Lore is “a space for editorial photography and original stories that challenge how we see culture, identity, and belonging.” They’re open for pitches for their 4th print issue:

“In this issue, the theme is CLUB. We want articles and listicles about belonging, connection, sex, drugs, access, community—or something else entirely. You might trace a personal history about hookup culture, teach us how to throw DIY raves, or take us through how Club Penguin changed your life. We’re taking a broad read on the theme, so hit us with anything so long as there’s a club tie-in. (Tone-wise, we keep it lighter.)”

They’re seeking articles, listicles, and personal essays. They’re open to other formats as well, but those are the big ones they want. Pay is $75 CAD for all articles and listicles. If interested, send your pitches to hello@loremagazine.world. To learn more, refer to their post.

The Kitchn is Apartment Therapy Media’s food website. They’re seeking pitches from freelance shopping writers:

“I’m looking for insightful, unexpected, and/or absolutely delicious grocery and kitchen stories with a shopping angle to feature on The Kitchn in March.

Ideally, these would be reviews or reported features of the budget-friendly kitchen appliance or cookware everyone ought to own, the frozen food(s) you always buy online, the 1-ingredient upgrade you learned from a chef or working in a kitchen, or the unexpected organization/cleaning/etc trick you learned from your mom, just to name a few examples.”

Rates begin at $150 for a 300-word story. If interested, send your pitches to micki.wagner@thekitchn.com.” To learn more, refer to their shopping writer’s post. To contact them, refer to this page.

MIT Technology Review is a media company that explains the commercial, political, and social impact of the newest technologies. They’re looking for pitches for their upcoming print issue. The theme is Engineering: “Please note we cast a wide net with these themes. With Engineering, we can go in a lot of different directions. There could be stories of grand, large-scale projects all the way down to efforts to manipulate nature on the smallest scale. Stories about actively engineering situations, systems, or even societies. Whatever the idea, we’re looking for strong, inviting must-reads with clear top lines.” They’re seeking pitches for longer pieces: “narrative features, compelling investigations, essential profiles, and super-sharp essays.” While this pitch call is aimed at journalists, experts with strong ideas are also encouraged to reach out. Rates are $1 to $2 a word. To learn more, refer to their editor’s post and this page.

The Sask Dispatch is a Saskatchewan-focused news publication by Briarpatch Magazine. They’re accepting pitches for their Summer 2026 housing themed issue. For this issue, they're specifically seeking pieces looking at the state of housing in Saskatchewan. “Pieces on affordability and accessibility, on the role of government (of all levels) in ensuring residents have access to safe, secure, and affordable housing, and where things stands in terms of the rights of tenants are very welcome, as are any other perspectives on this issue.” Broadly, they're “always looking for pitches covering provincial and municipal elections, grassroots activism, Indigenous rights, arts and culture, economic justice, ecology, gender equity, harm reduction, and more.” They pay $100 for profiles, short essays, and reviews (less than 1,000 words); $200 for feature stories (1,000-1,500 words) and photo essays; and $300 for research-based articles and investigative reportage (1,500-2,000 words). For details, refer to their call for pitches.

Scalawag is a Black-led, woman-run website and magazine dedicated to the American South. They’re accepting pitches on Southern Black History. They’re looking for long and short-form essays, media reviews, poetry, art, photography, and short fiction submissions that cover:

“- Little or unknown Southern histories & cultural practices

- New perspectives on popular Southern historical events and history making individuals 

- Media Reviews of Southern Black history focused films, art and books

- Interviews with and profiles of contemporary Southern Black history makers, cultural preservationists and advocates

- Original Southern Black history focused digital art & photography”

Rates are $0.40 per word, with a 2,500-word limit for essays and fiction, and $300 for poetry. Send your pitches to pitches@scalawagmagazine.org. To read their post, click here. To visit their website, click here.

It's Freezing in LA! (IFLA!) is an independent magazine about climate change. They’re looking for pitches for their next issue. They’re seeking “articles, reviews, interviews, and creative writing on the theme of POWER as it relates to climate and the environment.” They urge writers to get creative with the theme and think outside the box for power-relevant ideas. Rate is £130 for articles of around 1,000 words. If interested, send your pitches to editor@itsfreezinginla.com. For details, refer to their post and general pitching guide.

