Freedom With Writing

The Economic Security Project is currently hosting a short story contest with a massive prize: $12,000 cash, given as “basic income” for an entire year. The short story should be about the idea of “basic income,” which is unconditional money given to an individual, and is able to cover their basic needs. The idea of…

Contributed by S. Kalekar Next Show All These magazines pay up to $250; some pay more. Topics include lapidary and gold prospecting, fiction and non-fiction for adults and children, articles on raising children, history, travel and food, woodworking, aviation and anecdotes at sea. Some of these are regional opportunities. Rock & Gem This is a…

Black Cat Mystery Magazine is a new magazine, published digitally and in print, that features short mystery stories involving a crime. They are currently accepting submissions for their second and third issue. The deadline to submit is December 15th, 2017. Although, their guidelines imply that they’re filling slots as they approach the deadline. This would…

Next Show All As many of you know, we just updated the Paid Publishing Guidebook. It now includes 501 publishers that pay writers. This list is a sample of 30 of those publishers. All of these publishers pay $200 for at least some of the articles they publish.For even more publishers, I encourage you to…

Contributed By S. Kalekar Next Show All This list has contests and awards for poets and writers of fiction and non-fiction in various demographics: there are contests of speculative fiction, envisaging future cities and economic equality; poetry on the massacre at Nanking, during World War II; for children’s writers and writers over 40; for Arts…

The internet powerhouse Buzzfeed is accepting applications to a four month writing fellowship. Buzzfeed has been working hard to break out of just viral-meme articles, hiring a significant hard-news team. This fellowship appears to be part of that same program. This is the third year of their fellowship program. The fellowship pays $14,000, up from…

Bitch Magazine is calling for themed submissions for their upcoming issue on “Revenge.” The magazine is focused on presenting thoughtful feminist responses to pop culture. They define pop culture as “encompassing cultural attitudes and myths, phenomena of the popular imagination, and social trends as well as movies, TV, magazines, books, advertising, and the like.” According…