Culture Publications

Moment publishes unpredictable stories that interest members of all branches of the Jewish community. The magazine publishes investigative features, personal essays, human-interest stories, first-person narratives, issue explorations, intellectual thought pieces, culture pieces, poetry, book reviews, and short stories. Word length: 2500-7500 words. Payment: $40-$500/article, possibly more for assigned articles.

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Wine X is a young adult lifestyle magazine with wine and other beverages grafted on to it. The editors publish regular features on music, fashion, videos, books, travel and other relevant young adult culture. Buys on Spec. Word length: 1,000 – 1,200 words. Pay rates are negotiated per article.

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Toptenz.com publishes top 10 lists that inform and entertain, focusing on topics that vary from the norm and touch on the bizarre. The site adds a new list every weekday to fill several categories from bizarre to travel. The site maintains thousands of lists. The editor pays $50.00 upon acceptance of a completed article.

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The Washington Monthly is a publication covering politics, government, culture and the media. The magazine is published Bimonthly and includes investigative and opinion-based feature articles (2,000 to 5,000 words), occasional short news items and humorous sidebars (500 to 1,000 words), and book reviews of recent political and cultural titles (usually about 800 words). The pay rate for published articles is 10 cents per word.

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The editors are interested in original reporting and longform journalism (particularly about women and women-adjacent issues), short fiction and poetry (preferably strange), personal narratives, videos, illustrations and essays. Payment: TBD.

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Jewish Daily Forward regularly accepts submissions from outside contributors. Stories from outside the New York metropolitan area are in particular demand. The News section is looking for unexpected stories about the Jewish world. Fees differ depending on the intended medium, section and the work in question. Your editor should inform you of the rate upon commissioning your work.

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The Mission of The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide is to provide a forum for enlightened discussion of issues and ideas of importance to lesbians and gay men; to advance gay and lesbian culture by providing a quality vehicle for its best writers and thinkers; and to educate a broader public on gay and lesbian topics. The G&LR publishes essays, reviews, interviews, and poems — but not short fiction, and rarely personal memoirs or journals. Feature articles range from around 2,000 to 4,000 words, with a golden mean of 2,500 to 3,000 words. Contributors of original feature articles receive a flat fee of $100.

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Smoky Mountain Living is a magazine covering the southern Appalachians and celebrates the area’s environmental riches, its people, culture, music, arts, history, and special places. Feature story, 1,500-3,500 words, 5-10 photos required. Pays $250-$450. Smoky Mountain Living Magazine buys exclusive First North American serial rights.

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Smithsonian Magazine buys first North American serial rights only. Article length ranges from a 700-word humor column to a 4,000-word full-length feature. Editors want articles that fall within the general range of Smithsonian Institution interests, such as: cultural history, physical science, art and natural history. The editors are always looking for offbeat subjects and profiles. Payment various per feature, up to $1,500 per short piece.

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Sesi is a quarterly teen magazine edited for today’s eclectic African-American/Black girl between the ages of 13 and 19. Sesi is dedicated to providing Black girls with a community that focuses on celebrating them and their culture by covering beauty, fashion, relationships, health, education, careers, entertainment, fiction, and social issues. Articles will vary in word length depending on the topic (1,000 words to 4,000 words). Deadlines and payment will be discussed upon assignment.

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Salvo publishes an eclectic range of articles in the areas of sex, science, and society. What distinguishes our content is its systematic deconstruction of false ideologies, philosophies, and worldviews. Articles should be no less than 600 words and no more than 2500. Original articles are given an honorarium of 20 cents per published word. Salvo buys the right to the first publication of an original article.

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Reformed Perspective is published 11 times a year and is sent out to 2000 subscribers around the world. These subscribers are almost all from a conservative Reformed background and include members of the Canadian Reformed, United Reformed, and Australian Free Reformed churches as well as many others. It is aimed at a broad age group encompassing the entire family. For articles from 800-2000 words the honorarium ranges from $30 – $55.

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Founded in 1922, Readers Digest is one of the largest media companies in the world, producing 50 independent editions in 20 languages worldwide. The Canadian edition began in 1947 and is the largest magazine is Canada, with over 1 million paid circulation and almost 8 million readership between its two language editions. Our rates start at $1/word, and can go up according to shoe-leather, research and other factors involved. Features in RD range between 800-2500 words.

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Pennsylvania Heritage magazine introduces readers to Pennsylvania’s rich culture and historic legacy. Articles on such varied topics as architecture, fine and decorative arts, oral history, science, travel, historic sites, industry and technology, natural history, and archaeology. Word length: 2000-3500 words per article. Payments range between $250 and $500.

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PasteMagazine.com focuses on signs of life in music, movies, TV, videogames, comedy, books, design, tech, drink and all things geek. The magazine strives to cover the best music in this eclectic mix, devoting space to independent musicians alongside more established artists. Whatever the subject matter, Paste features a wide range of genres. Paste welcomes unsolicited articles from anyone who believes the piece is appropriate for Paste and its readers. Writers will be paid upon publicationpayment usually takes about three weeks.

