Writing Magazine March 2020

WRITERS’ NEWS

http://www.writers-online.co.uk MARCH 2020^97

Saga magazine, edited
by Louise Robinson, is
the UK’s leading lifestyle
title for the over-fifties,
and with more than
223,000 subscribers, is
one of the UK’s best-
selling subscription
titles. Every month
it provides interesting and informative
features on lifestyle topics including
health, beauty and wellbeing, money and
pensions, leisure, food, dating, family
relationships, motoring, homes and gardens
and celebrities. Much of the content is
commissioned from professional freelances,
and pitches from experienced writers are
accepted. Payment varies.
Details: email: [email protected];
website: http://www.saga.co.uk/magazine

The Oldie is a free-
thinking, funny magazine
that provided its readers
with an entertaining
mixture of retirement
advice and light-hearted
features on a wide range
of topics. Contributions
are welcomed by editor
Harry Mount from writers familiar with
the magazine and its style. Send finished
articles, not pitches, on any subject,
between 600 and 1,300 words. Rants and
contributions for ‘I Once Met...’ are also
welcomed. Send pieces by email. Payment
varies.
Details: email: [email protected];
website: http://www.theoldie.co.uk

Prime magazine is a

bimonthly upmarket

lifestyle magazine for

the over-sixties from

Newsquest, with national

content and targetted

regional advertising.

Features are aimed at

affluent retirees, with

topics including homes and interiors, travel,

leisure interests, food, culture and celebrity

interests. Magazine manager Emma Stowell-

Corten is happy to hear from high-quality

freelances with suitable ideas. Payment

varies.

Details: email: emma-stowell-corten@

newsquest.co.uk; website: https://prime-

magazine.co.uk/

Retirement

Today, edited by

Sarah James, is a

bimonthly glossy

lifestyle magazine

that covers topics of

interest both pre-

and post-retirement.

Content is wide-

ranging, including

features on finance,

returning to education, travel, charity and

voluntary work, interiors, arts and culture,

activities and pastimes and practical

advice. Submissions are welcomed on

topics pertinent to the magazine. Payment

varies.

Details: email: editor@retirement-today.

col.uk; website: http://www.retirement-today.

co.uk/

The People’s Friend

is known for its

fiction, but it also

carries feature

articles on topics

of interest to its

reader community,

including inspiring

lives, nostalgia,

helping others and

travel. Submissions

are welcomed of full-length true-life

features on travel, people, history, nostalgia

and nature, and shorter filler pieces,

around 600 words, on hobbies, memories,

people, places and experiences, all written

with the Friend’s trademark warmth and

kindness, that concentrate on the positive

aspects of the subject. Send finished work

by mail. Full guidelines are available

online. Payment varies.

Website: http://thepeoplesfriend.co.uk/

Yours fortnightly

magazine for women

over fifty is packed

with friendly,

accessible content

about health, family,

relationships,

travel, fashion,

celebrities and food.

Submissions of

short, real-life-based

features are welcomed

on inspirational

experiences and adventures (not longer

than 300 words), written in the magazine’s

friendly, warm style. Accompany article

submissions with a relevant photograph.

Mark emails ‘Non-fiction submission’ in

the subject line. Payment varies.

Details: email: [email protected];

website: http://www.yours.co.uk

Dignity is a

bimonthly current

affairs publication

that provides topical,

news-based features

on issues affecting the

over-fifties, including

health and social

care, legal matters

and money and

pensions. Articles in

Dignity are intended

to be practical and actionable, offering

readers useful information that enables

them to live well. Editor Arlene Martin

is happy to accept pitches for news-based

feature articles of 1,500 words from writers

with news experience. Payment is NUJ

rates.

Details: email: arlene_martin@yahoo.

co.uk; website: http://www.dignitymagazine.

co.uk

INTRODUCTIONS

Writing Magazine presents a selection of mature readers’ publications currently accepting

contributions. We strongly recommend that you read back issues, familiarise yourself with

their guidelines before submitting and check websites for submission details.

Portable Paradise pockets prize

The winner of this year’s TS Eliot Prize was A

Portable Paradise by Roger Robinson.

A Portable Paradise is published by Leeds-

based independent Peepal Tree Press, and

includes poems about Robinson’s family

alongside works about black history, Grenfell

Towers and the NHS.

‘There is a wonderful balance of personal and

political in this collection,’ said chair of judges

John Burnside. ‘It is passionate and sociologically

engaged, without being rigorous about it – there

was a strong sense of humanity to the book.’

Previous winners of the prize include Ted

Hughes, Don Paterson, Ocean Vuong and Carol

Ann Duffy.

Website: https://tseliot.com/prize/

SagaSaga

by Louise Robinson, is

the UK’s leading lifestyle

title for the over-fifties,

and with more than

223,000 subscribers, is

one of the UK’s best-

selling subscription

titles. Every month

The Oldie

thinking, funny magazine

that provided its readers

with an entertaining

mixture of retirement

advice and light-hearted

features on a wide range

of topics. Contributions

are welcomed by editor

Prime

bimonthly upmarket

lifestyle magazine for

the over-sixties from

Newsquest, with national

content and targetted

regional advertising.

Features are aimed at

affluent retirees, with

Retirement

Today

Sarah James, is a

bimonthly glossy

lifestyle magazine

that covers topics of

interest both pre-

and post-retirement.

Content is wide-

ranging, including

features on finance,

The People’s Friend

is known for its

fiction, but it also

carries feature

articles on topics

of interest to its

reader community,

including inspiring

lives, nostalgia,

helping others and

travel. Submissions

are welcomed of full-length true-life

magazine for women

over fifty is packed

with friendly,

accessible content

about health, family,

relationships,

travel, fashion,

celebrities and food.

Submissions of

short, real-life-based

features are welcomed

on inspirational

Dignity

bimonthly current

affairs publication

that provides topical,

news-based features

on issues affecting the

over-fifties, including

health and social

care, legal matters

and money and

pensions. Articles in

Dignity