Dear Writers,
Here’s our latest roundup of calls for pitches directly from editors and publishers.
Please be sure to carefully study the publications to make sure your idea closely fits their needs. When sending a pitch, please keep it short, concise, and clear. If you send an irrelevant pitch, it is likely to get ignored, so don’t waste your time! Be sure to write a good pitch, if you want to get published. 🙂 (Please note, I do offer pitch feedback via Writing Launch, but we’re not currently open to new students right now. We’ll be opening enrollment soon, though, so do keep an eye out in the next couple of weeks.)
— Jacob Jans
Thanks to Fatima Saif for compiling this list
Vice is a digital media and broadcasting company. Their newly appointed US editorial director is looking for life and culture pitches. Rates start at $0.50/word and are higher for features. If interested, email your pitches to amyrose.spiegel@vice.com. To read their editor’s Tweet, click here. To visit their website, click here.
Sierra Magazine is a print and digital magazine of the Sierra Club (an environmental organization). Their adventure + lifestyle editor is seeking pitches. She edits “adventure/lifestyle stories, including reported news pieces, first-person essays, profiles, and service stories. Most (but not all) stories focus on the US.”
She is excited to see more:
“-Nerdy deep dives into green gear topics (not gear guides, gimme the data)
-Surprising stories about people making positive change
-Diverse voices, sources, and perspectives
-Fire stories
-Star/dark sky stories
-Expansive understanding of what adventure can be”
Their digital rates are $350 to $450 and print rates are $1.00 to $1.50 per word. If interested, send your pitches to jennifer.smith@sierraclub.org. For more information, read their adventure + lifestyle editor’s Twitter thread and their editorial guidelines.
AFAR is a multi-platform travel media brand. For a series on Cayman Islands, they are seeking “stories about hotels, experiences, and local culture through the lens of ‘travel for good’ – sustainability, giving back, etc.” According to their pitching guidelines, rates start at $1/word for their magazine and $0.50/word for their website. If interested, DM their editor on Twitter or email nickhilden@gmail.com. To learn more, read their editor’s Tweets here and here.
Mic is a digital news company that caters to millennials. Their contributing editor is looking for pitches for their life/identity sections. They are looking for both features and timely stories which can be turned around quickly. Their features are usually 1,200-2,500 words, with rates beginning at $400 for short essays and $0.50/word for reported features. To learn more, refer to their contributing editor’s Twitter thread and their features pitch guide and series pitch guide.
Cosmopolitan UK is a women’s magazine for dating tips, sex advice, beauty tutorials, fashion trends, and celebrity news. Their sex and relationships editor for this month is seeking sex, dating, relationships, love and friendship pitches. They pay around £150 to £200 for features. Send your pitches to isabelle.aron@hearst.co.uk. To learn more, refer to their editor’s Tweet and their pitch guide.
Lonely Planet offers travel guides and information. They are looking for pitches, especially from historically marginalized groups including BIPOC writers and writers with disabilities. They are seeking daily stories – digital (1,000 words) and features – digital. They are also always looking to expand their pool of destination experts – print & digital. Their rate for daily stories is $400. Their starting rate for features is $0.60 per word. Their online rate for destination experts is $325 to $600 per article depending on length (900 to 1,200 words). To learn more, refer to this Tweet and their pitching guidelines.
Euronews is Europe’s leading international news channel. They are seeking freelance writers from around Europe to write features for their European affairs section. They usually pay €180 for 800-word features. Send your pitches to lauren.chadwick@euronews.com. To learn more, refer to this Tweet. To contact them, refer to this page.
photogénie is “a collaborative and fostering environment, a place where a diverse group of writers, through their participation in the Young Critics Workshop at Film Fest Gent, come together to discuss and celebrate film.” For their next issue, they are seeking pitches for essays that examine cinema’s recurrent grappling with “compromise” in all forms, including its aesthetics, politics, and histories. Rate is €225 per piece (1,500-2,000 words). Pitches should be sent to editorialboard@photogenie.be. Read their Tweet here. Learn more about them here.
