Pitches Wanted (Creative Narrative Nonfiction, Reported Feature) (Worldwide) | $2,000+ per article
Peter Bailey-Wells, Senior Originals Editor for The Sunday Long Read, is looking for pitches: With enormous credit to writer Emily Fox Kaplan and editor Michelle Weber, the Sunday Long Read is lucky to have a new SLR original, co-published with Pipe Wrench Mag as part of their autumn issue: https://sundaylongread.com/2022/12/06/searching-for-zarahemla-a-van-the-yucatan-five-latter-day-saints-and-the-malleable-nature-of-truth/ The "road trip" issue from Pipe Wrench Mag is pretty amazing and features deep and funny and considerate work besides Emily's absolute smash-hit of a story: https://pipewrenchmag.com/issue-eight-welcome/ This is our last SLR original this year—you'll find Don Van Natta Jr. reviving our podcast for a convo with Emily later this week and this piece will be at the heart of our newsletter this weekend.
We published 5 pieces this year—1 for a project with Pulitzer Center , 1 with Team Trace , 1 with Pipe Wrench Mag , and 2 on our own. Kiley Bense deserves credit for jumping in and pitching in across the board; Don Van Natta Jr. and Jacob Feldman deserve credit for all the good the SLR does. We get dollar support from Ruth Ann Harnisch and loyal SLR subscribers and that allows us to pay writers (rates start at $2000 for a reported feature!) and illustrators and photographers for their work. Anagha Srikanth is wisely no longer on Twitter but puts it all together on our site. We're hoping to come out of the gate with some great pieces at the start of 2023. We have a few horses in the stable ready to run (including a story about horses) and if you read our work in 2022 I hope you return for more next year. I have the privilege of reading every pitch we get via originals@sundaylongread.com; Reach out if you want to work with the SLR. Details here, including rates and more (again, $2000 floor for reported feature writing, no fiction or listicles, please): https://sundaylongread.com/sunday-long-read-seeking-original-story-pitches/
WHAT WE’RE LOOKING FOR
- Longform nonfiction in its many forms. We want you to do reporting and talk to people. Research is good too. We want you to show us things, not just tell us things, and we like stories that are character- or narrative-driven.
- A story that brings a new topic, angle, or idea to the table. We share dozens of great longform stories in our newsletter every week and are comfortable with writers who want to address something we aren’t familiar with.
- New writers, old writers, writers from marginalized communities that have been underrepresented in media, established writers, up-and-coming writers, writers who need more coaching, writers who need less coaching, but most importantly, writers who care deeply about their work and want our help to make it better, not just to publish it.
- Here are examples of various previously published SLR originals. You can read more stories on our originals landing page.
Open to international writers? Yes!
- Submissions: originals@sundaylongread.com
- Website: https://sundaylongread.com/