How to Pitch (pitching guidelines for 167 publications)

Hiya writers! Thanks so much for your interest in our How to Pitch section.

We know that finding markets to pitch your story ideas, understanding what they’re looking for, and making sure they pay an amount you’re comfortable with can be the most time-consuming and frustrating part of the job. So we’ve tried to make it easier for you.

Here’s a list of publications, organized by subject and with a note of their pay rates, each with a link to their guidelines.

Happy pitching!

(Rates in USD unless specified.)

Alumni (2)

• Middlebury magazine (Pay unspecified)
• Notre Dame (Pay unspecified)

Business (13)

• Alaska Business Monthly (Pay rate unspecified)
• Atlanta Tribune (Pay unspecified)
• BCBusiness (Rates vary based on complexity)
• Business Insider (Reported pay $200-800)
• Income Diary (Pays $200)
• Seattle Business (Pay rate unspecified)
• Senior Executive (Pay rate unspecified)
• Smart Business Trends (Pays $200-$500)
• Stocks & Commodities (Pays $3 per column inch)
• The Ken (Pays $0.25 a word)
• The Tilt (Pays $250 in $TILT coin)
• Traders.com Advantage (Pays $50 per article)
• Working Money (Pays $180 per article)

Children/Teens (2)

• Focus on the Family Clubhouse (Pays between 15 and 25 cents a word)
• Focus on the Family Clubhouse Jr. (Pays between 15 and 25 cents a word)

Current Affairs (7)

• Briarpatch (Pay rate unspecified)
• CS Monitor (Reported pay $600)
• Mother Jones (Pay rate unspecified)
• Slate (Reported pay $350)
• The Diplomat (Pay rate unspecified)
• The Nation (Pay rate unspecified)
• The New Republic (Reported pay $300-$400; up to $1-a-word for features)

Education (2)

• American Educator (Pay unspecified)
• The Chronicle of Higher Education (Pay: competitive)

Environment/Climate/Wildlife (14)

• American Falconry (Pay starts at $100)
• Bay Nature (Pays $0.20-$1 a word)
• Earth Island Journal (Pays 25 cents a word for print, $150 for online)
• Grist (Pay unspecified)
• Mother Earth News (Pays up to $100)
• National Geographic (Reportedly pays $1 a word)
• National Parks Conservation Association (Pay rate unspecified)
• Outrider (Pays $1,000 per story)
• Sierra (Pays $350 for web, $1 a word for print)
• Tennessee Wildlife Magazine (Pays $0.15 a word)
• The Old Farmer’s Almanac (Pay rate unspecified)
• The Revelator (Pays $300-$500)
• The Third Pole (Pay unspecified)
• Yes! (Pays $0.40 per word for online, $0.50 per word for print)

General Interest (5)

• AARP (Reported pay $1 a word)
• Gawker (Pays 50 cents a word for reported stories)
• Good Housekeeping (Pay rate unspecified)
• Psychology Today (Pays $1 a word)
• The Saturday Evening Post (Pay rate unspecified)

Health/Fitness/Wellness (3)

• ADDitude (Pay rate unspecified)
• Experience Life (Pay rate unspecified)
• Men’s Health (Pay rate unspecified)

Investigative (1)

• Tarbell (Reported pay $250-$700)

Journalism/Media/Publishing (12)

• BookLife (Pay unspecified)
• Catapult, Don’t Write Alone (Pay rates start at $200)
• Columbia Journalism Review (Pay rate unspecified)
• Creative Nonfiction (Pay unspecified) 
• Great Escape Publishing (Pays $150)
• Journo Resources (Pays up to £150 for features) 
• Nieman Reports (Pays $250 for opinion, $1-a-word for features)
• Nieman Storyboard (Pays $150-$400)
• The National Center for Business Journalism ($500 per piece)
• The Open Notebook ($1,350 for reported features)
• The Writer (Pay rate unspecified)
• Writer’s Digest (Pays 30-50 cents a word)

Literary (1)

• The New Quarterly, Canada (Pays $275)

LGBTQ (1)

• The Gay & Lesbian Review (Pays a flat fee of $200)

Money (1)

• The Financial Diet (Reported pay $250 for personal essays) 

Narrative (3)

• 1843 (The Economist’s magazine) (Pay rate unspecified)
• Longreads (Pays $1 a word for reporting, $500 for essays)
• Sunday Longread (Pays $2,000, with the possibility of expenses)

Opinion (4)

• Financial Times (Pay rate unspecified)
• LA Times (Op-ed) (Pay rate unspecified)
• The New York Times (Pay rate unspecified)
• The Washington Post (Pay unspecified)

Parenting and Family (1)

• Western New York Family (Pays up to $150)

Personal Essays (2)

• Los Angeles Times L.A. Affairs Column (Pays $300)
• The Audacity by Roxane Gay (Pays $2,000)

