Compiled By H. Lovelyn Bettison The following is a list of 30 magazines, newspapers, and websites that pay for personal essays. Included is a wide variety of publishers, covering many specialties and topics. For even more publishers seeking submissions, grab a copy of the Paid Publishing Guidebook. The Boston Globe The Boston Globe accepts personal…
The following is a list blogs and websites that pay $100 per post. Keep in mind that you’ll need to send pitches to each of these magazines. Writing Launch recently hosted a webinar all about pitching. Watch the Replay Here. 1. 101 Holidays is a travel website based in the UK. They publish travel articles…
The following is a list of 5 short story publishers currently seeking submissions. All of these publishers have upcoming deadlines in January. All of them pay their authors. Payment rates vary, from a maximum of $210 to $1,060. 1. Crystal Lake Publishing is currently seeking submissions for Tales from the Lake: Volume 4. They want…
The following is a list of magazines that pay writers $225 or more per article. Keep in mind that you’ll need to send pitches to each of these magazines. Writing Launch offers the Bulletproof Pitching System, a 4 week course on pitching magazines, blogs, websites, etc. 1. Life In A Kilt Magazine publishes lifestyle articles…
Cast of Wonders is a podcast that features short stories for a young adult audience, think Harry Potter, or the Hunger Games. They pay $.06 cents per word, up to 6,000 words. That works out to a max of $360. According to their submission guidelines: “We prefer high fantasy — elves, dragons, secondary worlds, and…
The Whitehill prize offers $2,500 for the best unpublished essay on early American History, with a preference for New England. According to their submission guidelines: “This prize of two thousand five hundred dollars, established in memory of Walter Muir Whitehill, for many years Editor of Publications for the Colonial Society and the moving force behind…
Writers! Here’s a list of over 100 magazines that pay up to $300 per article – or more per article. Yes, this is a big list, but it just scratches the surface, in terms of the number of publishers available. If you’re not sure how to take advantage of these opportunities, your next step should…