News & Pitch Calls from Orion Magazine

Tuesday, July 29th 2025

Orion Magazine will be Accepting Nonfiction Story Pitches

Orion Magazine is an environmental magazine that publishes quarterly. From August 1 to 15, they will be accepting “nonfiction story pitches for their Spring 2026 Labor Issue: Working the Land (intersection between labor and the more-than-human world—animal rights, working creatures, and models of collectivity in nature).” According to this post, they pay $1,000 per piece. For more information, refer to this post and their general submission guidelines.

Deadline: August 15th, 2025

Sunday, July 28th 2024

Orion Magazine is Seeking Pitches about Mushrooms

Orion Magazine is an environmental magazine. They publish quarterly. They’re currently seeking pitches for nonfiction stories for their upcoming issue about mushrooms. They want stories about important mushrooms in history. They can pay $1,000 for this piece. Details here and here.

Deadline: July 30th, 2024

Tuesday, July 25th 2023

Orion Magazine is Accepting Pitches for the Upcoming Issue on Floods

Orion Magazine is an environmental magazine. They publish quarterly. They’re currently looking for pitches for their upcoming issue on floods. They’re specifically seeking essays and reporting focused on animals and floods. The length of the stories should be 3,000-4,000 words. Their rates start at $500 for print essays. To learn more, read their tweet and submission guidelines.   

Deadline: July 31st, 2023

Wednesday, July 13th 2022

Orion Magazine is Accepting Pitches on The Ecology of Fairy Tales

Orion Magazine is a quarterly magazine committed to producing stories that “meet the collective need for emotional, spiritual, and social connections with nature and each other.” They are accepting feature-length story pitches about “the environmental origins and legacies of myths, folktales, and trickster tales” for their next summer’s issue which will explore “the ecology of fairy tales.” They are only accepting fiction and nonfiction. Their rates start at $500 for the shortest print pieces and increase from there. For details, refer to their Tweet and submission guidelines.

Deadline: July 15th, 2022