Philebrity is open for pitches year round, and here’s what we like to see:

• Stories about people, places and things in Philadelphia that would surprise even lifers like us who are tired of the idea that we’ve seen everything. We’ve seen nothing!

• Profiles and features that are distinctly off of the local hype cycle in the worlds of Philly arts, music, food, and so on. If they’ve got a publicist, we’re probably not interested.

• Politics, civics and urban life pieces that cut through the thicket of Philly’s byzantine machinery and offer unvarnished truth.

• Personal stories about the city that are compelling and have heart and will not make us want to charge you for therapy in exchange for us having read them.

• And perhaps most importantly, stories about the city that people would want to read both now, and 100 years from now.

  HOW TO PITCH:
  Send an email to tips[at]philebrity[dot]com formatted in the following fashion:

1. Subject: “PITCH: [Your Piece’s Headline]” Ex: “PITCH: Letter From Forgotten Bottom, The City’s Strangest Neighborhood”

2. Body: Just a few sentences about what that piece would be about.

Philebrity pays between $50 and $100 per piece; our preferred word count for pieces like these is between 500 and 1500 words.