Submissions and Pitches

Mike Alissi | 10.19.2018 4:42 PM

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• Reason rarely accepts unsolicited manuscripts. We try to give every pitch and manuscript due consideration, but if we have not replied to you within a week, you should assume we are not interested. Submissions must be exclusive to Reason. We are generally not interested in publishing something that you've already published elsewhere.
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Mike Alissi is vice president for operations at Reason Foundation and publisher of Reason magazine.