21 Calls for Pitches Directly from Editors

Here’s our latest roundup of calls for pitches directly from editors. We’ve researched payment rates and found contact information for all of these publications, so you can easily connect with the right opportunity for you.

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Bloomberg Businessweek Magazine is Hiring a Freelance Copy Editor

Bloomberg Businessweek magazine is seeking a Freelance Copy Editor with a minimum of 5 years’ newsroom copy editing experience. The selected applicant will be responsible for making sure each story is sharp, accurate, and compelling. This full-time contract role will be based in New York, NY. The salary range will be $45 to $50 per hour. For details, refer to this job description.

FOX News Media is Seeking a Freelance Associate Producer/Writer, Outnumbered

FOX News Media is looking for a Freelance Associate Producer/Writer, Outnumbered. The selected applicant will be responsible for writing compelling and conversational copy across a broad range of news topics. The applicant should have a minimum of 3+ years’ major market newsroom experience. This is a full-time short-term assignment. Location: New York, NY. Rate: $28.85 to $33.66 per hour. Details here.

This Magazine is Seeking Pitches

This Magazine is a Canadian progressive magazine of politics, arts, and culture. They’re looking for pitches for news pieces, features, columns, and back page letters. They only publish work by Canadian residents and pay $150-$300 for features and $60-$100 for columns. For more information, refer to their post and this page.

Girls Who Eat is Hiring a Freelance Brand Copywriter

Girls Who Eat is “the trusted resource for all things non-toxic living.” They’re seeking a Freelance Brand Copywriter with “deep ingredient knowledge and a passion for non-toxic living to help write and edit copy across newsletters, branded and tentpole campaigns, Substack Notes, social content, and web-based content.” The role is remote (US or Canada) and part-time (about 30 to 40 hours per month). To learn more, refer to their founder and CEO’s post and this form.

Open Secrets is Seeking Personal Essays that Explore Transformative, Powerful Human Experiences

Open Secrets is an online magazine that publishes memorable and revealing personal essays on the topics we are taught to keep “secret.” They’re seeking original, unpublished personal essays (1,000 to 2,500 words) that “explore transformative, powerful human experiences, especially those that are often kept secret or hidden.” Rate is $50 per essay. For details, refer to their post and call for submissions.

The Markup is Looking for Stories on the Impact of Misinformation on Immigrant Communities

The Markup is an American nonprofit newsroom that investigates technology's impact on our society. As part of their “Languages of Misinformation” series, they’re looking for pitches for stories about how misinformation impacts immigrant communities, particularly non-native English speakers, in the US. They pay $1 per word based on the estimated word count. If interested, send your pitches to misinfo-pitches@themarkup.org. Please note that this call for pitches is open for all of 2024. For details, refer to this post and this page.

Dialogue Earth is Seeking Pitches for Visual Climate Migration Stories from South Asia

Dialogue Earth is “an independent non-profit dedicated to producing exceptional environmental journalism and informed conversations on urgent climate and sustainability topics.” They’re seeking pitches for “multimedia articles exploring climate migration in South Asia, with preference for stories covering Nepal, Bangladesh, India, or Pakistan.” They will pay $1,000 per article. To learn more, refer to this page.

Planetizen is Always Seeking Feature Articles

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 looking for 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, send your pitches to editor@planetizen.com. For more information, refer to their post and this page.

Bee Culture is Looking for Articles

Bee Culture is “the Magazine of American Beekeeping.” They cover “beekeeping – its history, how-to-do everything beekeeping covers, equipment used and made, and even the humorous side of this craft.” They have “a constant demand for articles on bees and beekeeping, pollination and honey plants, garden and forest management for bees, and a wide variety of related topics.” They generally run 15 to 16 articles per issue and about a third to half of them are submitted by outside writers. Rates begin at $50 for articles that include photos. To learn more, refer to their writer’s guidelines.

Southwest Contemporary is Seeking Pitches for Spring-Summer 2026 Print Issue

Southwest Contemporary is “the leading resource for contemporary arts and culture in the Southwest.” They’re accepting pitches for their Spring-Summer 2026 print issue, themed “The Road.” They want to “explore The Road as idea, as function, as experience, as connecting space and sinew.” They’re “interested in highlighting artists who are examining roads materially and conceptually—from time-honored trails to soaring concrete cathedrals of freeway overpasses.” Rates range from $100 to $500 per piece. To learn more, refer to this page.

City A.M. is Looking for Pitches

City A.M. is London’s financial and business newspaper. Their deputy life & style editor & travel editor is looking for pitches. “Best to think offbeat/zany cultural takes, not too worthy.” Pay is 30p/word for multi-voice pieces. If interested, send your pitches to adam.bloodworth@cityam.com. To learn more, refer to their editor’s post and their ‘about’ page.

