News & Pitch Calls from Dame

Saturday, February 24th 2024

DAME Magazine is Accepting Feature/Op-ed Pitches

DAME Magazine offers reporting and analysis on politics, policy, science, culture, and more. They’re accepting feature/op-ed pitches. They’re seeking “pieces on the care economy, elder care, women's health, and climate stories that have intersections with other issues.” Rate is $350 to $750 for reported stories. For more information, refer to their post and this page.

Sunday, January 29th 2023

DAME Magazine is Always Looking for Pitches

DAME Magazine offers reporting and analysis on politics, policy, science, culture, and more. They’re always looking for pitches. Generally, they'll look at anything - but they're “always interested in features that explore systems, economic topics, climate solutions, social science, culture...” Rate: $350 to $750 for reported stories. To learn more, refer to their tweet and pitch guidelines.

Sunday, May 1st 2022

DAME Magazine is Accepting Pitches

DAME Magazine offers reporting and analysis on politics, policy, science, culture, and more. Their founder has tweeted, “If anyone laid off is looking to freelance write, we're definitely accepting pitches for May and June (and beyond).” Their stories are unexpected, emotional, straightforward, illuminating, and human-centric. They pay $350 to $750 for reported stories. Read their founder’s Twitter thread here and their pitch guide here.

Friday, November 26th 2021

DAME Magazine’s ‘Newcomer Corner’ will open for pitches in January


DAME Magazine has a ‘Newcomer Corner’ – their guidelines say, “DAME’s ‘Newcomer Corner’ provides a designated platform for writers with no prior professional bylines to publish reported features, interviews and narrative essays. The goal of Newcomer Corner is to introduce new writers to the DAME audience, and help foster emerging talent through one-on-one training and an interactive and collaborative editing process.  

As with all content published on DAME, we’re looking for pieces on politics, reproductive rights, policy, civil rights, race, sex, class, gender, LGBTQ, disability, class, media, law, cultural trends, health, science and more.” They have specific reading periods for pitches for this section, from 1 January to 15 February 2022; details here for the Newcomer Corner, and rates for this section are $150-300. For general pitches, details are here, and pay is $150-500.





Deadline: February 15th, 2022

Sunday, August 29th 2021

DAME Magazine is Looking for Pitches

DAME Magazine offers reporting and analysis on politics, policy, science, culture, and more. They are seeking “human-centric, solutions-based stories, that feature real people addressing problems in their community + the context of how their narrative connects to the big issues we collectively face.” They’d “love to be publishing more on climate, disability rights, economy/poverty, infrastructure, off-beat, weird or quirky narratives that would surprise readers.” They are also actively seeking more media criticism features. They typically pay $150 for essays and $300 to $500 for reported features. For more information, refer to their Twitter thread, submission guidelines, and pitch form.

Sunday, August 15th 2021

DAME Magazine is Seeking Human-Centric, Solutions-Based Stories

DAME Magazine offers reporting and analysis on politics, policy, science, culture, and more. They are looking for feature pitches. Their editor has tweeted, “We're looking for human-centric, solutions-based stories, meaning we want pitches that feature real people addressing problems in their community + the context of how their narrative connects to the big issues we collectively face i.e. do pitch a story about a coastal community and its creative solution to extreme weather; don't pitch an expert-heavy analysis of rising sea levels that leaves readers feeling helpless. Some topics we don't get many pitches on but would like to publish: climate, disability rights, economy/poverty, infrastructure, off-beat, weird or quirky narratives that would surprise readers.” Rate is $300 to $500 per feature. If interested, send your pitches to clare@damemagazine.com or submit them here. To learn more, refer to their editor’s Twitter thread.

Tuesday, March 16th 2021

DAME Magazine is Accepting Pitches

DAME Magazine offers reporting and analysis on politics, policy, science, culture, and more. They have tweeted, “For anyone recently laid off, we're accepting pitches across a host of topics - economy, media, social justice, health & science, and more.” They generally pay $150 for essays and $300 to $400 for reported features. For more information, read their Tweet and submission guidelines.

Tuesday, January 5th 2021

DAME Magazine is Seeking Pitches

DAME Magazine offers reporting and analysis on politics, policy, science, culture, and more. They are seeking “pitches on economic issues, social science, health, cultural trends, and media criticism.” They pay $200 for essays and $300 to $400 for reported features. Pitches should be sent to editorial@damemagazine.com. For details, refer to their Tweet and submission guidelines.