Dear Writers,<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The world of online writing has changed dramatically in the past few \nyears. It used to be hard to find very many websites and blogs that paid\n hundreds of dollars for your writing; now there are many.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Here is a wide variety of sites that pay up to $200 or more for the writing they publish.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
If you want to learn how to take full advantage of these opportunities, I highly recommend this free webinar. Watch it now.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Sincerely,<\/p>\n\n\n\n Jacob Jans<\/p>\n\n\n\n Longreads<\/strong> is a blog from the company behind WordPress, the software which powers over 25% of the internet. Base pay is $500 per essay. Payment is determined by the amount of work. They also pay for features, at a higher rate, competitive with large publications. To learn more, visit their submission guidelines page.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Nothing to Say<\/strong> is \u201ca place where some artists write about things they care about.\u201d They welcome submissions from artists of all backgrounds, especially those that belong to racial, ethnic, gender, or sexual minorities. They pay $200 for an essay of 1,500 to 2,000 words. For more information, visit this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n On Parenting<\/strong> is a parenting blog of Washington Post. They are looking for pieces with an interesting angle to parenting. They welcome reported pieces and personal essays. They want the pieces to be no more than 1,200 words long. Payment reports suggest that they pay up to $2.50 per word. According to one of our readers, expect no more than $300 total. To learn more, refer to this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Wild Lot Press<\/strong> is a publisher and residency program that focuses on \u201cthe curious gray areas between the natural world and civilization, and the influence of the wild on people, characters, and the creative process.\u201d They are looking for pitches for essays, photo essays, book reviews, and interviews. They pay up to $250 for essays. They pay $150 for photo essays, $50 for book reviews, and $50 for interviews. To learn more, visit this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Color Bloq<\/strong> is a platform for queer and trans people of color. They are \u201cbuilding a safe media space online, and safe community spaces offline.\u201d They pay up to $500 for nonfiction articles\/ essays of 1,200 to 2,000 words. They pay $200 for personal essays of 600 to 800 words. They pay $300 to the writer and $100 stipend to the artist for visual artist features. To learn more, refer to this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Solver Stories<\/strong> is a feature in New York Times\u2019 column, Wordplay. It includes personal essays regarding the effect of puzzles on people\u2019s lives. They prefer essays of 800 to 1,300 words. They pay $200 per essay. To find out more, read their submission guidelines<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Kill Your Darlings<\/strong> is an online magazine that is dedicated to arts and culture. In November 2019, they are shining a spotlight on writing from Aotearoa New Zealand. They are looking for \u201cwriters from, living in or with a significant personal connection to New Zealand.\u201d They are \u201cparticularly keen to hear from M\u0101ori, Pasifika, and other non-P\u0101keh\u0101 voices, as well as writers living outside Auckland and Wellington.\u201d They are seeking essay\/commentary (short 1,000 to 1,500 words, or long 1,500 to 3,000 words), memoir or personal essay (1,000 to 1,500 words), cultural criticism (1,000 to 1,500 words), and short fiction (1,500 to 3,000 words). They pay at least A$250 per piece. The deadline for submission is September 30, 2019. For details, visit this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n ZEAL<\/strong> is a blog that publishes writing on comics, games, and pop culture. They also publish original comics. They are “interested in writing on games that are not generally the target of serious criticism; games that are too weird, too bad, too forgotten, and too anime. ” They even publish “revisionist fan-fiction.” They pay up to $100 per article, and up to $200 per comic. To learn more, read their submission guidelines.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Arts and Culture Texas<\/strong> is a website focused on the visual and performing arts and their effect on life and lives in Texas. They publish feature articles, reviews, interviews, think pieces, and more. According to one payment report, they paid $200 for a reported story of 850 words. To contact them, refer to this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Art Jewelry Forum <\/strong>(AJF) is a nonprofit organization that is a leading platform for critical thinking on contemporary jewelry. They are accepting proposals for articles and reviews. They pay $100 for shorter essays (about 500 to 1,000 words), $200 to $250 for longer reviews and articles (about 1,000 to 2,500 words), and $300 for research projects (about 2,500 to 5,000 words). To submit content, visit this page<\/a>. To view their website standards, visit this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Two Plus Two<\/strong> is an online website about poker. They publish technical articles about playing poker, as well as interviews and biographies of poker personalities. They pay $200 per published article. To learn more, read their submission guidelines.<\/a> Money After Graduation Inc. <\/strong>is a financial literacy website that is dedicated to helping young professionals \u201cpay off debt, save money, and invest in the stock market.