Sierra Magazine
Address:85 Second Street, 2nd Floor
San Francisco, CA 94105-3441
USA
Contact: Robert Schildgen, Managing Editor.
Email Address:
Website: http://www.sierraclub.org/
Phone: (415)977-5656
Fax: (415)977-5794
Description of Publication:
50% freelance. The national magazine of the Sierra Club, covering environmental issues, adventure travel with an environmental theme, and other topics relating to the natural world and its inhabitants. Welcomes new writers. Circ. 720K. Bimonthly. Pays on acceptance. Publishes ms 5 months after acceptance. Buys 1st N.A. and electronic rights. Accepts reprints. Responds 6 weeks. Sample $3.50 by mail with SASE. Subscription $15; $30 outside the U.S. Guidelines online at http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/guidelines/submissions.asp or by mail with SASE to above address.
Current Needs: We need solid, well-written, well-researched features on all environmental topics, e.g., protecting public land, protecting the health of people and ecosystems, pollution, energy, endangered species, food, domestic ecology, visits to natural sites, etc. We highly recommend that all writers take a close look at back issues to get an idea of what we cover and how we do it. Submit query with clips by mail with SASE.
welcomes new writers
Pay: Pays flat fee of $50-$800 for 50-800 words with photography. Pays approx. $1 per word plus expenses for feature-length work.
Hints:
Photos/Art: Slides preferred. Pays $25-$100. Photographers guidelines online at http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/guidelines/photographers.asp
