If you have interest in men, have the discipline to write a post a day, and want the benefits of writing for a large, engaged and growing platform, consider joining The Good Men Project team.
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If writing about manhood in any form appeals to you, we’d love for you to become a regular blogger. You will get a terrific platform (the total network is steadily growing, but right now gets 3.2 million pageviews a month) and an opportunity to help shape the publication. There really is no limit to what you can blog about, as long as it relates in some way to things that men care about—or should care about. Are you on a quest to become a better man? That would make a great topic for a series of blog posts. Do you want to blog about sports, sex, relationships, politics, friendship, addiction/recovery, cars, cooking, spirituality, fatherhood, divorce, movies, the environment, or how your anger-management classes are going? Terrific. We’re not looking for clichéd pieces about men as an inflexible monolith. So don’t write that. Go deeper. Be funny. Be sad. But be original. First person narratives that lead to some deeper, universal truths are always welcome here. Check out our about page if you want to learn more about who we are and how we’ve grown.
If you, or someone you know, is interested in becoming a blogger at The Good Men Project, please email [email protected] with a pitch. We’ll want to know what your particular slant is, what you want to write about, and how you expect to do it. Some sense of your writing (and life) experience would help too along with your social media platform, if you have one. But there are no particular requirements other than a good idea and brutal honesty and, hopefully, a sense of humor.
Answers to FAQs: a) unpaid b) 2 month minimum commitment c) you can always link back to your own blog d) the majority of your posts will need to be unique content e) you will upload and format your posts, however, we will have final editorial say f) we work with many large media companies and have a robust social media outreach and will help push your work outward.
Gents,
I would love to contribute. I work locally here in Florida at a grassroots level facilitating a men’s group and coaching men. I can share from real world experiences and what I have found to be helpful for my own growth. I love the blog by the way…Thanks
Max
Oh, would that I had the time and discipline for the 1-post-a-day requirement. I do have a list stored away with my other Notes to Self of “Potential articles to write for GMP” but they haven’t been at the top of my priority list. Working a full-time job, teaching on the side and moving towards launching my own business have dominated my life lately. I do hope you’ll still be taking single submissions, though, in lieu of a regular blogger – my husband is about to start another job that will have him traveling a lot, giving me copious alone… Read more »
We do have a regular single submissions section, which you can submit to at any time. https://goodmenproject.submittable.com/submit
I’ve done couple of things here, pretty much the “warm and fuzzy” kind of stuff that most aren’t interested in. Not sure if I could write much that could attract readers. I’ll think about it though.
A piece about this feeling of insecurity you have would interest me, one reader. I have intimate experience of this feeling myself, and i’ve been a professional creative writer and editor for going on ten years. It’s the insecurity of every artist/writer, which presumably is the insecurity of every creative human – that is, every human. I encourage you to just start writing about these feelings and leave organising them into a coherent (publishable) narrative until you feel you’ve got the core ideas out. That’s how i approach it, anyway. And the result is always therapeutic, whether it’s publishable or… Read more »
Ive never blogged but if youre looking for a guy who believes in living your dreams hit me up. Married 26 yrs to a beautiful funny lady with 2 grown kids Im pretty sure my stories could leave readers thinking about the possibilities of a life lived well.. I am an avid sports fan, love fishing and plan on migrating south in 2 years. I couldve written about a BBQ I attended today and my exploits of meeting cousins I hadnt seen in 10 years. Maybe a story about losing a beloved dog or the challenges of parenting. I would… Read more »
I think that’s probably what they’re looking for based on the response I got from Lisa. I think particularly dealing with an aging parent. I’m not sure if anybody else has noticed, but in my mom’s generation most people who cared for aging parents were the daughters. I could see it amongst my mom and some older cousins. Now it seems increasingly to be the sons. In my group it’s been three sons who’ve taken care of aging parents including one who switched careers from the financial sector to the tech sector so that he had opportunities to work from… Read more »
Friends, I’ve been living and writing about men’s issues for more than 40 years. I’ve engaged with all aspects of what we call “the men’s movement.” Men’s Rights, Feminist Men, Recovery, Mythopoetic. I’ve found that labels are often restrictive. One of the best things about the Good Men Project is that we can focus our attention on our lives and what it means to be a good man today with all the possible shades and colors of manhood. I’m a man, a husband (married three times), a father (five kids, one natural child, one adopted child and three boys I… Read more »
A call to MRAs. I’ve complained about lack of MRA perspective in the posts. You can’t complain if you don’t take advantage of the opportunity. I’ve made my pitch.
And I have been answering that call for some time now. (But I’m sure you would like for more to speak up though.)
I’ve seen your posts and I’ve submitted a few myself. Only one was published. Excerpts of others have been pasted into the comment sections when it was relevant to the topic of discussion, but yeah, I’d like to see more people try. That’s why I feel a right to complain about the MRA point of view being ignored. I really can’t see how a site that purports to be about men’s issues can justify leaving out the men’s movement. Whether you agree with the mainstream MRM or not (and there are times I don’t agree), it is of concern and… Read more »
Danny and John, I too have seen your posts and writing, like to see more. It would be refreshing to have articles geared towards men’s rights or a stronger stance about men. For an international discussion, this is soft-core, touchy-feely themes. Most of these articles and this site cater to the feme-apoligist and gender-wishy washy topics, such as ‘Demoniizing male sexuality’ and how to express feelings, re-designing masculinity, but the guys I know don’t talk that way. Never did, never will. We talk about important issues and we don’t apologize for being men.
Are you saying that talking about feelings isn’t important?
I think what he’s saying is if you talk about feelings, you’re not a man, which kind of makes the point for why this site publishes what it publishes to begin with. Not all men need to be stuck in 1960s stereotypes to be men.
Hi John, I am not an MRA, more of a HRA (human rights activist), because I believe in equality and empowerment for all peoples. Having said that I am an ardent critic of much of modern feminism and its story about men. I have many times tried to have articles published on this site that deconstruct the feminist polemic and reveal the underlying sexism behind it, but they are always rejected. Similarly, comments that criticise feminism often do not make it through the censorship process here. I call it censorship rather than moderation because a site that claims to be… Read more »
Made my pitch, didn’t even receive and email back. Pitch below My name is Adam Blanch. I am a professional therapist, writer, speaker and workshop leader who has been active in men’s and women’s healing and empowerment for over 25 years. I have degrees in psychology and indigenous studies (sociology). I am a passionate supporter of human rights and a recovering feminist. I am not an MRA, as I do not believe that human rights belong to one gender or the other, but I am an ardent critic of the feminist polemic about men. Your about page says that this… Read more »
Adam, who did you pitch to?
Adam, Call me crazy, but I’m thinking insulting their editorial decisions, criticizing their content, and allowing them less than four days to respond to a pitch you made on a Sunday during a month of the year that most sites and writing offices are running at low capacity staffing for the post-holiday period, then openly complaining on a forum that they had not responded to you in what you felt was a timely manner may have had something to do with your pitch not getting accepted. Regardless of what any editor thinks of your content or viewpoint, they probably aren’t… Read more »
I’m very interested in doing this. I am currently going through a divorce after 16 years of marriage and a tremendous amount of personal and social change. Working on deep-seated emotional issues that ruined my marriage and working to become a better man; more emotionally aware and healthy, more physically healthy, and in general redefining myself as a person, a dad, and an ex-husband.