The Christian Science Monitor, The Home Forum Section
290 Massachusetts Ave.
Boston MA 02115

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Website: https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/The-Home-Forum
Guidelines: https://www.csmonitor.com/About/Contributor-guidelines/Contributor-Guidelines-The-Home-Forum

Editor:
Email address: mailto:homeforum@csmonitor.com

About The Publication:

“The Home Forum is a venue for upbeat first-person essays of 600 to 800 words. We seek a wide range of experiences and voices. The most successful essays are ones of self-discovery, insight, and progress. No medical themes, please, and nothing overtly religious. This is not an OpEd venue, I am not looking for mere travelogues, nostalgia, parenting, or nature essays, but travel, nostalgia, nature, and parenting themes must be in service to broader, more universal ones.” Pays on publication. Publishes ms 3-8 weeks after acceptance. Buys 90 day exclusive rights, nonexclusive thereafter. No reprints. Responds in 3-4 weeks. Guidelines online.

Pays $250/article of 600-800 words.

Current Needs:

“We’re always looking for good essays and diverse voices.” Pays $250/article. Articles range from 600-800 words. Submit complete ms by email. “Attach a Word document or long email to: homeforum@csmonitor.com. Put “Submission” in the “Subject” field in order to receive an autoreply. We cannot follow links. We send acceptances only, and request three weeks to consider submissions. We cannot consider multiple submissions. No need for a cover letter; the essay should speak for itself.”

Pays $250/article of 600-800 words.

Photos/Art:

“We occasionally publish a writer-provided photo, for which we pay an additional $50. They must be high-resolution.”

Hints:

“Heed what is stated above: upbeat, no medical themes. This is not an OpEd venue. I’m looking for essays with something to say, not mere description, nostalgia, travelogues, or biography. An essay is a journey; it has to have movement and change – and, ideally, the ending should “chime” with the beginning in some way. Read the sample essays in the contributor guidelines mentioned above.”

Welcomes New Writers: Yes