The Crafty Writer

Magazines

The following magazines are currently looking for freelance work:

• Garden Answers - email geoff.stebbings@emap.com to request contributors’ guidelines.
• Psychologies - check out the website for contributors’ guidelines. As well as psychology and emotional health articles, they are looking for travel features that include an element of self-discovery. You can also submit a 500-word ‘your story’ for the online magazine, although there won’t be any payment.
• Horse magazine are looking for features - Send a short brief of 150 words in bullet points to karen_spinner@ipcmedia.com. They also pay a tip-off fee for ‘horsey gossip’.
• Plenty - a ‘green’ magazine looking for articles on lifestyle topics including food, travel, fashion and technology. Click on the website for contributors’ guidelines. They are looking for print articles (1500 - 3000 words) or web articles (500 words).

True-life story anthologies

• God Allows U-Turns series is looking for inspirational true-story submissions for its next anthology. Deadline is 31 December; check out their website for contributors’ guidelines. Stories need to be from 500 to 1200 words.

Parenting guides

• Need2Know, an imprint of Forward Press, is looking for proposals for books on a parent’s guide to teenage obesity and another on behavioural difficulties. Check out the website for further details.

I will be looking at how to put a book / magazine proposal together in Week 7 (14 November) of my non-fiction writing course. But if you want to get a head start, request contributors’ guidelines for whichever one interests you and get some ideas together in advance.