Common Ties: An Excellent Market for Creative Non-Fiction
May 28th 2007 00:00
Do you have a compelling, true story that you'd like to share with the world? Is your story haunting, wistful, poignant, or gripping? Does it touch people where they live? If so, you might just want to check out Common Ties--a "story blog" which publishes quality non-fiction and pays decently for it.
The folks at Common Ties have this to say about the stories they seek: "Specifically, we look for any personal story that is in some way emotionally compelling--stories that make us shudder, gasp, giggle, or cry." In short, Common Ties publishes creative non-fiction at its best.
To be sure, having a thrilling tale to tell or a sensitive story to share is only the beginning. At Common Ties, craftsmanship is everything. Again, they give a few words of friendly advice to the writer who aspires to seeing his or her work grace the pages of this relatively new but popular online publishing venue: "You may have several powerful personal stories, but they must be written well if they are to be accepted. Quality of writing is of paramount importance."
Common Ties has been publishing compelling personal stories from around the world since October 2006 and runs stories based on a weekly schedule of themes. (They will, however, accept stories on nearly any theme at any time, since themes are recurring and also because there are times when they will decide to publish a particular story, regardless of theme.)
Some upcoming themes and their submission deadlines are: turning points, May 29th; eating disorders, June 5th; fathers and fatherhood, June 12th; moral dilemmas, June 19th; weddings, June 26th; honeymoons, July 3rd; suicide, July 10th. In addition, they have a long list of other themes that are of particular interest to their editors, which can be found on their Submission Guidelines page (at the link found in the opening paragraph of this post.)
Common Ties' average compensation range for an author's work is $100-200 per story, though they refer to this as "only a guideline" and, consequently, they are very open to considering higher or lower compensation levels, depending on such factors as a writer's previous publishing experience and story quality. They are currently experimenting with accepting reprints, though there's a limit to the number of reprints they will accept from a single author in a calendar year. (See Guidelines.)
If you have any interest at all in this type of anecdotal writing and you have a stirring tale or two to tell, you might seriously consider submitting your work to Common Ties. This online publication appears to be one that's open to giving you a fair price for your work.
Good Luck & Happy Writing!
Jeanne
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