News & Pitch Calls from Long Now

Sunday, September 10th 2023

Long Now is Accepting Pitches

Long Now is a non-profit organization that fosters long-term thinking. They’re accepting pitches for essays (1,200 to 3,000 words); reported features (1,200 to 3,000 words); interviews (2,000 to 3,000 words); book reviews; fiction; and poetry for Ideas, their living archive of long-term thinking. Rates: features and essays begin at $600; interviews, reviews, and short-form journalism pay $300-$600; science fiction stories pay $100; and poems pay $25. For details, read their post and pitch guide.

Tuesday, May 9th 2023

Long Now is Looking for Pitches

Long Now is a non-profit organization that fosters long-term thinking. They have tweeted, “We're looking for pieces that take a long-term perspective on a wide range of topics, including but not limited to:

- Climate change & the environment

- The preservation of knowledge & institutions

- Biotechnology & artificial intelligence

- Maintenance & infrastructure”

Rates start at $600 for features and range between $300 and $600 for essays, interviews, reviews of books, science journalism, and news articles. Read their Twitter thread here. Learn how to pitch them here.

Friday, December 2nd 2022

Long Now is Accepting Pitches

Long Now is a non-profit organization that fosters long-term thinking. Their pitch guide says, “Our work encourages imagination at the timescale of civilization — the next and last 10,000 years — a timespan we call the long now.” They are looking for stories that explore the ‘long now’ of climate change, the rise and fall of civilizations, biotechnology and artificial intelligence, economics, architecture, and more. They are accepting pitches (on a rolling basis) for essays (800 to 1,800 words), reported features (1,200 to 2,500 words), interviews (1,200 to 2,000 words), book reviews, shorter articles, fiction, and poems for Ideas, their living archive of long-term thinking. Rates begin at $600 for features and range between $300 and $600 for essays, interviews, reviews, science journalism, and news articles. Rates are $100 for science fiction and $25 for poems. To learn more, read their tweet and pitch guide.