The National Forest Foundation is an organization that restores and enhances National Forests and Grasslands. They’re seeking story pitches for Winter/Spring 2026 issue of Light & Seed magazine, which will focus on how tech and innovation intersects with National Forests and Grasslands in the U.S. Specifically, they’re seeking pitches for “The Response,” a department that “uses the pillars of solutions journalism to investigate how people are responding to an issue of national importance.” Rate is $1,000 for 1,000 words. If interested, email your pitches to erinvriley@gmail.com. To learn more, refer to their call for pitches.

Carla is a quarterly print magazine by Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles. They’re welcoming pitches for their 45th issue: “We are looking for writing that is pointed and pertinent to our time and place in arts and culture. Join our conversation, and submit pieces that you feel are vital to the fabric of L.A.’s art community and the contemporary moment.”

Rates are $375 for feature essays (1,500–2,000 words); $350 for interviews (1,200–1,500 words); $375 for photo essays; and $200 for reviews (650–850 words). To learn more, refer to their post and pitch submission form.

Earth Island Journal is “a print and online magazine dedicated to thoughtful journalism about the environment and other intersectional issues.” They’re looking for pitches for an upcoming special edition on education and the environment: “Know of an incubation of environmental innovation? Censoring  content that's threatening the climate movement? Surprising impact of global heating on learning? Message us!”

They’re seeking on-the-ground reports as well as personal essays, reflections, and think pieces of various lengths. They pay a $500 flat fee for shorter pieces under 1,000 words; $750 to $1,500 for longer reports and essays of 1,500 to 3,000 words; $500 for interviews; and $400 for book reviews. If interested, email your pitches to submissions@earthisland.org. For details, refer to their post and call for pitches.

MIT Technology Review is a media company that explains the commercial, political, and social impact of the newest technologies. They’re looking for pitches for their upcoming print issue. The theme is Kids. They’re seeking pitches for longer pieces: “narrative features, compelling investigations, essential profiles, and super-sharp essays.” Please note they cast a wide net with these themes.

While this pitch call is aimed at journalists, experts with strong ideas are also encouraged to reach out. Rates are $1 to $2 a word.

To learn more, refer to their editor’s post and their pitch guide.

The Saskatchewan Writers’ Guild (SWG) is a not-for-profit cultural organization that “acts as an advocate to improve the status of Saskatchewan writers; encourages the development of writers at all levels; and strives to improve public access and awareness to Saskatchewan writers and their work.” They’re seeking pitches for articles, series, and industry interviews for Freelance, their magazine on the craft and business of writing. Rates are 20¢ per word. To learn more, refer to their call for pitches.

Film Daze is “an independent publication and media outlet that provides a platform for the unheard, and underrepresented voices of the film community.” They’re accepting pitches for their Issue 01. There is no theme. Payment is $120 for Issue 01, $150 for Issues 02-03, and $200 for Issue 04 and beyond, based on the paid subscriber base at the time. The submission deadline for the first issue is June 1st. Interested writers should send their pitches to editorial@filmdaze.net. To learn more, refer to their submissions page.  

Shadowbanned Magazine is “unapologetic media for the next generation of the political left — independent, people-powered, and rooted in the worlds of politics and culture.” They’re accepting pitches for their Issue 05:

“Share with us your boldest essays, reviews, interviews, reports, articles, poems, features, and whatever else would never get a mainstream media editor’s approval. Work that challenges the status quo and pokes at the machinery behind it.”

“We’re looking for work whose ideology sits somewhere within the framework of the political left… and no, that doesn’t mean liberal. We’re not interested in critiques of dicktatorsheeps halfway across the world unless it’s our own in the so-called land of the free.”

They pay $50 for 800-1,000 words, $75 for 1,100-1,500 words, $100 for 1,600-2,000 words, and a flat rate of $60 for poetry and artwork. To learn more, refer to their post and submission guidelines.

