Thursday, October 28, 2010

Freelance writing, Go! Online Magazine for Young Adults, pays $50 per piece published

Go! is an online magazine for teens and young adults ages 14–20. The magazine covers transportation from all angles, from the infrastructure to the vehicles to the people behind the wheel—whether that “wheel” is on a car, truck, train, plane, or ship.

Iowa State University's Institute for Transportation (InTrans) publishes Go!. InTrans and the sponsors of Go! want to show teens and young adults the exciting possibilities for careers in transportation.

* Go! staff
* Go! editorial board
* Contributor's guidelines
* Linking policy

Go! staff

* Rema Nilakanta is the program coodinator. She is coordinates strategic long-term efforts with the managing editor. She is also responsible for overseeing the staff and ensuring the timeliness and quality of content production. Contact her at rema@iastate.edu or 515-294-1945.
* Marcia Brink is the managing editor. She comes up with the big ideas and keeps an eye on the magazine's quality and direction. She's also the communications manager for InTrans. Contact her at mbrink@iastate.edu or 515-294-9480.
* Mina Shin is the graphic designer and art director for Go!. She’s responsible for the Mystery Photo, helps design Go!'s look, creates the Flash images on the home page, and prepares photos for use in Go!. She is also the graphic designer for the National Concrete Pavement Technology Center.

Contributor's guidelines

For the forseeable future, Go! will be totally staff written.

Teen POV (point of view) column

We encourage people ages 14 to 20 to submit personal essays or opinion pieces for the Teen POV column. Possible topics might be graduated drivers licenses, using a cell phone while driving, or anything else that affects young people and is related to transportation.

Teen POV columns are accepted at any time. Length should be about 500 words. Submit your piece as a Word attachment to editor@go-explore-trans.com.

We'll pay $50 for each piece we publish. We'll also give you a Go! t-shirt.

More information here.