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Science writers for children wanted
Xiaoduo Media (小多传媒), a publisher based in both New York and Beijing is looking for science writers for children. We currently publish three monthly magazines and an assortment of book series for age 6 to 14. The science magazine “Ask You Ask Me”《问你问我》 publishes feature articles, science fiction and scientific activities.
Our mission is to make available world-class quality content to children in China to foster a love of learning, develop critical thinking skills and mold global citizens.
We welcome writers with science background, scientists and science students who are interested in writing for children submit your articles or works.
For more information please find here our homepage: newbielink:http://www.xiaoduo.com.cn/news/
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For Magazine “Ask You Ask Me” for children ages 6-14:
We are interested in articles rich in scientific accuracy and lively approaches to the subject at hand. The inclusion of primary research (interviews with scientists focusing on current research) are of primary interest to the magazine. We hope the writer to study the real cases in the scientific field, find the one that is the best for explaining (or corroborating) the basic scientific knowledge. We want the readers to face the real scientific world, but not simply the textbook knowledge.
We have a fixed topic for each issue. The general topics for magazines published in 2014 are as bellow:
1, Studying earth from space
2, Racing between modern medicine and modern diseases
3, Plague and Bio terrorism
4, Conductivity, semiconductor and superconductor
5, How Video Games (Computer Games) Change Us
6, Food safety
7, The evolution of the stars
Procedures of submitting:
1, Choose one of the a.m. general topic, we will give you one or more subtopics to choose.
2, Send us an outline about your story to be discussed
3, After your outline has been accepted, you could start writing
Length
: Up to 1000 words
Rates
20 to 25¢ per word
Submissions, queries and questions should be directed to:
Editor: Conny
Email: 1541522674@qq.com
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Interesting ideas. I would think several of the suggested topics might be a bit advanced for a 6 yr old, although, perhaps interesting to 14 yr olds. I would also think that it would be difficult to write a journal that would be of interest to such a wide age range of students.
You don't mention illustrations. At least the younger children are very visual, but even the older students will be keen on illustrations.
I looked at your website. If you wish to solicit English speaking submissions (or other languages), it would be beneficial to translate all, or portions of your website into English (and other languages). While many websites can autodetect the locale, it can be beneficial of adding a button such as a flag that switches to the desired language.
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Thank you for your comments
You are right, the articles we want are not easy to write. According to our experience, there are kids who are interested in such kind of difficult topics. But you need explain the difficult thing on a way that the kids can understand.
We certainly will put illustration to the articles, but this is a forum for science, not for illustrators, right?
Up to now we only sell the magazines and books translated into Chinese, that's why we only have a website in Chinese. But we will think about your suggestion. Thank you
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Often charts and diagrams accompany scientific literature, although if you are adding animals and such, a good illustrator is worthwhile. But, again, that would depend on the target audience.
If the ultimate goal is Chinese literature, why not solicit Chinese authors? Personally I'm not sure I would choose to invest a significant amount of time writing articles only to have them translated and only viewed in Chinese. $250 per article sounds low.
Some topics are universal.
Things like food safety may well be different in each country. For example, in the USA, "tap water" tends to be safe whether one is in the city with heavily filtered and treated water supplies, or in the country using well water. In Egypt, one should just expect the tap water to cause GI issues. I don't know about China. Apparently Hepatitis A is in at least some of the Chinese water supplies.
I presume the Chinese tend to have a lot more rice in their diet, as well as different appliances such as rice cookers. Leftovers? Woks?
There are food scandals around the world including alcoholic beverages tainted with methanol. The Chinese have been noted for the use of
Melamine
in both pet food and human food.
In the USA, I wouldn't think twice about purchasing milk, or other agricultural products. In China? I don't know. If I was in a small town, I might actually be happy to know the farmer that was growing the livestock.
Not really food safety, but many westerners highly object to the idea of hunting a species for a single body part and discarding the rest of the carcass as is being done with shark fin soup.
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