Brothels on a farm, airports designed like footballs, a visit to a kimchi museum, a midnight party with extras on a film set in Brazil — that’s the kind of stuff that will be online soon on Meander Magazine.
The new e-zine is set to launch in July, and is looking for stories on all the unusual encounters you have been dying to share but didn’t know where to share them!
Why? you may ask…
“travel journalism doesn’t focus enough on the idiosyncrasies of the world…” says the team at Meander.
Some categories of stories they are looking for:
– Features on striking and unexpected experiences while traveling.
– Reports on paranormal places
– Weird airport experiences/places
– Personal essays about strange or interesting experiences with animals while traveling
– Travel photo essays
– Road trip stories
Full writers guidelines can be found here.
To make it into the online launch issue, all pitches must be submitted by June 20 to editors@meandermag.com. Articles must be sent as attachments, double spaced with word count included. If you have photos, send them as high-res attachments.
So let the freaky stuff come out of the closet, now will it not only be read, but maybe even published!
Why is it that small start-up publications have enough money to pay for developers and designers, but never enough to pay for people to write for them?
And why is that mostly true for start-up travel magazines whose content is usually the most expensive for a writer to produce?
Why are there so many writers who find it acceptable?
Kate, some good questions there. I suppose it stems from the deep desire to get published. Until you don’t have clips, you target start-up publications as they are easier to break into, and don’t worry about pay.
It’s a shame that you don’t get a monetary reward in the beginning, but at least you get noteworthy clips.
But is a small, start-up web zine that no one’s ever heard of considered a “noteworthy clip?”