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Washington City Paper Submission Guidelines

Submission Address

Email submissions to editor@washingtoncitypaper.com

Editor: Caroline Jones, interim editor

Submitting Your Work to Washington City Paper

Before submitting to Washington City Paper

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 Washington City Paper by reading a sample issue before submitting.

If you have recently submitted to Washington City Paper or have experience with this market, please submit a comment below. Recent submission response times are always welcome and helpful to other writers.

From the Washington City Paper guidelines:

If you have a story or review to sell, you’ve come to the right place. An infusion of outside talent keeps this paper fresh and interesting.

That said, you should know that most of the freelancers who approach the paper to write a story or a review never actually do so, which makes dealing with freelancers an unpredictable experience for us. If you’re serious about writing for City Paper, produce a piece that is appropriate for our editorial mix.

What is City Paper looking for?

The best way to answer that question is to read our paper and website. You’ll find that we gravitate toward stories about the city and its people, and we prefer to write narratives with a conflict of some sort at the center. We publish a variety of journalistic genres, including profiles, investigative pieces, polemical essays, stories about local institutions, and an occasional first person narrative. We’re not interested in op-ed material, poetry, stories about news conferences or demonstrations, or service journalism about 12 great places to get espresso after midnight.

Submission Guidelines Details for Washington City Paper

Market Type: Magazine

Contact: Caroline Jones (cjones@washingtoncitypaper.com)

Accepts: Interview, Investigative, Profile

Web Address: www.washingtoncitypaper.com

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Updated April 21, 2021

 

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