This playwriting award is for all women who consider themselves emerging playwrights (as distinct from fledgling or mid-career playwrights). Eligibility does not require that a submitted work adhere to the traditional three-act structure. One-acts, two-acts (even four-, five-, six- acts), monologues, adaptations, and any other wild (or deceptively tame) format will be considered with equal…

By Shireen Hakim As a freelance writer, I often learn about gigs by following and pitching editors and publications on Twitter.  However, an arbitrary reply to an Audobon magazine associate editor’s tweet led me to my best-paying gig yet. At first, I started out on Twitter for the same reason the rest of us writers…

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Next Show All These markets pay $50-180 for fiction – deadlines are coming up, or they will open shortly for submissions. Some of them also accept other genres, like poetry and non-fiction. Also check out this list of markets paying $150-540 for short stories. — S. Kalekar Split Lip Magazine This is a “voice-driven literary…

Next Show All As part of our weekly research, here are fifteen magazines, blogs, and websites that accept pitches directly from freelance writers. We’ve found payment rates and submission guidelines for most of these publishers. (Thank you, Fatima Saif!) For a huge list of 954 publishers, get your free copy of The Paid Publishing Guidebook…

The American Journal of Nursing includes a personal essay in each issue covering any aspect of nursing, health, or health care. They pay $150 per published essay. The word limit is 850 words. According to their call for submissions: The Reflections essay (850-word limit), which appears each month inside the back cover of AJN, is…

About two years ago, I got the feeling that I needed a change. I needed to do something that scared me. After nearly 13 years in a corporate job doing employee communications for a large hospital system, I decided to take the leap. I became a freelance writer. I started ramping up my online presence,…