Gothamist Seeks Long-Form Nonfiction Piece

Posted on June 25, 2011

Gothamist, a blog covering New York City, is seeking long-form nonfiction. By long-form they mean nonfiction pieces of 5,000 to 15,000 words.

Here are the details:

How it will work: We will pay one journalist $5,000 to write a long-form non-fiction piece in the 5,000 to 15,000 word range. Subject: Something relevant to our audience of over one million 20-36 year-old readers in New York, timely but with a shelf-life longer than a week. We're open to any topic, although we would like something that could be well-illustrated with photos or infographics.

The deadline for proposals is July 1st. The blog will select a proposal by July 8th. You can find more details, including the submission email address, on Gothamist.

Gothamist also talks about handling the advertising for the content after publishing it through Amazon, Apple and other ebook services.

We'll cover the editing and production and then publish the piece to the various eBook singles platforms (Kindle, Apple, etc.) with a reasonable price: $1 to $3. Then we'll handle advertising the piece on our NYC site. If this experiment makes a profit, we'll share them with the writer once we've recouped our initial costs. Will this work? We're not sure—but we want to find out.

There has been a movement towards longer content as of late. Blog posts tend to be much shorter than stories in news magazines.