Dear Writers, Here’s our latest roundup of calls for pitches, directly from editors. Please do not contact any of these editors without carefully studying their publication to make sure that you’re sending a pitch that closely fits their needs. If too many people send bad pitches, editors are likely to no longer openly solicit pitches….
An Interview with Noah Michelson, Head of HuffPost Personal at HuffPost, one of the most popular news and culture websites in the world. They are open to writers from diverse backgrounds. Noah Michelson was in conversation with freelance personal essay and health writer, Viney Kirpal. During this frank one-on-one, he talked at length about what…
Dear Writers, Here’s our latest roundup of calls for pitches, directly from editors. Please do not contact any of these editors without carefully studying their publication to make sure that you’re sending a pitch that closely fits their needs. If too many people send bad pitches, editors are likely to no longer openly solicit pitches….
Aseptic and Faintly Sadistic: An Anthology of Hysteria Fiction, which is presented by CHM and will benefit the Chicago Abortion Fund, is seeking dark speculative fiction from anyone directly at risk as a result of the Supreme Court’s ruling on Roe v. Wade, defined inclusively. Submissions were only recently opened for this anthology, and the…
Dear Writers, Here’s out latest roundup of traditional jobs for writers, including social media, journalism, copywriting, and editing jobs. Companies in this list include The Wall Stree Journal, The NHL, The New Yorker, and Popculture.com — Jacob Jans Thanks to Fatima Saif for compiling this list. The Wall Street Journal is a daily business and…
By Sam Feldman One very important aspect of freelance writing is the article proposal, pitch, or query letter. After all, it is the first thing the publisher sees about the proposed article and the key factor in choosing it. So, knowing how to write a good query is crucial for every writer. Even now, after…
These are awards and grants up to £20,000 for fiction, nonfiction, poetry, playwriting, screenwriting, and journalism. A couple of the deadlines are in July. They’re loosely divided geographically. – S. Kalekar INTERNATIONAL CONTESTS Briefly Write Poetry Prize Briefly Write is a magazine of short fiction and poetry. They want poetry of 10 lines for this…