\u201d They are always seeking more Canadian personal finance writers. The writers \u201cmust have good understanding of TFSA\/RRSP, investing, and general idea of SEO.\u201d They are especially seeking writers in their late 20\u2019s in Canada\u2019s urban centres. They start pay at $200 per article (around 1,000 words). To learn more, refer to this Twitter thread<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Credium<\/strong> is \u201can investment platform built around trading bots specialised in crypto assets.\u201d They are seeking evergreen content in long-form for their blog. They want in-depth pieces of 4,000 words with an image-to-word ratio of about 1 image to 250 words. They will pay $250 per article. To learn more, refer to this page<\/a>. The American Interest<\/strong> is a bi-monthly magazine that focuses on American policy, politics, and culture. They welcome submissions of feature essays and book\/film reviews. According to one payment report, they paid $200 for a blog post of 2,000 words. To learn more, refer to this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nova Scotia Advocate<\/strong> is a website that provides grassroots news on Nova Scotia. They are always looking for writers. They cover poverty, racism, ableism, all kinds of unfairnesses, labor, environment, and art. They pay up to $200 per story, and even more depending on its complexity and the experience of the writer. For details, visit this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Daily Yonder<\/strong> is a website for people living in the rural U.S. They cover “health, employment, broadband access, education, and economic development.” One payment report indicates a $200 payment for an investigative article. To learn more, refer to this page.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Crikey<\/strong> is an Australian news website that covers politics, government, business, technology, media, culture, language, arts, and sports. They publish analysis, reportage and humor writing. The average length of their freelance articles is 700 words. They pay a minimum of $200 per article. To learn more, visit this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n LAist<\/strong> is a website about Los Angeles and everything that happens in it. They are looking for stories of all kinds, \u201cfrom breaking news to movie reviews to everything in between.\u201d They pay $150 to $200 per story depending on its length and complexity. To learn more, refer to this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n New Naratif<\/strong> is a multimedia website focused on Southeast Asian journalism, research, and art. They are looking for \u201ccontent that is evidence-based, rich in context, and grounded.\u201d They pay $200 for text (about 1,500 words for journalism, and 3,000 to 6,000 words for research articles) and $50 per photo (maximum 2 photos per piece). Details here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n The Points Guy<\/strong> (TPG) is a travel website and blog that offers aviation news, travel advice, reviews, guides, deal alerts, and more. One payment report indicates payment of $300 for a 1,000-word blog post. To contact them, refer to this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Travel Writer’s Life<\/strong> is a web site managed by the Great Escape Publishing. Editors want material to show readers \u201chow to enjoy a life of travel, adventure, creativity and freedom \u2013 and earn a good living.\u201d They do not publish traditional travel pieces but look for articles on \u201cthe craft of getting paid to travel\u201d through different venues (e.g., photography, writing, or leading tours). Regular contributors are professional writers\/photographers making a living by selling their travel articles and\/or photos. Editors buy all rights to articles and non-exclusive unlimited use rights to images. They also retain the right to publish articles or photos in any of their affiliated publications and online. Payment is $50-$75 for assigned articles for the website, $100-$150 for interviews and personal stories, and $150-$200 for articles with specific income advice. To learn more, read writers\u2019 guidelines: http:\/\/www.thetravelwriterslife.com\/writers-guidelines\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Nomadic Matt<\/strong> is a website that offers daily tips on \u201chow to travel the world cheaper, smarter, and longer.\u201d They are looking for posts of 1,000 to 2,000 words on LGBT, Africa, Middle East, Central Asia, India, China, and technology. They pay $250 per post. For details, visit this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Smarter Travel<\/strong> publishes slideshows and feature length stories on a”range of consumer travel topics, including booking strategies, saving money, avoiding scams, packing tips, best places to go, travel tech, travel trends, and travel tips that represent all kinds of travelers and travel experiences.” They pay $500 for long-form articles and $100 to $250 for shorter posts. To learn more, read their submission guidelines.<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n From Day One<\/strong> is a website and conference series that focuses on \u201cinnovative ways for companies to forge stronger relationships with their employees, customers, and community.