Regional (32)

• 1859 (Pays $0.30-$0.50 a word)
• 5280 (Reported pay: $0.50 and up) 
• Adirondack (Pay rate unspecified)
• Alaska (Pay rate unspecified)
• Albuquerque (Pay rate unspecified)
• AramcoWorld (Pay rate unspecified)
• Arizona Highways (Pay rate unspecified)
• Baltimore (Pay rate unspecified)
• Bloom (Pay rate unspecified)
• DesertUSA (Pays $50)
• Down East (Pays $0.60-$0.75 a word)
• Ft. Myers (Pay rate unspecified)
• Garden & Gun (Pay rate unspecified)
• Georgia Magazine (Pay rate unspecified)
• Idaho Magazine (Pay rate unspecified)
• New Jersey Monthly (Pay rate unspecified)
• New Mexico (Pays 35-40 cents a word) 
• High Country News (Pays $0.25 – $1.50 a word)
• Kentributor (Pays 15 cents a word)
• Lake Superior (Pays $200-$350)
• Mississippi Magazine (Pay rate unspecified)
• Ohio Magazine (Pay rate unspecified)
• Oklahoma Today (Pays $0.25 a word)
• Outback Magazine (Pays AUD 40-50 cents a word)
• Portland Monthly (Pay rate unspecified)
• Russian Life (Pay rate unspecified)
• Salt Lake (Pay rate unspecified)
• Spacing, Canada (Pay rate unspecified)
• Tahoe Quarterly (Pay rate unspecified)
• The Roost, London (Pays £250 flat fee)
• Traverse (Up to $700 for print)
• Yankee (Pay unspecified)

Religion (2)

• Today’s Christian Living (Pays $150 for features of 1,200-1,800 words)
• Salvo (Pays 20 cents per word)

Science & Technology (7)

• Discover (Pays $1 a word for print, $300/story for web)
• Future (Pay unspecified) 
• New Scientist (Reported pay up to $1 a word)
• Popular Mechanics (Reported pay: $300-$1,000)
• Scientific African Magazine (Pay rate unspecified)
• The Verge (Reported rates start at $350)
• Wired (Pay starts at $500 for online, $2,500 for print)

Special Interest (8)

• Aletheia Today (Pays $250 for feature articles)
• Cottage Life, Canada (Pay rate unspecified) 
• Cycling Weekly (Reported pay $150-$300)
• High Times (Pay rate unspecified) 
• Model Aviation (Pay rate unspecified)
• Rock & Gem (Pay rates unspecified)
• Winemaker (Pays $75-4300)
• Zymurgy (Pay rate unspecified)

Trade (7)

• American Bee Journal (Pays $100 per page)
• Army (Pay rate unspecified)
• Bee Culture (Pays $150-200)
• Glass (Pay rates unspecified)
• Insight (Pay unspecified)
• Planning (Pays up to $1,000 for features)
• Toastmaster (Pay rate unspecified)

Travel/Adventure (26)

• Afar (Pay starts at $0.50 a word)
• Backpacker (Reported pay 50 cents a word)
• Canadian Geographic (Pay unspecified)
• Caribbean Beat (Pay rate unspecified)
• Cruising World (Pays $800-$1,000 for feature articles)
• Explore, Canada (Pay rate unspecified)
• France Revisited (Pays $50)
• Fodor’s Travel (Reported pay $250-$300)
• GoNOMAD (Pays $25)
• Hemispheres (Pays $1 a word)
• Hit the Road (Pays $50)
• International Living (Pays up to $150 for web and $350 for print)
• Lonely Planet (Reported pay is 30 cents a word)
• Matador Network (Reported pay less than $0.10 a word)
• New Worlder (Pay unspecified)
• Outpost (Pay unspecified)
• Outside (Rates start at 50 cents a word)
• Pathfinders Travel (Pays $150)
• Ride Texas (Pay unspecified)
• Rova (Pays flat rate of $200 per article)
• Transitions Abroad (Pays up to $150)
• Travel + Leisure (Reported pay $1 a word)
• Verge (Pay rate unspecified)
• Via (Pay unspecified)
• Wanderlust, UK (Pays £220 per 1,000 words)
• World Nomads (Pays 50 cents a word)

Women (9)

• Chatelaine, Canada (Pay rate unspecified)
• DAME (Pays $350-750)
• Flare, Canada (Reported pay 25-80 cents a word)
• Minnesota Bride (Pay rate unspecified)
• Ms. (Pays 50 cents a word)
• Redbook (Pay rate unspecified)
• Sasee (Pay rate unspecified)
• Wisconsin Bride (Pay rate unspecified)
• Woman’s Day (Pay rate unspecified)

Work & Careers (2)

• BBC Worklife (Pay rate unspecified)
• HR Magazine, UK (Pay rate unspecified)