Chicago's News and Arts Weekly
Stories and queries should be emailed to the editors at pitch@newcity.com
Editor: Brian Hieggelke, editor
|
|
Before submitting to Newcity
The Market List recommends you verify the market is active and accepting submissions before sending your manuscript via regular mail. You may verify a market status by either visiting their website, calling their listed phone number, or confirming via regular mail that the market is still active before sending them your work. To be sure your submission is appropriate for this market, we recommend you familiarize yourself with Newcity by reading a sample issue before submitting. |
If you have recently submitted to Newcity or have experience with this market, please submit a comment below. Recent submission response times are always welcome and helpful to other writers.
We encourage writers to submit unsolicited story ideas either in the form of a query letter or by emailing a manuscript. Do not send items through the postal system, and please please don’t call. Email. Please don’t send along a general resume and clips looking for assignments; that’s not how we work.
Read us and you can tell what kind of stories we like. We hesitate to say that a particular topic is or is not appropriate for Newcity, but we are willing to describe a few of the attributes of our stories. In general we are looking for timely, magazine-style stories about Chicago, about its culture both high and low, or about almost any topic of interest to the urban dweller. We like stories about politics, the arts and virtually all aspects of social affairs and social policy. We love a sense of humor; we want our readers to have fun with us. We rarely publish stories about international or national affairs.
We want scoops, but we don’t want them written in the style of a daily newspaper or a lifestyle web site that breathlessly regurgitates PR copy. We want voice, criticism and perspective, but we don’t want opinion. While we prefer articles about things no one else has addressed, we also look for stories about things everyone else has covered, as long as we get it in a singular style or from an unconventional perspective. When others use a microscope, we prefer a telescope; and vice versa.
Market Type: Magazine
Contact: Brian Hieggelke, editor
Accepts: Essays, General , Interviews, Personal Experience, Profiles, Travel
Web Address: www.newcitychicago.com
Click Here for Complete Submission Guidelines
Updated December 11, 2020
