Hey ya’ll! Narratively Editorial Director Brendan Spiegel here. Early last year we put out a call for stories about unusual and fascinating family businesses, and this turned out to be one of our all-time most successful calls for pitches. I was blown away by some of the incredible and out-there pitches we got in, and loved working with writers on several of these pitches that became fantastic Narratively storie

These can be first-person pieces about your own experience or reported stories. Pay starts at $1,000 with room to go up for more ambitious stories.