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ART PAPERS is a non-profit arts organization dedicated to the examination and development of contemporary art and culture. Features range from 2,400 to 2,700 words, and express fully developed viewpoints about a particular work, artist or trend. Columns in ART PAPERS cover a wide range of topics. These pieces generally are around 1,000 words. Reviews cover solo and group shows of regional, national or international significance. Reviews are 600 words. Payment: $60-$325/article.

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Millennial Youth is an independent, youth-run magazine housed at the Times Union newspaper in Albany, NY. Its goal is to publish the highest quality journalism written by youth, no matter where they live. Millennial Youth pays only for content that is published in print. Payment ranges from $10 to $50 depending on the assignment type and length.

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Little India works with freelance writers to write articles and features on overseas Indians worldwide and stories of interest to this community. Our focus is on overseas and we are especially interested in identity issues affecting overseas Indians. Articles from India should have a strong overseas Indian hook. Features and essays typically range from 500 to 3,500 words. Columns and commentaries run from 800- 1,500 words. The compensation for articles depends on treatment and length, ranging from $50 to $700 for articles that are published in the print edition.

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Listverse.com publishes lists that intrigue and educate, specializing in the bizarre or lesser-known trivia. Every day the site presents three or more new, unique lists. The editor regularly publishes lists submitted by readers and writers. Payment is $100 per list.

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High Times Magazine primarily focuses on marijuana cultivation and counterculture lifestyle. The editors also publish articles on travel, entertainment and psychedelics. This includes a long feature story or a feature-length interview. Word length ranges from 1,500 to 3,000. Interviews should consist of an introduction to the subject followed by a Q&A-style interview. Rates are $500-$1,000/article. Rates for photos are $50-$400/photo.

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GRIT celebrates the intergenerational bonds among those who live on the land with spirit and style a legacy of self-sufficiency, audacious ingenuity and pragmatic problem solving that gave this country its backbone and continues to shape its unique character. GRIT publishes feature-length articles on topics of interest to those living in rural areas, on farms or ranches, or those interested in the rural lifestyle. Articles will be from 800 to 1,500 words. Rates vary depending on experience and expertise. Fees are negotiated on an individual basis.

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Going Coastal magazine offers a strong, yet well-reasoned and compelling observation about the world of music, civic politics, art, culture, environment. Word length: 300-500 words. Pays $25/article.

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Free Times is an alternative weekly. We cover local news, politics, arts and music. Our readers are savvy, well educated, and culturally and politically engaged and our writers must be able to write for such an audience. All stories are on spec, even assigned ones, but we do pay a kill fee if a story does not run through no fault of the writer.

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Because DRUM! Magazine is geared toward serious musicians, rather than just toward music fans, a story lead should immediately and solidly establish a reason for musician/readers to get into the article. Pays: between $50 and $300 for feature articles, depending on length and content. Payment for photos ranges between $25 on up (most cover shoots are assigned months in advance). Short pieces in DRUM! Magazine may run between 300 and 1,000 words in length; a cover story may be as long as 4,000 words.

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Dominion of New York is looking for freelance writers and multi-media producers in cities across America and countries around the world. Our ideal freelancers know a lot about black culture, history and politics. Rate of pay varies per contributor and assignment.

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Creative Loafing/Atlanta seeks coverage of politics, public affairs, social issues, culture, music, movies and the arts. The editors want:” cover stories (1,500-3,000 words) that are well researched, well written, fresh and impossible to ignore. Inside features on the arts, music, movies, travel and news (600-1,200 words). Reviews on the arts, music, restaurants and movies (400-800 words). Opinion or humor columns (500-700 words). Payment varies according the article.

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Cabinet is an art and culture magazine that approaches the world with an expansive definition of both these terms. The editors appreciate the unorthodoxdaring theses, unfashionable stances, minute observations, forgotten cultural practices, and found documents. Word length: up to 3500 words. Cabinet does pay for articles. The amount is determined by the length.

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Briarpatch Magazine publishes writing and artwork on a wide range of topics, including current events, grassroots activism, electoral politics, economic justice, ecology, labour, food security, gender equity, indigenous struggles, international solidarity, and other issues of political importance. Pays up to $150 for research-based articles and investigative reportage.

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Asian Fortune is the only English language newspaper targeting the entire Asian and Pacific American community. The magazine covers everything of interest to APA professionals including local news, politics, health, and entertainment. The magazine is largely freelance written. Fees for articles depend on length, degree of difficulty, and the writers previous experience. Generally, feature articles run between 600 and 1,000 words in published form.

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Reason magazine covers politics, economics, culture, and science from a broad-minded libertarian perspective. The editors look for original analysis and research and do not like simple rehashes of well- worn libertarian positions. Reason runs articles from 850 to 5,000 words in length. Fees vary. Payment is upon acceptance.

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