Pitches are closed for December 2024 as we strategise and plan for 2025.

We will be back in January with our 2025 focuses and pitching guidelines.

Things To Note:

• Familiarise yourself with Black Ballad before pitching to understand the type of writing we publish and ensuring that we haven’t already covered your pitch before – and if we have, how is your article going to be different to the one we’ve already published?
• We love original reporting with statistics, data, expert interviews and contributions from relevant interviewees (if applicable).
• We have a global readership, but our core audience will always be Black British (and not just London!), so stats, data and interviewees should reflect that as much as is possible.
• We do not accept articles that are already written, ghostwritten, have already been published or are pitched through third parties (i.e. publicists/PRs).
• We try our best to respond to all pitches, even if we reject them, but given the volume of pitches we are not always able to provide personalised feedback on why your pitch was rejected. 
• Our editorial team do not monitor our social media channels, so do not pitch or follow up on pitches via these platforms.

Book Publicists & PRs

We love books and all things literary at Black Ballad, as do our audience. We accept proofs/review copies of books by black authors for consideration, but we do not publish straight reviews. Instead we try to cover books and authors in creative ways over our social platforms and website.

We do publish features from authors (please see pitching guidelines above) and we also work with authors and publishing houses on events and promotional activities across our platforms. Please email [email protected] to start a conversation.

Commercial Partnerships

Black Ballad has a track record of successful partnerships across various sectors. For more information on ways that your brand or organisation can work with Black Ballad please email [email protected].