Off Assignment looking for pitches

Rates up to $500 per article

Check out this freelance writing opportunity I found:

Aube here, editor in chief at Off Assignment. When I describe what kind of magazine OA is, I usually start with: “It’s a place for essays about place–and personal journeys, though it’s not a travel magazine.” The journeys can be near and far, and fundamentally are about flipsides and detours, the unexpected or unexamined, emotional seams split open or crevasses of memory revealed. We want stories that dive into the nuances.

Please help spread the word: We are currently accepting submissions to our "Goodbye to That Place," "Letter to a Stranger," "No Equivalent," "Under the Influence," "What I Didn't Say," and "Witching Hour" columns.

RATES:

$500 for all long-form essays and $100 for short-form “Witching Hour” essays.

COLUMNS:

“Goodbye to That Place”—a narrative farewell to places that hold significance to our lives. Our inaugural essay was penned by Leslie Jamison, and is titled “Goodbye to the Childhood Home Lost in the Palisades Fire.”

“Letter to a Stranger,” addressed to a stranger who haunts you still (examples: Jamil Jan Kochai to an Afghan man who asked about the sun and Lauren Groff to a Sicilian she believed was good);

“No Equivalent,” about a word, phrase, or concept that evades translation (examples: Lucy Schiller on the French word “harmas” and Lily Kelting, on the Marathi “yaar”);

“Under the Influence,” on the alchemy between art and place (examples: Aya Chalabee on reading Yōko Ogawa in Cairo and Jamie Tews on reading Raymond Carver in Wilmington),

“Witching Hour,” ambient place portraits set to a specific time (examples: Elizabeth Endicott on 2:30am in Antarctica and Hannah Walhout on dusk in the Rub’ Al Khali,)

“What I Didn’t Say,” about the story-behind-the-story of an assignment or reportage that didn’t make it to the printed column (examples: Raksha Vasudevan, on shifting racial identities in Uganda and Ted Conover, on visiting Guantánamo Bay.

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