The U.S. Sun is Seeking a Homepage Editor (Freelance)

The U.S. Sun is seeking a Homepage Editor for full-time freelance shifts (Monday to Friday) in their Midtown Manhattan newsroom. The applicant should have at least 3 years’ journalism experience, with a proven background in editing. Hours: 8 am to 5 pm (with one-hour lunch). Pay: $250 per shift. Details here.

Fox News Digital is Seeking a Part-Time Freelance Reporter, US and Crime

Fox News Digital is looking for a Part-Time Freelance Reporter, US and Crime. The selected candidate will be “responsible for original, enterprise and investigative reporting.” The candidate should have 3+ years of professional newsroom experience. This is a remote role, paying $36 to $44 per hour. To learn more, refer to this job description.

Havenly Brands is Hiring a Freelance Copywriter

Havenly Brands is “the modern destination for all things home.” They’re seeking a Freelance Copywriter (~30–40 hours a week). The selected applicant will be responsible for maintaining brand consistency and driving engagement through clear and compelling copy across various channels. The applicant should have 5+ years of experience. This is a remote (US) role, paying approximately $35 per hour. For details, refer to this job description.

The Big Idea is Open for Submissions

The Big Idea is “the largest and leading online resource for the arts in New Zealand.” They’re open for submissions from both experienced and emerging writers. They publish long and short-form articles covering “news, events, people, places, and concerns in the arts sectors.” Their focus is “exclusively on the arts in Aotearoa or New Zealand artists.” At the moment, they’re commissioning stories in the following columns:

- Pathfinders (800 to 1,200 words)

- Road Trip (800 to 1,200 words)

- Soapbox (800 to 1,200 words)

- Feature (up to 2,500 words)

- News (up to 1,200 words)

- Arts Smarts

Pay is about 30 cents a word. If interested, send your pitches to editor@thebigidea.co.nz. To learn more, refer to their post and this page.

The National Survivor User Network is Seeking Blog Pitches

The National Survivor User Network (NSUN) is “a membership organisation of people and grassroots groups with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress, and trauma.” They’re accepting blog pitches on an ongoing basis from “NSUN members (individuals with lived experience of mental ill-health, distress, or trauma as well as user-led groups).” They welcome pitches on topics related to NSUN’s work. This could include:

“- Mad liberation and mental health justice 

- Social justice and mental health

- UK mental health and disability policy

- The work of grassroots and user-led mental health groups”

They pay £150 per blog (500 to 1,000 words). To learn more, refer to their post and submission guidelines.

The Nonprofit Quarterly is Seeking Submissions for WE STOOD UP Column

The Nonprofit Quarterly (NPQ) is a nonprofit print and digital magazine that educates the nonprofit sector through research-based articles and resources. They’re looking for 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. For more details, refer to their post and call for pitches.

Planetizen is Always Accepting Feature Articles

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. To learn more, refer to their post and this page.

This Magazine is Seeking Pitches

This Magazine is a Canadian progressive magazine of politics, arts, and culture. They’re looking for pitches for news pieces, features, columns, and back page letters. They only publish work by Canadian residents and pay $150-$300 for features and $60-$100 for columns. To learn more, refer to their post and this page.

Cake Zine is Looking for Pitches for a Special Issue

Cake Zine is an independent print magazine that explores society through sweets. They’re seeking pitches for their one-off special issue, Steak Zine. They’re interested in “exploring the cultural impact of red meat and the classic steakhouse, and looking for unexpected non-fiction stories that expansively take on steak.” Rates are $125 to $175 for shorter pieces (350 words or less), poems, and recipes; $200 for mid-length (500 to 1,000 words); and $300 for longform (2,000 words - plus or minus). For more information, refer to their post and call for pitches.

Contingent Magazine is Seeking Pitches for their December Issue, “A Time of Monsters”

Contingent Magazine is a history magazine. They’re seeking pitches for their deluxe December issue, “A Time of Monsters.” They’re looking for essays (800 to 1,500 words) that “offer historical perspectives on monsters in any geographic or temporal context.” They’re “eager to publish stories that are specific, surprising, and engage with primary sources.” Compensation is $300. To learn more, refer to their post and this page.

Publicis Health is Looking for Freelance Copywriters

Publicis Health, the health and wellness vertical of Publicis Groupe, is looking for Freelance Copywriters. The selected applicants will be responsible for supporting branded, unbranded, and disease awareness campaigns across their healthcare and pharmaceutical agency teams. Location: Remote/Hybrid. Compensation: $32.11 to $57.91 per hour. To learn more, refer to this job description.

The Deadlands is Open to Nonfiction Submissions on All Things Death

The Deadlands is a speculative fiction magazine. They’re currently open to nonfiction submissions. They want critical, academic, and personal essays (1,000 to 4,000 words) on all things death. Rate is $100 per essay. To learn more, refer to their post and this page.

 

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