Pitch Writer

Calling all writers — a new call for pitches has just dropped! 🚨

Apartment Therapy’s Lifestyle team is now accepting 2026 pitches for stories tied to holidays, events, and observances happening in January, February, and March — think Dry January, Mardi Gras, and St. Patrick’s Day.

We’re looking for personal, original, and timely ideas across our Lifestyle verticals:
🏡 Life
🧽 Cleaning
📦 Organizing
🏘️ Real Estate

Bring us your pitches for:
—Personal essays with a strong point of view
—Unique perspectives or reported features
—Profiles of inspiring people or brands
—History deep dives that connect to the season

Find full details (including examples of successful stories and pitching tips) and submit your ideas here: [click apply]

📅 Deadline: Pitches will be accepted until November 17.
Please note: The form may close earlier if we receive a high volume of submissions, so it’s best to send in your ideas early!

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Apartment Therapy Lifestyle Holidays, Events, & Observances Freelance Pitches (Jan-March 2026)

The Apartment Therapy Lifestyle team — which includes the Life, Cleaning, Organizing, and Real Estate verticals — is looking for pitches centered on holidays, events, and observances that occur during the months of January, February, and March.

These should be: personal essays, unique perspectives, reported features, profiles of brands and people, or history deep dives tied to upcoming holidays, celebrations, observances, and other timely events and fit comfortably into any of our Lifestyle verticals. We're not looking for listicles on how to celebrate/commemorate these holidays/observances, rather personal perspectives on how these intersect with you and your life at home.

Examples: I Finally Bought a Green Velvet Couch — Then, I Found a Community of Black Women Just Like Me, I Moved to a Thriving LGBTQ+ Neighborhood in Chicago. Here’s How It Changed My Life, The “Japanese Goodbye” Ritual That Brings Me So Much Joy, Why Taking Your Shoes Off is More Than Just a Clean Habit — It’s a Sign of Respect, “Extreme Cleaning” Took Over My Life — Here’s How I Reined It In, What Modern Buildings Can Learn from Indigenous Architecture, A Trip to Mexico Changed the Way I View My Hispanic Heritage — and My Approach to Home, I Did Dry January and I’m Actually Keeping these 5 Lifestyle Changes

What Makes a Good Pitch?

Successful pitches for these moments should fall neatly into one of these Lifestyle verticals. Life vertical is all about our relationship to our homes, whether it's a way you celebrate or embrace your personality or identity there, something that changed the way you live at home, or connects you to your culture. The Cleaning and Organizing verticals can touch on your relationship with keeping a clean and organized home as it intersects with your identity and culture. Real Estate handles buying, selling, and living in our homes and can include your own personal journey to homeownership (any ties to identity, family history, and anything else that makes you, you.) 

How to Structure Your Pitch

Please include a working headline, brief description of the pitch (few sentences to two paragraphs at most), and what holiday/observance/event you are pitching about. Share if this is a personal piece or will require sources (and if you already have them in mind). If there is a holiday that is missing from this list, feel free to pitch that as well.

Holidays, Events, & Observances in January, February, and March

Some example questions to help generate thought starters: 

• Is there something in your home that connects you with your broader heritage? 
• Is there an at-home celebration connected to a holiday or event that you feel deserves a special spotlight and that you and your family observe?
• Are there any heroes or trailblazers in your community who have changed your relationship with your home in relationship to one of these holidays or observances?
• How does your home reflect your identity? Did moving into your own space change your relationship with yourself, or helped you feel more like you in relation to one of these holidays or observances?

January: Dry January, New Year's Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day 

February: Black History Month, Groundhog Day, Super Bowl, Galentine's Day, Valentine's Day, President's Day, Lunar New Year, Chinese New Year Begins, Ramadan Begins, Mardi Gras, Ash Wednesday/Lent begins

March: Women's History Month, International Women's Day, Day Light Savings Time Begins, Sleep Awareness Week, St. Patricks Day, Full Moon, Eid al-Fitr, First Day of Spring/Spring Equinox, Ramadan Ends, International Transgender Day of Visibility 

Rates start at $150, but vary based on assignment. Please include your full name and any relevant clips/a website. We'll be accepting pitches until Nov. 17.

Got any questions? You can submit them via this form. If we're interested in your pitch, we'll reach out to you via email.

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