INTRODUCTIONS
Saga magazine, edited by Louise Robinson, is the UK’s leading lifestyle title for the over-fifties, and with more than 223,000 subscribers, is one of the UK’s best selling subscription titles. Every month it provides interesting and informative features on lifestyle topics including health, beauty and wellbeing, money and pensions, leisure, food, dating, family relationships, motoring, homes and gardens and celebrities. Much of the content is commissioned from professional freelances, and pitches from experienced writers are accepted. Payment varies.
Details: email: editor@saga.co.uk; website: www.saga.co.uk/magazine
The Oldie is a free thinking, funny magazine that provided its readers with an entertaining mixture of retirement advice and light-hearted features on a wide range of topics. Contributions are welcomed by editor Harry Mount from writers familiar with the magazine and its style. Send finished articles, not pitches, on any subject, between 600 and 1,300 words. Rants and contributions for ‘I Once Met…’ are also welcomed. Send pieces by email. Payment varies.
Details: email: editorial@theoldie.co.uk; website: www.theoldie.co.uk
Prime magazine is a bimonthly upmarket lifestyle magazine for the over-sixties from Newsquest, with national content and targetted regional advertising. Features are aimed at affluent retirees, with topics including homes and interiors, travel, leisure interests, food, culture and celebrity interests. Magazine manager Emma Stowell-Corten is happy to hear from high-quality freelances with suitable ideas. Payment varies.
Details: email: emma-stowell-corten@newsquest.co.uk; website: https://prime-magazine.co.uk/
Retirement Today, edited by Sarah James, is a bimonthly glossy lifestyle magazine that covers topics of interest both pre and post-retirement. Content is wide ranging, including features on finance, returning to education, travel, charity and voluntary work, interiors, arts and culture, activities and pastimes and practical advice. Submissions are welcomed on topics pertinent to the magazine. Payment varies.
Details: email: editor@retirement-today.col.uk; website: www.retirement-today.co.uk/
is known for its fiction, but it also carries feature articles on topics of interest to its reader’s trademark warmth and kindness, that concentrate on the positive aspects of the subject. Send finished work by mail. Full guidelines are available online. Payment varies.