Narratively is a media company that publishes original and untold human stories. They’re seeking stories for their next series: “a collection of true, deeply human stories about the moments, memories, and turning points that unfold in the outdoor spaces we tend, share, and live alongside — the backyards, fields, parks, and small patches of green that quietly shape our lives and communities.” This is a collaboration with their new partner ScottsMiracle-Gro, North America’s leading lawn and garden company, whose core belief is that “good can grow anywhere.” Together, they’re looking for “real stories, to be published this spring at Narratively.com and scottsmiraclegro.com, about how nature and green spaces bring people together, deepen connection, and shape identity, creativity, wellbeing, safety, and a sense of belonging.”

They’re commissioning 15 stories in a mix of formats:

- First-person or reported narratives

- Shortreads (up to 1,000 words)

- Longform features (1,000 to 3,000 words)

Rates start at $750. To learn more, refer to their call for submissions.

The Hot House 2026 writers development lab for scripted longform TV and feature film projects is open for applications:

“Part of Climate Spring’s writers development offering, and run in collaboration with BBC Writers and Film London, the 8-week lab supports screen writing talent in creating engaging and commercially viable climate stories for film and TV, while offering industry exposure and expert guidance.

Championing visions of a regenerative future, this year’s The Hot House focuses on inspiring world building stories and regenerative storyworld design. This brief has been chosen to help creatives craft stories that allow us to imagine, see and feel the future we’re fighting for.”

WHO IS ELIGIBLE?‍

“The Hot House 2026 is open to individual writers and writing partnerships. All applying writers must be over 18 and not in full time education, and must be resident in the UK.

Writers must have or have done at least one of the following:

- An agent.

- Have written a short film that has been screened at an Academy Award-qualifying short film festival or a BAFTA qualifying short film festival.

- Have written a stage play which has had at least a two week run in a theatre or festival, including fringe festivals.

- Have a writing credit for a produced feature film or TV series.”

They will select six projects for the development lab. Each will receive £2,000 for their time on redrafting their synopsis, following feedback from judges. To learn more, refer to this post and this page.

QueerAF is “a platform funding queer creatives and changing the media.” For this Black History Month, they’re looking for 4 early talent, emerging, unpublished or marginalized Black LGBTQIA+ journalists to write 500-word think pieces, using their Queer Gaze format. The theme is Standing Firm in Power and Pride. Pay is £75.

They’re running a two-stage process to pick the writers. The first deadline is September 28th, and the second is October 5th 2025. Send your pitch by the first deadline to have the best chance. To learn more, refer to their post and this page.

Sixty Inches from Center is a non-profit arts publication and archiving initiative that promotes art and writing in Chicago and the Midwest. They’re looking for “pitches in languages beyond English, especially Spanish (with priority to Puerto Rican & Central American vernacular), Southeast Asian languages, Native languages, and Polish.” “What do we mean by bilingual? You can either publish an article written in bilingual (for ex. Spanglish) or you can also write a full article in English and translate the article into your respective language (for ex. Portuguese & English). So far Sixty has published Oneida, Traditional Chinese, Hindi, Gujarati, French, and Portuguese, and we want to continue to represent the many languages spoken across the Midwest.” Rate is $150 per article. To learn more, refer to their post and this page.

Streets.mn is a site that “fosters positive connections and inclusive conversations about better places in Minnesota.” They’re looking for writers, storytellers, photographers to research and write articles for Minnesota Historical Society grant:

“The grant seeks to deepen our community reporting on highway development and how the named highways have impacted the communities they are built through.

There are four topic areas we are seeking story ideas for, but we’re open to others you may have in mind, as long as they are highways built through a city or area since the 1950s in suburban and Greater Minnesota that have not had significant coverage.

