We pay for writing that cites its sources.
The Luya Journal is where we do our thinking in public. If you grow food, cook it, or study it, we would rather publish you under your own name than write it ourselves.
Paid in product, credited by name.
Accepted articles earn $100–$250 in LUYA credit, set by length and depth. Credit is spent on systems, seed trays and consumables — which is also the point: we would rather have contributors who have grown the crop they are describing.
An article that passes 10,000 lifetime reads earns a further $100 in credit. We tell you when it happens; you do not have to track it.
- Your byline
- Published under your name and a short bio, with a link to your own site or channel.
- $100–$250 in credit
- Set by length and depth, agreed before you write the final draft.
- $100 readership bonus
- Paid once an article passes 10,000 lifetime reads.
- You keep writing elsewhere
- We ask for first publication, not exclusivity over your career.
Every factual claim carries its source.
This is the part that is not negotiable. Any statement about nutrition, health or what a study found needs a link to the study itself — a DOI or a PubMed record, not a news article about the study, and not a supplement brand's summary of it.
Personal experience is welcome and does not need a citation. It does need to be described as personal experience rather than as a general finding.
Anything touching health is reviewed by one of our scientists before it publishes, and carries their name if it does.
- 800–1,500 words
- Long enough to actually answer the question you opened with.
- Original and unpublished
- Not posted elsewhere first, and not written by a language model.
- Sources as links
- DOI or PubMed for research. No affiliate links anywhere.
- Your own photographs welcome
- Real trays beat stock photography, including the failed ones.
We edit for clarity, house style and accuracy, and we will show you the edit before it publishes. We will not change your conclusion.
The gaps we would most like filled.
You are not limited to these, but these are where the Journal is thin: growing failures and what actually fixed them, crop-by-crop flavour notes from someone who has cooked with them, and honest write-ups of what published research does and does not establish.
Before pitching, it is worth reading a few pieces in the topic you are aiming at — we would rather add to a cluster than duplicate it.
Send a finished piece, not a pitch.
Email partner@luyaxyz.com with one completed article, a sentence about who you are, and a link to anything else you have written. A finished draft tells us more in five minutes than a pitch does in a week.
We reply either way. A no on one piece is not a no on the next one — say so and send another.
Submitting does not guarantee publication, and we cannot pay for work we do not publish. Nothing is published under your name without your approval of the final text.
Send the finished article itself, a sentence on who you are, and a link to anything else you have written — including the sources you relied on.
A dedicated intake form for this relationship type publishes shortly. Until then these conversations are handled individually so nothing is lost in a generic inbox.