MIT Technology Review is a media company that explains the commercial, political, and social impact of the newest technologies. They’re seeking pitches for their upcoming print issue: The Impossible Issue.  

“The idea is to focus on some of the biggest goals and promises of our age and look at the hurdles that still remain. Think fusion. Room-temperature superconductors. Living to 150. Completely eliminating car accidents.”

“We’re looking for big swings: narrative features, essential profiles, and sharp reported essays to go in the feature well of the magazine. The initial deadline for pitches is Friday May 22.”

Rates are $1-$2 per word. Details here and here.

Women With Disabilities ACT is a systemic advocacy and peer support organization in ACT region, Australia. They’re accepting submissions for the second issue of their yearly magazine, Chronic Mischief, as part of the ‘Our Autonomy’ Project. They’re inviting both new and experienced writers and artists to contribute. They’re looking for “unpublished work by women, non-binary, and gender diverse people with disabilities, with a strong focus on entries from people living in the Canberra region and surrounds.” They will pay an honorarium of $100 to contributors. For more information, refer to their post and submission guidelines.

Tolka is “a biannual literary journal of non-fiction: publishing essays, reportage, travel writing, auto-fiction, individual stories and the writing that flows in between.” They’re open for submissions. They publish work by both Irish and international writers. Their guideline word count for work is 1,000 to 3,000 words. They offer a flat fee of ‎‎€600. To learn more, refer to their post and submission page.

Exhume is “a new online publication championing scholarly-informed, accessible long-form criticism and analysis of Australian literature written by new and emerging researchers.” They publish contributions of 3,000 to 4,000 words by current HDR students and ECRs from across Australia and are particularly interested in highlighting regional perspectives. They’re currently accepting pitches for Issue 2. The theme is resonance. They encourage “contributions to consider how Australian texts or authors resonate on a personal, public, and/or academic level.” Pay is $300 per piece. If interested, send your pitches to exhume.lit@gmail.com. To learn more, refer to their call for submissions.

Good Tape is “a bicoastal magazine and creative studio elevating cultural and critical coverage of the podcast industry.” They’re accepting pitches for written and visual content for Issue 04: The Chemistry Issue:

“For issue 04, we’re acknowledging something we’ve felt pulsating through every story we’ve covered since we started: chemistry. Behind every artistic endeavor, creators interact, combine, and reorganize to spark something new. Podcasting is no different. From the scientific to the sultry, we’re interested in the bonds that hold projects together, the experiments that push them forward, and the circumstances that can just as easily pull them apart. What makes a collaboration click or combust? Does chemistry have to be organic, or can it be crafted? Where does it arise in unexpected ways?”

For written content, rates are $175-$1,050 for digital and $250-$1,500 for print. To learn more, refer to their call for pitches.

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.

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.  

Fox News Digital is seeking a Part-Time Freelance Reporter, US and Crime. The applicant should have 3+ years of professional newsroom experience, as well as experience covering crime, courts, and investigations. The job is remote. The pay range is $30 to $44 per hour. To learn more, refer to this page.

The Motley Fool is a financial and investing advice company. They’re seeking a Freelance Writer/Stock Analyst. The selected applicant will collaborate with editors to produce insightful stock analysis (their articles typically range from 600 to 800 words). This position is 100% remote, with a pay range of $50 to $150 per article. For more information, click here.

CBSNews.com is seeking a Freelance Senior Editor. The selected candidate will “write and edit content for the website across a wide range of topics, including politics, health, crime and entertainment.” Rate is $55 per hour. To learn more, refer to this job description.

Green European Journal is a political ecology magazine. They’re seeking pitches for their next print edition which will explore Europe’s new demographic reality. They’re looking for essays, interviews, photo essays, graphic journalism, comics, and more. Below are some topics and angles you could cover:

- Demographic adaptation

- Cultural divides and representation

- Movement of people

- The reactionary tide

- Global, technological, geopolitical aspects

According to a post by their editor-in-chief, rates are usually €300-€400. Find more details here and here.

A global leader in animal health—dedicated to advancing care for dogs, cats, horses, cattle, and livestock through innovative vaccines, medicines, and diagnostics—is looking for a Freelance Copywriter to support their Petcare and Livestock portfolios. The selected applicant will “play a critical part in ensuring marketing materials are compliant, accurate, and aligned with brand and regulatory standards that support the health and well-being of animals worldwide.” The applicant should have 3+ years’ work experience with Adobe Creative Suite and 2+ years’ copywriting experience. This is a remote, 10 to 20 hour per week freelance opportunity. The pay rate is $20 to $25 per hour. For details, click here.

Planetizen is “a fiercely independent platform that creates, curates, and amplifies stories and resources to inform planning and people passionate about planning.” They’re always seeking feature article pitches that offer an expert lens to the key planning issues of today. They offer professional writers a flat rate of $500 for a feature or career-related article. If interested, email your pitches to editor@planetizen.com. For more information, refer to their post and this page.

The Stacks is “a blog for writing on unconventional games and software, their surrounding material, and the ongoing process of documenting history.” They’re open for pitches and are seeking writing on “obscure games history, art history, sex/gender, and more.” Rates are $50 CAD for shorter essays/articles of approximately 600-1,000 words and up to $150 CAD for larger scale research essays/articles/projects of approximately 2,000 words or more. Rates are higher for very large research essays/articles/projects of approximately 4,000 words or more. If interested, send your pitches to contact@thestacks.ca. For details, refer to this post and their submissions page.

Live Science covers groundbreaking developments in science, technology, space, health, environment, and history. They’re always open to pitches, but next month, their health vertical will be in particular need of news pitches. Rates are $250 to $400 for news stories. To learn more, refer to their health channel editor’s post and their 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.

The Republic is “a Nigerian publication committed to rigorous, reflective and forward-looking journalism about Nigeria and wider African diaspora.” They’re accepting pitches for their next issue themed 'Nigeria in the World.' They’re interested in “stories that examine how Nigeria performs on the global stage and how that performance reverberates internally, in policy choices, electoral politics, economic priorities, civil liberties, and popular imagination.” Rate is $150 to $350 per accepted story. To learn more, refer to their post and call for pitches.

National Geographic’s editor is looking for pitches: “As always, I’m open to health pitches that challenge what we think we know. Surprise me with strong science, a clear ‘why now,’ and fresh reporting. If it makes readers see their bodies or the world differently, lmk.”

They’re interested in the following:

- “A new or newly synthesized body of research”

- “A smart angle on a long-running scientific debate”

- “A study that complicates conventional wisdom”

Pay is around $1 per word. If interested, send your pitches to starlight.williams@natgeo.com. To read their editor’s post, click here. To visit their website, click here.