We believe that all editors want compelling, well-executed material to engage their audiences. We also believe that it’s ever more difficult to identify and develop writers and stories involving the widest possible diversity of backgrounds, sources, voices, settings, and issues. This is partly due to budget and personnel cuts, partly due to risks associated with untested writers. Editors naturally operate within their own parameters, rely on their own rolodexes. So Project Word does the filtering and developing to ease the problem.

We reserve the right to charge for any assignments or requests initiated by editors, but otherwise we provide our service free of charge. We simply request credit or attribution from publications in some form, and insist on mentioning outstanding proposals and posting successful pieces.

We introduce proposals and writers to you. But once a piece is commissioned, writers are responsible to their editors and their editors alone. We then coach only as necessary and stay out of the way, keeping the reins in the hands editors and publications.

Interested editors can browse our sample articles and sample writers, or sign up to receive queries by e-mailing us your publication name and any notes. Please mark “Send URL queries” in the subject line. For more on how URL queries work, click here.