{"id":13359,"date":"2026-10-27T13:33:17","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T20:33:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/?p=13359"},"modified":"2026-10-27T13:33:19","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T20:33:19","slug":"10-publications-that-pay-for-writing-about-parenting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/uncategorized\/10-publications-that-pay-for-writing-about-parenting\/","title":{"rendered":"10 Publications that Pay for Writing About Parenting"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

From national magazines to regional family guides, here are 10 parenting publications in the Litworth markets database that pay freelance writers and charge no submission fees.<\/p>\n

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  1. PDX Parent<\/a><\/strong> is a Portland parenting magazine and website covering family activities, and it accepts pitches from Pacific Northwest writers. According to its guidelines, it pays $400\u2013$450 for print features, $250 for shorter features and $100 for web articles.<\/li>\n
  2. Bay Area Parent<\/a><\/strong> covers parenting news and family life for San Francisco Bay Area families and wants stories with a strong local angle. According to its writers’ guidelines, pay is typically 25 cents per word for departments and features.<\/li>\n
  3. CharlottesvilleFamily<\/a><\/strong> is Central Virginia’s parenting magazine, covering education, health, dining, recreation and local resources for families. It pays $75\u2013$250 for commissioned articles and $50\u2013$75 for reprints.<\/li>\n
  4. Chesapeake Family<\/a><\/strong> is a free monthly parenting magazine for Maryland’s Chesapeake region that looks for useful, locally sourced features, columns and regional travel stories. It pays $75\u2013$200 for assigned articles and about $35 for reprints.<\/li>\n
  5. Focus on the Family Magazine<\/a><\/strong> covers marriage and parenting from a Christian point of view and runs ongoing calls for short submissions from North American writers. Its current calls pay $75\u2013$150 on acceptance.<\/li>\n
  6. Alaska Parent<\/a><\/strong> is an all-in-one parenting resource for Alaska families that follows an editorial calendar. It pays $40\u2013$45 for short pieces, $50\u2013$200 for longer articles, $45 for short first-person parenting pieces and $35\u2013$40 for reprints.<\/li>\n
  7. Chicago Parent<\/a><\/strong> is a parenting news magazine with a local focus that seeks writers from the Chicago area. It pays $25\u2013$50 for short articles, $50\u2013$100 for reader essays, and from $100 for features.<\/li>\n
  8. The Green Parent<\/a><\/strong> is a UK magazine about natural parenting and green family living that publishes features and short opinion pieces. It pays \u00a375 per 1,000 words.<\/li>\n
  9. Family Traveller<\/a><\/strong> is a U.K.-born family travel brand whose U.S. website and magazine share advice for traveling with children. It pays $50 per online post, and magazine pieces are paid per word.<\/li>\n
  10. Washington FAMILY<\/a><\/strong> is a resource for Washington, D.C.-area parents covering parenting tips, camps, schools and local events. It pays an average of $50 for one-time reprint rights to feature stories.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    From national magazines to regional family guides, here are 10 parenting publications in the Litworth markets database that pay freelance writers and charge no submission fees. PDX Parent is a Portland parenting magazine and website covering family activities, and it accepts pitches from Pacific Northwest writers. According to its guidelines, it pays $400\u2013$450 for print…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13359","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13359","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13359"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13359\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13360,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13359\/revisions\/13360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13359"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13359"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.freedomwithwriting.com\/freedom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13359"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}