Open Call For Nonfiction Articles
We want to publish gothy, death-focused articles AND (separately) fantasy-focused articles most especially about media, entertainment, culture, movies, books, TV shows, music, etc.
You can send us your pitch using the form below, but please read the guidelines first.
Quick Summary Of How to Submit Your Work For Consideration:
- read all the guidelines (y’all, seriously read the guidelines)
- fill out the form below
- please don’t email us your pitch, it will be instantly lost in the chaos of our inbox
- if it has been more than 30 days, you can get in touch via the Contact page.
- payment = $50/piece
What We’re Looking For:
We are looking for articles/reviews/critical essays/collections/listicles etc. in the categories of
- art
- short fiction
- novels
- movies
- music
- fashion
- culture
- entertainment
- science
that fall under the umbrella of
- goth
- death
- funerary
- grief
- loss
- alternative
- otherworldly
- fantasy
Here is an entirely non-exhaustive list of the kind of pieces we are looking to publish:
- new album from a goth/dark/metal/pop/alt/rock band review and write-up
- a new movie coming out that looks REALLY GOOD
- i just read this book and I’ll literally die if I don’t tell everyone about it RIGHT NOW
- i learned about this great death-related thing and you can too!
- this is everything we know about X (upcoming book/movie/album/TV show/season of Blue Eye Samurai/Locked Tomb book)
- literally anything about Fantasy genre works
We are especially interested in receiving nonfiction artic by BIPOC.
Submission Details:
We are looking to acquire original, unpublished essays. If your essay has been published in any way (like on your blog or your Patreon) that has been read by humans before, please do not submit!
We are looking for essays in the range of 1,000 – 2,000 words, but this is very flexible.
We DO NOT accept simultaneous submissions. If what you’re about to send us is or will be sent to other publishers at the same time, please do not send. We have a very fast turn around time, you will not have to wait a long time to hear from us (I promise this time
Payment:
We are paying a flat-fee of $50 for nonfiction pieces.
Rights:
We are buying the right to send your essay to our email subscribers, and to post it on our website Psychopomp.com.
How to Submit:
Use this form to pitch your piece. No limit on how long or short your pitch should be–whatever is needed to communicate the idea and sell me on it.
If you already have a finished piece you want to submit instead of a pitch, you can submit that right here!
Check out the next section after this form for some inspiration/ideas.
The “Pitch Me!” Form
PLEASE NOTE: we’re getting a lot of pitches that are in the category of “creative nonfiction” — exploring something that happened in your life/the life of someone you know or knew told as if it’s a story–this is not what we’re looking for, and it’s going to be an extremely hard sell to the point where you probably shouldn’t try.
we’re so much more interested in exploring and seeing pieces about books, music, culture, fashion, movies, TV series (especially–all of them, modern media vs. reviewing a book that came out in the 70s or something).
Hope that helps!