Pitches due May 4th (culture, profiles, fashion, cannabis) (worldwide) | 40 to 50 cents per word

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Deadline: 4 May 2020 (9 am EST) 

I’m one of the people who read all of your pitch  emails. It’s a little unnerving to be planning a magazine that won’t be  in the world until Fall 2020. Who knows what the world will be like? Who  knows what people will want to read? Who knows if people will want to  read anything?

But safe escape hatches that we can  access from the comfort of our couches feel pretty essential right now.  Even in the before, we wanted to be a page-turnable portal to a  place full of curious and interesting things, some weed-related, some  not, and this will be our tenth issue. We’re hoping to pull together  something marvelous to mark the occasion and connect people through a  shared 88-page experience.

Before we get into the  pitches, two notes. First—and as always—we pay writers. Rates are  negotiated when we commission a story, and we do our best to match your  standard rate. Rates usually hover somewhere between $.40-$.50/word,  with flat rates for shorter pieces in the $75-$100 range. Article  lengths range from 300-1500 words.

Second: We read and  review every pitch, and decide after the pitch window closes which  stories to commission. So if you email a pitch right away, expect to  wait a bit for an answer. And quality always trumps speed.

Pitches  are due by 9:00 a.m. EST Monday, May 4th, and all stories will be  assigned by Friday, May 8th. First drafts will be due by June 1st. Any  feature assigned for Issue 11 will have later deadlines. Keep in mind  that there is a three-month lead time between issues. Issue 10 will hit  stands in Fall 2020.

Thanks for reading this mini-epic. I’m looking forward to spending the next week with your emails. Read on for pitch prompts!

PITCH PROMPTS

ARTFUL  LIVES: We love profiles of interesting women or nonbinary folks,  especially artists, writers, musicians, and designers who blazed their  own trails. (See previous issues for Sister Rosetta Tharpe, Sister  Corita Kent, Pegge Hopper, Leonora Carrington, Maruja Mallo, etc.) Could  be dead or living, ideally not be a household name. (Pro tip: if you  pitch a visual artist, please include who controls rights to the work.  Budgets and logistics are real, and we have to be sure we can get  permissions and afford to license images. Looking back in history is an  asset; all hail the public domain!) 600 to 800 words.

COMFORT  OBJECTS: In unsettling times, how do we take care of ourselves? How do  we take care of each other? Looking for a writer who can transcend the  personal to thoughtfully explore how time and culture shape our notions  of comfort, and what it might mean to find comfort in this particular  moment. Important: we are not looking for articles about weed as  self-care, or personal self-care rituals, unless it’s something really  unusual that ties to a bigger cultural idea. 600 to 1000 words.

FASCINATING  PEOPLE IN ACTIVISM/ART/MUSIC/WRITING/FASHION: Jarina De Marco, Nina  Parks, Mennlay Golokeh Aggrey, Claire Evans—this is just a sampling of  some of the interesting people writers have interviewed.  Pitch us the person you’d like to talk with for Issue 10; stories  featuring people of color or people outside of North America are  especially welcome. Q & A format; assignments range from 800 to  1,000 words.

STORIES THAT NEED TO BE TOLD: We’re  curious to hear what stories are calling to you right now. What  stories—in the weed world or the wide world—are not being heard? This is  a call to think beyond the personal and use your power as a  writer/storyteller to elevate something important and overlooked. Please  keep in mind that this will not publish until fall 2020. Consider the  way the world is shifting as you craft your pitch; we can’t be  news-focused due to our long lead time. Length and format TBD depending  on pitch, no more than 1,000 words. 

POTLUCK: Want to  pitch us something else, not on the list above? Please do. We are a  magazine for cannabis lovers, but only some of what we publish directly  references weed. We love fresh, informed writing that is funny,  thoughtful, curious, and smart.

CONTACT INFO AND EXTRA DETAILS

Concise pitches are  preferred, and please don’t send attachments; keep it all in the body of  the email. Include links to the writing that best captures your voice  and perspective. We read every pitch and will reply to every email.

We pay all contributors; rates are negotiated when a piece is commissioned.

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