- U.S. Route 14 between New Ulm and Rochester

- State Highway 36 to Stillwater

- State Highway 3 through Northfield

- U.S. Route 52 through West St. Paul”

Pay is $1,000 per project, to be split between the storyteller and photographer. To learn more, refer to their post and this page.

Make Writing Your Job is a resource for "high-paying freelance writing jobs, pitch calls, and grants." Their co-founder is seeking personal essays about “the first time someone paid you to write.” Rate is $1/word for 500 words. To learn more, refer to their co-founder’s post and their ‘about’ page.

Youth Music is the United Kingdom's leading young people's music charity. They’re commissioning features from young Black writers (18 to 30) for Black History Month. Fee is £150. To learn more, refer to this page.

MIT Technology Review is a media company that explains the commercial, political, and social impact of the newest technologies. For their upcoming print issue, they’re looking for pitches on the theme of Crime. They’re seeking longer pieces: “narrative features, compelling investigations, essential profiles, and super-sharp essays.” While this pitch call is aimed at journalists, experts with strong ideas are also encouraged to reach out. Pay is $1 to $2 a word. For details, refer to their editor’s post and their pitch guide.

New Feeling is “a cooperative of music journalists and community enthusiastically covering the sounds across so-called Canada.” They’re looking to work with more writers located in so-called Canada! They “like people-centred stories, and ones that bring attention to community-wide issues.” They “like stories about artists in so-called Canada outside Toronto/Montreal/Vancouver, and stories that have a point of view.” Rate is $200 for reported features/artist profiles (up to 1,500 words). If interested, email your pitches to newfeelingcoop@gmail.com. To learn more, refer to their post and pitch guide.

New Lines is an American magazine that features best writing from around the globe. Their North Africa editor is seeking pitches for two verticals to run in November, December and January: “As ever, I'm looking for hard-hitting & enlightening reportage that touches on topics & places traditional outlets ignore. My primary beat is NORTH & FRANCOPHONE WEST AFRICA. This round I’m especially interested in stories from Algeria, Morocco, Burkina Faso, Mali & Mauritania." "I’m also looking for pitches for Spotlight, a newsletter about underreported news & cultural trends from around the world. These short (~1500-1800 word) pieces tackle the upswell of ideas/events before they go mainstream, or they untangle a hot topic in a new and fascinating way.” Rates are $600 for a spotlight and $800 for regular essays. If interested, send your pitches to ebrown@newlinesmag.com. To learn more, refer to their editor’s post and their general pitch guide.

Mental Floss is a media brand that offers interesting facts, quizzes, trivia, and brain teasers to the audience. They’re always seeking new voices to write about the diverse verticals they cover, “whether that's history, science, entertainment, language, pop culture, art, or beyond.” Their rates start at $150 for lists, $125 for short features (500 words), and $200 for longer features (800 to 1,500 words). To learn how to pitch them, click here.

The Nonprofit Quarterly (NPQ) is a nonprofit print and digital magazine that educates the nonprofit sector through research-based articles and resources. They’re seeking submissions for their WE STOOD UP column: “We Stood Up offers workers, builders, & organizers the opportunity to share a first-person story from their work & world. If you would like to share a story about how you participated in organizing a more just workplace, please send your submission to NPQ.” They welcome submissions of approximately 500 words. Payment is $300 per accepted contribution. To learn more, refer to their post and call for pitches.

Voquent is “a global voice acting agency and production studio supporting hardworking freelancers.” They’re seeking pitches: “Voquent is looking for UK-based film, TV, and video game writers and critics to produce features, opinion pieces, and interviews on voice acting and voiceover. If you write about film, TV or video games and are fascinated by how voice brings characters to life, this is your chance to produce analytical, insightful, and engaging content for a global audience passionate about the art of voice performance.” Their standard rate is 10p/word (£100 for 1,000 words). To learn more, refer to their post and this page.

Compute!'s Gazette is an computer magazine that was originally published from 1983 to 1995. They have recently relaunched and are seeking a couple people interested in contributing Commodore Amiga articles or ideas to the magazine. They pay $0.10/word and aim for 1,000 to 2,000-word articles from their contributors. To learn more, refer to this post and their website.