Thank you for asking us to consider your pitch! 

Tagg Magazine is an online publication founded on the belief that all queer women deserve to see themselves reflected in queer media. We celebrate the diversity of the sapphic community and feature writing across various gender identities, races, ethnicities, sexual orientations, socioeconomic classes, physical abilities, mental abilities, and life experiences. 

We are a small digital publication and aim to publish short-form content of 1200 words or less about three times per week. We value the contributions of freelancers (like you) to help us keep Tagg Magazine as diverse and inclusive as possible.

What makes a good pitch?

Be clear and thorough in explaining what your piece will cover and the format it will take (article, interview, list, etc.). Please check our website first to see if we’ve already covered the topic before pitching.

Please send us links to three of your most relevant writing samples with your pitch if you haven’t written for Tagg before. If you don’t have three writing samples, I will probably ask you to submit a completed draft of your piece instead of a pitch for us to consider.

If you’re looking for a guide to pitching, look here.

What type of stories are we looking for?

What we’re looking for can be broken down into two categories: what performs well and what we need more of. Here’s a bit more insight on both:

Our readers love:

• Dating & relationship advice Example 1, Example 2
• Profiles of cool queer and trans women doing amazing things Example 1, Example 2
• Fashion-related content (like masc women’s brands) Example 1, Example 2
• Personal essays, opinion pieces, listicles Example 1, Example 2
• Queer and trans women’s celebrity news Example 1, Example 2
• TikTok trends Example 1, Example 2
• Sex-related content (like the best new vibrators) Example 1, Example 2
• Stories, profiles, and tidbits from queer women’s history Example 1, Example 2
• Queer women’s TV and movies news, reviews, recaps, round-ups, lists Example 1, Example 2
• Queer & trans women’s community politics (like biphobia issues) Example 1, Example 2
• The experiences, stories, and companies of intersectional queer and trans women (women of color, disabled women, fat women, etc.) Example 1, Example 2

We’d love to commission more:

• Pitches from trans women
• Pitches from BIPOC women
• Pitches addressing neurodivergence
• Pitches addressing physical disabilities
• Pitches about mental health
  
• Pitches about various identities within in the sapphic community (stud, butch, femme, genderqueer sapphic, etc.)
• Pitches about nonmonogamous relationships and dating (polyamory, ethical nonmonogamy, etc.)
• Holiday/timely content (Lesbian Visibility Week, Kwanzaa, Ramadan, Pride, etc.)
• Content about cannabis (use, purchase, consumption, queer-owned brands, etc.)
• Celebrity interviews (if you’ve got a connection, let us know!)
  

What are our rates?

Our pieces are about 350-1000 words long and we pay $75-175 per piece.

Where can you send your pitch?

Please email pitches to our Editor-in-Chief, Sondra Rose Marie, at smorris@taggmagazine.com. The subject should start with the word PITCH (for example — PITCH: How to find your dream vibrator or PITCH: How my Catholicism informed my queerness). You’ll hear back within 10-14 days.