Dear Writers,
Here’s our latest research on publishers that accept submissions directly from freelance writers. We’ve researched payment rates and found editorial contact information to make it easy for you to connect with the right publishers for your work.
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Jacob Jans
Editor
Thank you to Fatima Saif for her research on this article.
Launcher is a section in The Washington Post that covers video games and esports. They are seeking “original reporting — features, profiles, reported analysis and more.” They “want reported stories that reveal some kind of tension.” Target length: 1,000-1,200 words. Pay: $300. To learn how to pitch stories to them, visit this page.
Amendo offers creative, engaging, and thoughtful content on community, spirituality, living a meaningful life, relationships, and career for people in their 20s. They are always seeking new writers. They want 500-word essays, fun listicles, and longer magazine style features. They pay $75 for a 500 to 600 word piece. To learn more, refer to this Tweet and this page.
Contently is “a technology company that helps brands create great content at scale.” To help freelancers during the coronavirus pandemic, they have decided to frontload their freelance content budget for The Content Strategist (Contently’s publication about content strategy and content marketing). This will allow them to accept more freelance work. They will pay a flat rate of $500 for a story. They will pay $300 for Q&As (published occasionally). For details, visit this page.
The Shoestring is a web magazine that covers culture and politics in Western Mass. They are accepting pitches. Pitches that feature “themes of food/environmental justice, housing rights, organizing with & by societally marginalized groups or deep dives into local history are extra welcome.” They pay $50 per piece (600 to 1,000 words). They pay over $100 for more time consuming investigative pieces and deep dives. Pitches should be sent to theshoestringmag@gmail.com. To learn more, refer to their Tweet and their website.
InStyle is the leading website for celebrity style. They are seeking pitches for their Trust Me column. They want pitches about a new show you’re binge-watching that is bafflingly underrated. They are open to all forms of media including movies, books, podcasts, and YouTube channels. Payment reports indicate that they pay $0.20 per word. Send pitches to sam.reed@meredith.com. For details, refer to their senior editor’s Tweet. To contact them, refer to this page.
UX Writers Collective offers online courses in user experience writing. They are looking for guest posts related to UX writing or content design for their blog. They pay $100 per article. Send pitches to blog@uxwriterscollective.com. Read their co-founder’s Tweet here and their blog here.
The Media Co-op is “a coast-to-coast network of local media co-operatives dedicated to providing grassroots, democratic coverage of their communities and of Canada.” They are “interested in everything from rent strikes & community responses, to what’s happening at man camps, to landback, & more.” They pay $100 to $200 for articles and other media (e.g. audio and video reports). Send pitches to info@mediacoop.ca. To learn more, refer to this Tweet and this page.
Increment is a quarterly “print and digital magazine about how teams build and operate software systems at scale.” Each issue of the magazine focuses on a new theme. They welcome pitches from writers. Right now, they are especially interested in APIs. According to one payment report, they paid $1.00 per word for a 3,000-word piece. Read their Tweet here. Pitch them a story here.
