Sunday, April 9th 2023
Parents.com helps parents raise happy,
healthy kids. Kindred by Parents is a Black family focused community. Their
senior editor is looking for diverse voices. Rates begin at $200. To read their
senior editor’s tweet, click here. To visit
their websites, click here and here.
Tuesday, January 3rd 2023
Parents.com helps parents raise happy, healthy kids. Their senior editor has tweeted, “Open to essay, lifestyle, entertainment, and feature pitches at Parents.com, especially stuff on family and parenting trends and zeitgeist.” Pay: $150 and up. To read their senior editor’s tweet, click here. To visit their website, click here.
Tuesday, December 27th 2022
Parents.com helps parents
raise happy, healthy kids. In 2023, their editorial director will be “assigning
one article for each week of pregnancy.” “These will be science-backed
explainers with a personal twist: the unique added perspective of YOU as a
parent and/or formerly pregnant person (and writer).” Their editorial director hasn’t
mentioned the rates in her tweet, but according to a tweet by
the editorial director for Kindred by Parents (a Black family focused community),
they pay $250 to $400+. To read their editorial director’s Twitter thread,
click here.
To visit their website, click here.
Sunday, September 18th 2022
Kindred by Parents is a Black family focused community. Their editorial director has tweeted, “We're looking for pitches from Afro Latinx writers... stories that tell a family experience while resisting the white gaze. What stories about your family, families in your community, or your experiences parenting have you been looking to tell? Pitch us at kindred@dotdashmdp.com.” Rate is $250 to $400+. Read their editorial director’s Tweet here. Contact them here.
Sunday, August 14th 2022
Kindred by Parents is a Black family focused community. They
are seeking reported essays and reported features. Their editorial director has
tweeted, “Black writers, if you have stories about kids taking risks, unique
takes on step-parenting that go against the grain, losing friendships after
divorce or kids, thoughts on being ‘friends’ with your kids, hit us up.” Rates
are $250 to $400+. To read their editorial director’s Twitter thread, click here. To
visit their website, click here.
Sunday, June 5th 2022
Kindred by Parents is “a community of support and solutions for the people raising up a generation of Black children with lives full of love and joy.” They are seeking reported essay pitches from Black mothering folks and parents. They are looking to hear from underrepresented voices especially queer/trans, disabled, and Black folks living in low Black population regions. Pay starts at $250. Email your pitches to ambreia.meadows-fernandez@dotdashmdp.com. There is no deadline for submission of pitches. To learn more, refer to this Twitter thread and this page.
Tuesday, May 10th 2022
Parents.com
helps parents raise happy, healthy kids. They are seeking pitches for Kindred
by Parents.com. Kindred focuses on “the Black family, not just parenting and
parents.” They are seeking “original reporting, fresh ideas, and Blackity Black
perspectives.” They don’t want non-reported straight essays, they only want “essays
that take a personal narrative and use it to put a lens on a wider issue or
topic.” They pay around $250 for reported essays, entertainment roundups, and how-tos/explainers/guides
and $400 for reported features. Send your pitches to kelly.glass@dotdashmdp.com. To
learn more, refer to their executive editor’s Twitter
thread and their website.
Sunday, February 13th 2022
Parents
Magazine helps parents raise happy, healthy kids. Their executive editor is
looking for pitches from Black fathers about their experiences with
co-parenting and custody agreements. Rate is $250 to $350. Pitches should be
sent to kindred@meredith.com. Read
their executive editor’s Twitter thread here and
their writer’s guidelines here.
Tuesday, February 8th 2022
Parents.com
helps parents raise happy, healthy kids. They are seeking freelance news
writers to cover “daily news, new studies, entertainment news, etc. through a
parenting lens.” They pay $75 and up for quick-turnaround assignments. If
interested, contact melissa.bykofsky2@meredith.com.
To learn more, refer to this Tweet and
their writer’s
guidelines.
Tuesday, December 7th 2021
Parents
Magazine (Parents.com) helps parents raise happy, healthy kids. They are launching
a new subbrand which will focus on Black families. They are looking for pitches
for it. They want “pitches on Black history and the power of Black families
that resist the white gaze.” Their rates start at $250. If interested, contact kelly.glass@meredith.com. To learn
more, refer to this Twitter thread.
To read Parents Magazine’s writer’s guidelines, refer to this page.
Friday, November 26th 2021
The senior editor of Parents.com recently Tweeted, “we’re looking for pitches from
black writers! we want your reported stories on everything and (almost)
anything at the intersection of blackness and parenting. please, dm me for more
details.” Details here.
(Also see the Tweet about pitch calls for The Financial Costs of Childcare for Parents
magazine; pay is $200-300 for 800+ words.)
Sunday, September 19th 2021
Parents
Magazine (Parents.com) helps parents raise
happy, healthy kids. Their deputy editor is looking for pitches on the topic of
single parent finances. “How-tos, personal essays, all welcome, the more
specific/unique the better.” Rate is $200 to $300 for 800+ words. Pitches
should be sent to aedelman@meredith.com.
Read their deputy editor’s Tweet here and
their writer’s guidelines here.
Sunday, April 25th 2021
Parents Magazine’s contributing editor
is looking for pitches on “LGBTQIA+ topics told by queer people, parents, and
teens.” “It's a reported guide for parents looking to support their LGBTQIA+
kids, themselves, & the queer community.” Pay is $300 to $500. Pitches
should be sent to amber.leventry@gmail.com.
Read their contributing editor’s Tweet here
and their writer’s guidelines here.