How to Write for PalavaHut

If you are interested in writing for PalavaHut Magazine, you have come to the right place!

PalavaHut’s tagline is: “Online African Village.” Our readership and target audience is listed below.

Age Range: 18–50
Ethnicities: African Immigrants, blacks/African-Americans or any cultural group that has interest in aspects of African life
Education: 75 percent of our target audience are college graduates or are attending college
Gender: 45 percent of our target audience is males and 55 percent are female

PalavaHut provides an in-depth coverage of culture, health, music and other lifestyle issues that pertains to Africans on a global plane with the goal of providing a breeding ground for progressing and provocative discussion.

We welcome new writers and prefer to use those with previous journalism/writing experience. Thanks again for your interest. We look forward to working with you.

To pitch a story idea or submit a feature for PalavaHut.com, contact us here. For more information on what we’re looking for, read below.

Writers Guidelines

With more than 300,000 unique national and international visitors a month and growing, PalavaHut.com features web-exclusive and user-driven content. This site exists to give our audience a voice. Our readers are our writers.

We are also looking for recurring “expert” columnists in a variety of categories, from social justice to politics to cultural adjustment when living abroad. Just check out our Column categories and let us know where you’d fit.

Queries: Send a one-paragraph query to Editor. Include a summary describing the article idea, an approximate length and date it could be finished. Email submissions preferred, please refrain from phone or fax pitches. [Note: You do not have to query a story idea before sending it in.] We will forward the query to the appropriate section editor.

Submissions: We prefer submissions as Word attachments. Your name and a one-two sentence bio should be included with your submission, as well as an author photo (for the online bio) if possible. Submissions to the website are on a donation basis (byline and bio are compensation). Articles are automatically archived. Please double-check spelling and grammar before submitting. All articles will be edited for length, grammar, content, style and tone.

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Final Words

We do our best to respond to all inquiries, but be aware that we are sometimes inundated. If you have not heard back from us after 4-6 weeks, please assume that we will not be able to use your idea or submission.