health condition.
• Confronting and reducing stigma around being disabled or ill.
• Illustrating that managing a health condition is a normal part of living a fulfilling life.
• Answering specific and relatable questions about the experience of being ill or disabled.

Folks is proud to pay competitive rates to all our writers. We pay $400 for essays, $600 for reported profiles, and $800 for reported features. For all stories, we buy a one-year publishing exclusive, after which you can publish the piece elsewhere.

Read the guidelines here.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

• Questions / submissions: folks@pillpack.com
• Website: https://folks.pillpack.com/

TO HELP YOU CRAFT YOUR PITCH:

• Learn more about the publication: Folks is an online magazine dedicated to telling the stories of remarkable people who refuse to be defined by their health issues. By sharing the experiences of these individuals, it hopes to change people’s notions about what it means to be ‘normal’. More information here.
• Read through its selection of recent articles/stories, categorized into: Chronic Illness, Disability, Mental Health, Chronic Pain, Advice
• 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.