Call for Pitches: The Unexpected Family Business

Know of a family that runs a surprising and one-of-a-kind business? Tell me more, please!

Hey ya’ll! Narratively Editorial Director Brendan Spiegel here. Early last year we put out a call for stories about unusual and fascinating family businesses, and this turned out to be one of our all-time most successful calls for pitches. I was blown away by some of the incredible and out-there pitches we got in, and loved working with writers on several of these pitches that became fantastic Narratively stories. That includes Abigail Edge’s riveting saga “The First Family of Human Cannonballing” and Hallie Lieberman’s one-of-a-kind tale “The Deep South’s Dames of Dildos”— which Narratively CEO Noah Rosenberg recently shared is the #1 Narratively story he tells strangers about. (Give that one a read and you’ll quickly understand why!)

Stories about tight-knit families running quirky businesses like these, with inherent drama at their core, are my absolute favorite type of Narratively piece. The rest of our team (and our readers) love these stories, too. So we’re reopening this call fo…