The Contrapuntal is “an independent non-profit publication devoted to delivering rigorously researched, accessible, and factually accurate journalism from a ground-up perspective.” They’re accepting pitches for a new project, Post-Panoptics: Embodied Surveillance and the Architectures of Control. They invite “investigative journalists, academics, artists, and practitioners to map how power concentrates through the surveillance gaze — and how we might analyse and understand it.” They’re commissioning deep-dive investigative features (5,000 words, €1,000), visual essays (€1,000), illustrated graphic essays (€1,000), analytical op-eds (2,500-3,000 words, €500), and artistic features (€200 honorarium). If interested, send your pitches to submissions.thecontrapuntal@protonmail.com. For details, refer to their post and call for submissions.

Business Insider covers business, personal finance, tech, lifestyle, politics, and more. Their editor is seeking “sources or pitches from Venetians who have lived in the city or have recently moved out on how Jeff Bezos's wedding is affecting them, if at all.” As per a previous post by this editor, their rates begin at £300. If interested, email kfields@businessinsider.com. To read their editor’s post, click here. To visit their contact page, click here.

Brookline.News is a nonprofit news site that covers the town of Brookline, MA. Their editor is accepting journalistic pitches related to Brookline – the more unique, interesting, creative, or unusual, the better. Rates begin at $250 per article. Email your pitches to smintz@brookline.news. To read their editor’s post, click here. To visit their contact page, click here.

ExperiencesWithEVs is a publication featuring experiences and data on EV driving in India. They’re seeking original, analytical, and investigative stories focused on the world of EVs and charging infrastructure. They will pay INR 5,000 upon publication. Exceptional stories may be compensated up to INR 10,000. To learn more, refer to their post and pitch form. To contact them, refer to this page.

Glamour UK is an online magazine for women. They’re seeking pitches on loneliness/community. They’re open to first-person narratives, inspiring stories, listicles, and more. They are also interested in hearing from people who run clubs/communities/events for women. They haven’t mentioned the rates, but as per this post by their website director, they pay £200 for opinion pieces and £300 for more investigative pieces. Send your pitches to anya.meyerowitz@condenast.co.uk. To learn more, refer to this post and their contact page.

DADDY is a Black-owned, Berlin-based magazine and consultancy dedicated to diversifying the media landscape. For their Power issue, they’re seeking “essays, stories, poems, photography, and art that explore the many faces of power—quiet or loud, personal or collective, visible or hidden.” They will pay contributors €100 upon publication (maximum 1,200 words). To learn more, refer to their post and Google form.

New Naratif is “a movement to democratise democracy in Southeast Asia.” To celebrate Pride Month, they’re seeking features or explanatory articles (1,500 to 2,000 words) under the theme of “Queer Yearning: The Melancholy and Joy of Queer Experiences in Southeast Asia.” They will pay $150 to $200 per piece. If interested, direct your pitches to pitches@newnaratif.com. To learn more, refer to their post and this page.

The Roots of Progress Institute (RPI) is “a nonprofit dedicated to building a culture of progress for the 21st century.” They’re looking to commission stories for their new article series called “Intelligence Age,” which will explore future applications of AI. They’re looking for stories of approximately 3,000 words and will pay $2 per word. For details, refer to their post and this page.

The Flytrap is “a media collective focused on feminist cultural criticism that responds to and engages with cultural phenomena, rejecting algorithmic editorial strategies.” Their pitching window for stories is opening soon. They pay $0.50 per word for written pieces. If they choose to kill an assignment, they pay a 50% kill fee. To learn more, refer to their cofounder’s post and this page.

TalkDeath is “the hub for death-conscious conversation.” They’re always open to pitches from guest writers. They’re particularly seeking “writers who can speak to death practices and traditions from equity deserving groups, the Global South, and Indigenous writers.” They also welcome individuals living with marginalized experiences to submit their pitches. Pay is $0.20 per word for 800 to 1,200 words. If interested, email your pitches to rian@talkdeath.com. To learn more, refer to their post and this page.

The Atavist Magazine is a digital-only publication that releases one blockbuster nonfiction story every month. Their editor-in-chief is accepting pitches. Their stories are 8,000 to 30,000 words long and their baseline story rate is $6,000. They also pay quarterly royalties to their authors. To learn more, refer to this post and their submissions page.