50 calls for journalism/writing pitches (February 27, 2023)
Recently we took a trip to Hong Kong's Disneyland. There were bubbles, and balloons, and a hotel garden maze, and a roller-coaster (the kids cried) and a haunted house (the kids cried some more) and best of all, live shows, which the kids adored. Giant animals stood like sentinels around the floor-level stage of the Lion King show, occasionally raising a trunk, or fluttering an ear. "Are they real?" the kids asked, frequently. "I think they're real! They're moving, you can see it's trunk moving!" I love this childhood ability to blur reality and fiction, considered a curse in adults (when you get called deluded or psychotic) but charming and not a little envy-inducing in kids. I rarely pop this imaginative bubble, but go along for the ride. "Yes it does look real doesn't it - how do you think they got it in here? I hope he doesn't steal my popcorn." And then the lights come up and the man steps out of the costume and the kids look at me like I'm an idiot.
Calls for pitches below
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- Rates start at $500
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- Rate is $100 to $250