News & Pitch Calls from Asterisk

Saturday, September 13th 2025

Asterisk is Seeking Pitches for Issue 13

Asterisk is a quarterly magazine that covers “science, emerging technologies, economics, politics, culture, global health, threats to human development and flourishing.” They’re looking for pitches for their next issue: “Issue 13 Asterisk is doing Hard Science. Science, meta-science, public epistemics. Biology, energy, the environment, drugs, clinical trials. CRISPR, cancer, consciousness. How do we best fund science? How do we best communicate science? How do we do science better? How do we do science faster?” Pay is $2,000 for pieces of 3,000 to 4,000 words. Drafts are due in October. If interested, send your pitches to submissions@asteriskmag.com. To read their post, click here. To learn more about them, click here.

Monday, June 24th 2024

Asterisk is Accepting Pitches for Issue 08: Communities

Asterisk is a quarterly magazine that covers “science, emerging technologies, economics, politics, culture, global health, threats to human development and flourishing.” They’re accepting pitches for Issue 08: Communities. They pay $2,000 per story up to 4,000 words. If interested, email your pitches (by the end of this week) to submissions@asteriskmag.com. To read their post, click here. To learn more about them, click here.