News & Pitch Calls from In These Times

Tuesday, November 12th 2024

In These Times is Looking for Pieces Exploring the Recent Election News

In These Times is a progressive magazine and website committed to covering and analyzing popular movements for economic, environmental, social, gender, and racial justice. They’re seeking culture pitches and draft submissions exploring the recent election news: “How are we moving forward and coming together to protect the vulnerable and create political possibility in a very dire and dark near-future?” They’re particularly excited to uplift immigrant, LGBTQ, Palestinian, Congolese, Sudanese, SWANA, and other POC voices. Rates are $375 for short dispatches and op-eds, and $0.50 to $1.00 per word for other articles. If interested, email submissions@inthesetimes.com. To read their post, click here. To read their recent culture stories, click here.

Sunday, February 4th 2024

In These Times is Looking for Culture Pitches

In These Times is a progressive magazine and website committed to covering and analyzing popular movements for economic, environmental, social, gender, and racial justice. They’re looking for culture pitches. They particularly want Palestinian, Congolese, Sudanese, immigrant, BIPOC, and trans writers to pitch them. Rates are $375 for short dispatches and op-eds, and $0.50 to $1.00 per word for other articles. If interested, send your pitches to submissions@inthesetimes.com. To learn more, refer to this post and this page.

Saturday, January 13th 2024

In These Times is Seeking Culture Pitches and Drafts

In These Times is a progressive magazine and website committed to covering and analyzing popular movements for economic, environmental, social, gender, and racial justice. They’re seeking culture pitches and draft submissions that “explore race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, sexuality, class, disabilities, capitalism and/or climate, etc. and its impact on our lives.” They consider essays, personal essays, short stories, photo essays, poetry, graphic literature, comics, and Q&As. They consider contributions from writers of all backgrounds, and are especially excited to promote Palestinian, Congolese, Sudanese, immigrant, BIPOC, and trans voices. Rates: short dispatches and op-eds pay $375 while other articles pay $0.50-$1.00 per word. Poetry, comics, and photo essays pay between $100 and $900. To read their post, click here. To read their past culture stories, click here.

Friday, May 12th 2023

In These Times is Seeking Pitches that Explore Socialist Movements

In These Times is a progressive magazine and website committed to covering and analyzing popular movements for economic, environmental, social, gender, and racial justice. They’re devoting their August issue entirely to socialism and are open for pitches that “explore socialist movements in the U.S. and abroad.” This open call includes “culture pitches, such as essays, short stories, photo essays, poetry, and graphic literature that explores and interrogates the ways race, gender, sexuality, class, disabilities, and/or climate intersects with socialism.” For short dispatches and op-eds, they pay $375. For other articles, they pay $0.50-$1.00/word. If interested, send your pitches to submissions@inthesetimes.com. For more information, refer to their Twitter thread and submissions page.

Deadline: May 21st, 2023

Sunday, February 26th 2023

In These Times is Looking for Dispatches on Rural and/or Environmental Issues

In These Times is a progressive magazine and website committed to covering and analyzing popular movements for economic, environmental, social, gender, and racial justice. They are seeking dispatches (750 to 850-word first or third person essays) related to rural and/or environmental issues. Rate is around $375. If interested, email your pitches to submissions@inthesetimes.com. For more information, refer to their Twitter thread and submissions page.

Tuesday, November 22nd 2022

In These Times is Looking for a Reporter to Write about Labor, Higher Ed, etc.

In These Times is a progressive magazine and website committed to covering and analyzing popular movements for economic, environmental, social, gender, and racial justice. They are looking for a current-or-future reporter to write about labor, higher education, union democracy, left internationalism, and more. Rates are $300-$500. If interested, send your pitches or just let them know you are open for assignments at aparna@inthesetimes.com. To learn more, refer to their story editor’s Twitter thread and their submission guidelines.