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24 Free Writing Contests With Cash Prizes Up to $54,000

October 25, 2019

These are contests, grants and fellowships for writers of fiction, nonfiction, poetry, translators, journalists, playwrights, and for student writers. Prizes range from $25 to $54,000… – S. Kalekar The Howard Foundation Fellowships These are funds for rotating disciplines. For the 2020-21 cycle, the fields are fiction, poetry, and playwriting and theatre studies. These fellowships are…

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10 Short Story Publishers Seeking Submissions ($50 to $360 Per Story)

October 22, 2019

These outlets publish fiction, and the payment ranges from $50 to $360. A few also accept other genres, like non-fiction and poetry. – S. Kalekar Cirsova Their tagline is ‘Magazine of Thrilling Adventure and Daring Suspense’. They’re looking for a range of stories, including raygun romance, sword & planet, space cops, Raymond Chandler but in…

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10 Publishers Paying Writers $300+ Per Article

October 22, 2019

Writers! Every week we find publications that pay writers, write short descriptions of them, and send the opportunities to our readers. This week, we’ve found quite a few such publications. Here are eight of ten of them, covering a wide variety of topics. If you don’t know how to approach these publishers, please read this…

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5 Magazines & Sites that Pay $1+ Per Word

October 22, 2019

As I’ve written about previously, the freelance writing market has started to mature online, and there are now more opportunities for decent pay than ever. This week, we’ve found five more publications that pay $1 per word or more, with most of them being online publications. If you’re not sure about how to pitch these…

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8 Blogs and Websites Paying Writers $50+ Per Post

October 22, 2019

The rise of online publications has grown recently, with more and more publishers working directly with freelance writers to produce quality content. At Freedom With Writing, we find those publishers, research their payment rates, find their submission guidelines, and share them with our readers every single week. This week, we’ve found eight such websites for…

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How to Use Twitter to Earn $1 Per Word

October 18, 2019

Twitter can be an incredibly powerful tool for freelance writers, but it can also be difficult to use. This article will help clear the confusion, to give you straightforward steps for using Twitter to land quality writing jobs. Here’s the opportunity: Editors of magazines and blogs regularly use Twitter to post calls for pitches or…

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The Pitch Routine that Gets You Published (And Keeps You Sane)

October 8, 2019

By Arianna Meschia Congratulations – you just got your first piece of freelance writing commissioned! Now what? You’ve spent hours and days learning the ropes of querying, you can craft an enticing pitch that will make it impossible for the editor to resist your originality and writing flare. You’ve gone as far as getting your…

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