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Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/34122
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I have had a similar experience about six or seven times: I email an editor, and, after several dozen times of pitching articles to various of editors, I get a response. They find my pitch interesting, and say that it's a right fit for the paper or magazine.

Then, I type up the essay, send it in with due regards, and never hear from them again.

I pitch about a wide variety of things: atheism (not anti-theist, because that simply doesn't sell, but what atheist thought can mean, for example), political pieces, takes on cultural affairs nationally and locally (e.g., Black Lives Matter, and the heroin epidemic near city, respectively), things about cookery (maybe I am old-fashioned, but the articles about cookery are akin to Orwell's essay on making tea, which I found incredible).

But I cannot seem to get a single article accepted and printed. I contact editors, but good god do they never respond. I mean Noam Chomsky, world-famous political scientist, linguist, public intellectual, philosophy, etc., will respond to your email within the hour, but out of 45 editors, maybe one will reply with a "not interested" letter.

How am I to get my pieces in? Contact editors directly? What's the deal?

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