Deadline: August 14th, 2022
Slate is an online general-interest magazine that offers analysis and commentary on news, politics, business, culture, and technology. Their business and technology editor is looking for pitches, especially business and economy pitches. Their starting rate is $200. If interested, send your pitches to jonathan.fischer@slate.com. To learn more, refer to their editor’s Tweet and their pitch guidelines.
Well+Good covers fitness, cutting-edge nutrition, natural beauty, travel, and more. They are looking to add experienced beauty writers who are 40+ to their stable of writers, particularly for product reviews. If interested, send your pitches or just your bio/link to your portfolio to zoe.weiner@wellandgood.com and/or gina.vaynshteyn@wellandgood.com. Their rates start at $200. For more information, refer to their deputy editor’s Twitter thread and their pitching guidelines.
Uppercut is a website that looks at games and other media through diverse and critical lenses. Their pitches for the month of August are open until Friday 5pm PT. They “prioritize critical work that provides an insight or angle on games that isn’t being talked about anywhere else.” They are also open to witty listicles or other creative ideas. They only accept 2 pitches a month. They pay $125/piece. Send your pitches to uppercutpitches@gmail.com. Read their Tweet here and their guidelines here.
Deadline: August 5th, 2022
Fanfyte is Fanbyte’s pro wrestling section. This is their last month for freelance contributions. They are looking for your weirdest, brightest, and most unexpected opinions about wrestling. According to their pitch guide, their listicles/interviews/reviews start at around $150 and features start at around $250. Essays and op-eds go for around $200. If interested, email your pitches about *anything* wrestling related to carrand@fanbyte.com. To read their Tweet, click here. To visit their website, click here.
Opportunity for a New Brunswick-based Writer: “I have an assignment for a New Brunswick-based writer. It’s 1,000 words and due on Aug. 18. We pay $0.40 per word.” If interested, email ken@myeastcoastexperience.com. To learn more, refer to this Tweet.
photogénie is “a collaborative and fostering environment, a place where a diverse group of writers, through their participation in the Young Critics Workshop at Film Fest Gent, come together to discuss and celebrate film.” For their next issue, they are seeking pitches for essays that examine cinema’s recurrent grappling with “compromise” in all forms, including its aesthetics, politics, and histories. Rate is €225 per piece (1,500-2,000 words). Pitches should be sent to editorialboard@photogenie.be. Read their Tweet here. Learn more about them here.
Deadline: August 14th, 2022
Balkan Investigative Reporting Network (BIRN) is “a network of non-governmental organisations promoting freedom of speech, human rights and democratic values in Southern and Eastern Europe.” BIRN is looking to “commission material about forced disappearances and mass graves in the former Yugoslavia as part of its online mass graves database project, Bitter Land, and for potential inclusion in a forthcoming book.” They are seeking feature stories, analysis pieces, opinion articles, original research, video and photo contributions, and artistic contributions. They will pay 150-250 euros for simple opinion pieces, 300-600 euros for features and analysis, and 1,000 euros for investigations. If interested, email applications@birnnetwork.org. To read their Tweet, click here. To read their call for contributions, click here.
Deadline: August 20th, 2022
Oregon Humanities Magazine is a triannual publication that “connects Oregonians to ideas that change lives and transform communities.” They are accepting nonfiction as well as completed drafts for their Fall/Winter issue themed “Underground.” They want to “hear stories about all things hidden and buried, as well as the things that literally and metaphorically lie beneath the surface.” They are “interested in myths of underworlds and abysses, covert movements past and present, and everything under our feet: earth, pipes, bones, worms, roots, and rock.” They encourage Oregon-based writers of all levels of experience to submit. Pay is $500 to $1,000 per piece. Read their Tweet here and their call for submissions here.
Deadline: August 20th, 2022
