News & Pitch Calls from SAPIENS

Friday, February 25th 2022

SAPIENS is Open for Submissions from Anthropologists

SAPIENS is a digital magazine committed to popularizing anthropology to a wider audience. They are open for submissions from anthropologists. They publish essays (1,000 to 2,000 words), op-eds (600 to 1,000 words), poetry, debates (400 to 600 words), reviews (400 to 1,500 words), snapshots (400 to 1,200 words), and photo essays. They pay an honorarium of $250 per piece. To learn more, refer to their Tweet, their pitch guide, and this page.

Saturday, May 22nd 2021

SAPIENS is Looking for Pitches by Indigenous Journalists

SAPIENS is a digital magazine committed to popularizing anthropology to a wider audience. They are looking for “pitches by journalist members of NAJA for narrative-driven features and news stories building on recent research findings in anthropology.” Specifically, this August they “aim to honor the International Day of the World’s Indigenous Peoples for at least one week by commissioning several stories that focus on the work of Indigenous anthropologists and that are written exclusively by contributors who identify as members of Indigenous communities.” They pay $1.00/word. They pay frequent feature contributors $1.10/word upon their third feature assignment and $1.25/word upon their sixth feature assignment. To learn more, refer to their Tweet and this page. To read their journalist contributor’s guide, refer to this page.

Deadline: May 28th, 2021