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How to Pitch: Orion

Freelancers can frequent this bimonthly with pitches geared toward an audience of "cultural creators"

December 15, 2005

[EDITOR'S NOTE: We are currently updating this article with the cooperation of the publication's editors. In the meantime, please use these pitching guidelines with caution as some information listed may be outdated.]

Circulation: 20,000
Frequency: Bimonthly
Special issues: None

Background: "People tend to look at Orion and say, 'Oh, you're an environmental magazine,'" says executive editor Harlan Clifford. But the bimonthly as it exists today, published by The Orion Society and the Myrin Institute, clearly lacks such one-dimensionality.

Started in the early 1980s as a quarterly publication largely intended to review nature writing books, the magazine "really had ...

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