Friday, November 8th 2024
HuffPost Personal is a personal stories section in HuffPost (a news and opinion website). They’re accepting pitches for personal essays about the holidays. They’re especially seeking people from diverse backgrounds or with diverse experiences. They’re particularly interested in stories about: “grieving at the holidays / parenting at the holidays / relationships and sex at the holidays / seeing (or refusing to see) family that voted differently than you at the holidays / creating new holiday traditions but really open to anything.” The sweet spot for personal essays is 1,000 to 2,000 words. Rate is around $150. If interested, send your pitches to pitch@huffpost.com. To learn more, refer to this post and this page.
Sunday, October 9th 2022
HuffPost Personal is a
personal stories section in HuffPost (a news and opinion website). They are
accepting first-person essays from people of diverse backgrounds and
experiences. The essays can be on sex, love, identity, parenting, takes on politics,
etc. They pay
$125 per piece. If interested, send your pitches to pitch@huffpost.com.
To read their Tweets, click here, here, and
here.
To read their pitch guide, click here.
Thursday, September 29th 2022
HuffPost Personal is a personal stories section in HuffPost (a news and opinion website). They are accepting pitches by/for/about queer folks for Queer History Month. “Identity/sex/dating/parenting/coming out/love/grief” – they are open to all kinds of stories but pitch an angle (not a topic). Pay is $125. Pitches should be sent to noah.michelson@huffpost.com. To learn more, refer to this Tweet and their pitch guide.
Tuesday, August 30th 2022
HuffPost Personal is a personal stories section in HuffPost (a news and opinion website). They are seeking pitches for Hispanic Heritage Month. They want “first-person essays by members of the community on everything from identity to family to sex/relationships and more.” Pay is $125 per essay. Pitches should be sent to emily.mccombs@huffpost.com. For more information, refer to their deputy editor’s Tweet and their pitch guide.
Wednesday, August 10th 2022
HuffPost Personal is a personal stories section in HuffPost (a news and opinion website). They are seeking pitches for compelling first-person essays from “writers of diverse backgrounds and experiences” for HuffPost Black Voices. Their rates start at $125. Send your pitches to pitch@huffpost.com. To learn more, refer to their Tweet and website.
Tuesday, April 26th 2022
HuffPost
Personal is a personal stories section in HuffPost (a news and opinion
website). Their deputy editor is seeking compelling essay pitches from Asian
and Asian American writers for AAPI Heritage Month. They will accept essays on
any topic as long as they intersect with Asian identity. Their rates
start at $125. If interested, send your pitches to emily.mccombs@huffpost.com. Read
their deputy editor’s Tweet here
and their pitch guide here.
Sunday, October 10th 2021
HuffPost
Personal is a personal stories section in HuffPost (a news and opinion
website). The head of HuffPost Personal is always seeking smart and unique
personal essays. He has tweeted, “From sex to identity to parenting to loss, if
you have one you want to pitch, send it to Noah.Michelson@HuffPost.com. People
with/from diverse backgrounds/experiences especially welcome. I'm always
looking for something to be ‘at stake’ in a piece -- why should the reader care
about it? What can they learn / take away / feel from it/you? Why are you
exactly the right person to tell this story?” Rate is $125. For details, refer
to this Twitter
thread and their pitch guide.
Tuesday, August 3rd 2021
HuffPost
Personal is a personal stories section in HuffPost (a news and opinion
website). They are seeking personal essays from Latinx writers for Latinx
Heritage Month. Personal essays can be “in any subject area as long as they
somehow intersect with the topic of Latinx identity.” Their rates start at
$125. Pitches should be sent to emily.mccombs@huffpost.com.
To learn more, read their deputy editor’s Tweet
and their pitch
guide.
Tuesday, February 9th 2021
HuffPost Personal is a personal stories
section in HuffPost (a news and opinion website). They are seeking compelling
first-person essay pitches. “From sex and love to identity to parenting to
personal takes on political issues,” if you have a story you want to pitch,
send it to pitch@huffpost.com or emily.mccombs@huffpost.com. Rates
start at $125 per piece (800 to 1,500 words). For details, read their deputy
editor’s Tweet
and their pitch
guide.
Wednesday, November 11th 2020
HuffPost Personal is a personal stories
section in HuffPost. Their editorial director is always seeking smart and
unique personal essays. People with/from diverse backgrounds/experiences are
especially welcome to pitch. They will pay $125 per piece (800 to 2,000 words).
Email your pitches to noah.michelson@huffpost.com.
Read their editorial director’s Tweet here
and their pitch guide here. Read
HuffPost Personal’s pieces here.
Sunday, March 29th 2020
HuffPost Personal’s editorial director is
always accepting pitches (coronavirus or otherwise). According to payment
reports, they pay up to $0.08 per word. Send pitches to noah.michelson@huffpost.com. For
details, refer to this Tweet
and this page.