We're accepting personal essay drafts and pitches for reported personal essays and reading lists. We're looking for pieces on unexpected topics and unique angles. Submissions never close! More on submissions and rates in 🧵
CALL FOR PITCHES: Longreads wants your words! We take essay submissions, feature pitches, reading list ideas, and other queries, and we pay competitive rates for accepted work. Here’s a 🧵 of what the editors are looking for:
"I was late and slow. A slow learner. But not as late as her. I love to tell her story because people—particularly women—need to hear that you can start late." Ursula K. Le Guin
"I believe that gifted editors are rarer than talented reporters. If you have the knack for it, I just wanna say: go for it. I really want to give you a nudge of encouragement in that direction. It’s a wonderful job and journalism needs you."
@iraglass
"It is hard to believe something is possible if you have never seen it happen before. Now we’ve seen it happen. Now we know." Twelve
#longreads
on
@Ocasio2018
, compiled by
@danielleiat
:
"Even if you think Anne Boleyn was a king-seducing homewrecker extraordinaire, it’s impossible not to appreciate the sheer audacity of it all."
@anne_theriault
's
#QueensOfInfamy
series is back!
"Kpop has been my candy-colored distraction from the angst of feeling trapped, but it has also, in the person of Mino, rather unexpectedly led me to a glimmer of an answer."
@wendyqgan
#FineLines
(Illustration by
@HulloJackie
)
"
@SteveCarell
held up taping of The Office because he refused to be a scab. Each extra moment of discomfort he conveyed to the network, each bit of pay he lost, meant more leverage afforded to the striker."
@SorayaRoberts
We're accepting drafts and pitches for reported and personal essays at hello
@longreads
.com. More information on rates and what we're looking for in 🧵
"In 2016,
@Oxfam
's report showed that the wealthiest 62 individuals owned the same amount as the bottom half of the world’s population. This year, that number had dropped to 42: 3.5 dozen people with as much stuff as 3.5 billion."
@OliverBullough
@guardian
Happy
#PrimeDay
! "Amazon changed the amount of time workers had to stow an item from six minutes to four minutes and 12 seconds. 'They make it like the Hunger Games,' a former carpenter said. 'That’s what we actually call it.'"
@AlanaSemuels
@TheAtlantic
We're accepting personal essay drafts and pitches for reported personal essays and reading lists. We're looking for pieces on unexpected topics and unique angles. More on submissions and rates in 🧵
"I love the sheer weirdness of the kitchen life: the dreamers, the crackpots, the refugees, and the sociopaths... the noise and clatter, the hiss and spray, the flames, the smoke, and the steam." Mourning the loss of Anthony Bourdain.
The science of medicine is based on male bodies, but researchers are beginning to realize how vastly the symptoms of disease differ between the sexes — and how much danger women are in.
@CCriadoPerez
@ABRAMSbooks
"When women come across as ambitious, as self-serving, or simply as successful, whatever their cause or cohort, they are considered wrongdoers by default."
@PennyRed
"The internet does not hate women. The internet doesn’t hate anyone, because the internet lacks the capacity to hold any opinion whatsoever. People hate women, and the internet allows them to do it faster, harder, and with impunity."
@PennyRed
"What I learned from watching white kids who were set up to succeed while Black kids were set up to fail, even in matters of intimacy, was that sexual self-regulation was critical to my success."
@ProfessorCrunk
@StMartinsPress
“The reporter Rachel McAdams portrayed in Spotlight,
@BostonGlobe
's
@SachaPfeiffer
, who's still a member of the
@GlobeSpotlight
team, did the hardest interviews, the scariest door-knocking—yet she was a marginal character compared to Ruffalo’s loner hero.”
"Henry’s tracheotomy tube prevents him from speaking, so I haven’t heard him make a peep for over a year. My wife recently walked in on me crying and listening to recordings of him babbling, from before his diagnosis and surgery."
@robdelaney
@Medium
"The evidence that women are being let down by the medical establishment is overwhelming... The bodies, symptoms and diseases that affect half the world’s population are being dismissed, disbelieved and ignored."
@CCriadoPerez
@ABRAMSbooks
"I’d gone from Catholic altar girl to Dawkins atheist. Years of family problems had led me to think that a god could not really exist. A year of AP Biology and considering going pre-med anchored my mind in science."
@sweetadelinevt
"Only when we consider the possibility that male sexuality might not be inherently violent and exploitative can we ask why so much of it is."
@PennyRed
"Believing in racial equality in the abstract and supporting policies that would make it a reality are two different things. Most white Americans have long professed the former, and pointedly declined to do the latter."
@AdamSerwer
@TheAtlantic
#longreads
"I don’t hate men. I hate how brittle and fragile modern masculinity is; how it reacts to any perceived threat by lashing out and shutting down."
@PennyRed
"I love the sheer weirdness of the kitchen life: the dreamers, the crackpots, the refugees, and the sociopaths... the noise and clatter, the hiss and spray, the flames, the smoke, and the steam." —Anthony Bourdain
"Igarashi is at his most winning when he talks about how much his parents did for him and what an entitled little peanut he was along the way"
@outsidemagazine
#longreads
"The richest are the least likely to have their money come from hard labor — yet there’s no moral panic over whether they’re coddled or lacking in self reliance. Instead, government benefits help the rich protect and grow idle wealth."
@brycecovert