Pitches Wanted (Preservation, History, Humanity, etc.) (worldwide) | $300 to $600+ per article

Long Now is accepting pitches for Ideas, our living archive of long-term thinking. Long Now stories take the long view to expand our collective sense of the present moment. Some stories investigate change over deep time, contextualizing a given subject within its past and speculating on possible futures. Others profile the people, projects, and ideas that embrace long-term thinking to address humanity's most significant challenges. Still others offer prescriptive approaches for how to make long-term thinking automatic and common, instead of difficult and rare. Broadly speaking, we're seeking stories that explore the long now of the following subjects and disciplines: climate change and the environment; the preservation of knowledge; the rise and fall of civilizations; the longevity of institutions; biotechnology and artificial intelligence; the history of science and technology; architecture, design and urbanism; the nature of time; space travel; globalization; migration; economics; governance; maintenance; and infrastructure (both physical and intellectual). Payment varies depending on the kind of story, the reporting involved, and the time commitment. Payment starts at $600 for features and ranges between $300 - $600 for essays, interviews, book reviews, science journalism, and news articles. We pay $100 for science fiction stories and $25 per poem (with a maximum of four poems per submission).