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The Boston Globe Magazine is published weekly inside The Boston Sunday Globe.

LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

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magazine@globe.com, or write to:

The Boston Globe Magazine
PO Box 55819
Boston, MA  02205-5819

Letters for publication should include the writer's name, address, and daytime phone number. Short letters are preferred, and all are subject to editing for length and clarity.

RECENT ISSUES

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The last five issues of the Magazine are available here. To find older articles, search the Globe archives (a small fee is required to view the full text of any article).

WRITERS' GUIDELINES

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The Boston Globe Magazine is published weekly within the Sunday edition of The Boston Globe newspaper. The magazine focuses on Greater Boston and New England.

We look for elegant, descriptive, and thoughtful writing, along with thorough reporting, from experienced magazine journalists. We desire stories that have potential for strong art and design components. Stories should have points of view and a clear voice. We look for stories that have not been widely covered in the Globe or other local publications, or stories that provide a surprising take on a well-known subject.

The magazine has a number of special issues throughout the year. For a copy of the editorial calendar, click here.

The best places for new writers to start with the magazine are the Perspective column, an opinionated 675-word essay on a timely local news topic, and Coupling, a 750-word relationship column that is driven by stories of dating, married life, divorce, and more. The following are not open to freelance submissions: Pierced, Tales From the City, On the Block, Cooking, The Clothes We Wear, Miss Conduct.

The Globe Magazine does not publish poetry or fiction.

Freelance writers are required to sign the Globe’s freelance license agreement. We pay on publication and cover reasonable expenses, which must be approved by an editor beforehand. Fees vary depending on the story length and the column for which the piece will be used. Stories are assigned weeks or months in advance of publication. Writers must check their stories for accuracy before submitting. All stories will be rigorously fact-checked by the magazine staff, and writers of feature-length pieces are required to submit fact-checking materials, from notes to referenced articles to tapes.

The author holds the article’s copyright, but the magazine retains the right to redistribute the article in electronic and print form. The magazine will not publish pieces that have been published elsewhere.

Query letters should be detailed and explain the story’s relevance, time hook, and local angle, as well as the author’s writing background, and should include clips if possible. Because of the volume of submissions, the magazine regrets that it cannot return or acknowledge every unsolicited manuscript and query. Please DO NOT SEND ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS OR DOCUMENTS, only copies.

Please send queries by e-mail to magazine@globe.com and include the word “Query” in the subject line, or by mail to Doug Most, editor, The Boston Globe Magazine, PO Box 55819, Boston, MA 02205-5819.