\u201d They are looking for story pitches from freelance journalists. They pay $200 to $300 per story (800 to 1,000 words). To learn more, visit this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The Freshbooks Blog<\/strong> informs readers and viewers about accounting, taxes, and other financial essentials. They do accept writers to regularly contribute to their blog. They pay $200 per post, and up if you can negotiate successfully. Their submission portal can be reached here<\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Revive Social Blog<\/strong> provides top-level advice to social media marketers. They are looking for how-to posts that focus on a particular aspect of social media. If the quality of the article is up to par, writers can earn $100 to $200 per article. For details, visit this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Income Diary<\/strong> covers topics such as creating websites, online marketing, and social media. They pay up to $200 per article. Their submission guidelines has a helpful list of topics they’re interested in, as well as past articles that have been successful for them. To learn more, read their submission guidelines.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Smart Business Trends<\/strong> is a blog that covers \u201cthe latest trends in online marketing, including email marketing, WordPress, and Amazon FBA.\u201d They pay $100 to $200 for well-researched tutorials, product reviews and case studies. To learn more, refer to this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Compose<\/strong> publishes informational articles about databases for their blog the Write Stuff. They\u2019re looking for philosophical, practical pieces on database concepts. For each article, they pay $200 cash and $200 in Compose database credits. To learn more, read their submission guidelines.<\/a> <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n 1&1 IONOS Developer Center<\/strong> is a \u201cCloud computing community website for DevOps and Cloud Developer professionals and 1&1 IONOS users.\u201d They are looking for tutorials that convey technical topics in simple and easy to understand ways. They pay up to $200 for a tutorial. To learn more, visit this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Couchbase<\/strong> is a company that offers NoSQL database technology. They pay for articles to be published on their blog. Payment is $200. Their submission guidelines suggest a list of topics. To learn more, read their submission guidelines.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Plesk<\/strong> is the \u201cleading WebOps platform to run, automate and grow applications, websites and hosting businesses.\u201d They are looking for tutorials, tips, guides, industry insights, trend observations and case studies. They pay $50 to $200 per article. To learn more, refer to this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Clubhouse<\/strong> is a \u201cproject management platform for software development that brings everyone on every team together to build better products.\u201d They are seeking a broad spectrum of content for software developers and engineers. For a how-to\/tutorial, the payment is $400 (with working code examples, it is $600). For a blog post, the payment is $350. To learn more, refer to this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Dataquest<\/strong> blog features tutorials and articles on data science, data engineering, and data analysis. They have a monthly readership of over 100,000. They are seeking \u201cdata science projects with something interesting to say.\u201d They pay $150 for the first project that they publish, $250 for projects 2-4, and $300 for projects after that. To learn more, refer to this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Postmark<\/strong> blog is a blog by Postmark (a transactional email service). They want \u201ctutorials that cover broad topics related to transactional email such as delivery, reputation, design, tools, and testing, as well as tutorials for using Postmark with specific languages and systems such as Python, Rails, Laravel, Node, and so on.\u201d They pay $200 to $300 per tutorial, depending on its complexity. To learn more, visit this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n GitLab<\/strong> is \u201can open core company which develops software for the software development lifecycle used by more than 100,000 organizations.\u201d They are looking for high-quality tutorials and stories for their blog. They pay up to $200 per post. To learn more, visit this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Elegant Themes<\/strong> builds \u201cbeautiful premium WordPress themes coupled with advanced functionality and awesome support.\u201d They are looking for tutorials, case studies, in-depth guides, and evidence-based opinion pieces for their blog. Their ideal word-count is 1,000 to 1,500 words. They pay a flat rate of $250 per article. For details, visit this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n MFractor<\/strong> is a \u201cproductivity tool for Visual Studio Mac.\u201d They are looking for technical content about Xamarin, including \u201cbeginner tutorials, deep dives into the latest Xamarin developments and MFractor how-tos.\u201d They pay $250 AUD for a blog post. To learn more, refer to this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Auth0<\/strong> provides a \u201cuniversal authentication & authorization platform for web, mobile and legacy applications.\u201d They are looking for technical articles for their blog. The technical articles should show readers how to get things done using new technologies like Java, Ruby on Rails, Python, Node, ASP.NET Core, Go, Modern JS, and Authentication. They pay up to $300 per article. To learn more, visit this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Software Testing Help<\/strong> (STH) is a software testing blog. They want tutorials on any topic that would be of help to quality assurance testers. They usually pay $200 to $600 for a tutorial. To learn more, refer to this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n CircleCI<\/strong> is a continuous integration and delivery platform that helps software teams release quality code, faster. They allow freelancers to write on topics of their own choice. They pay $300 per accepted blog post (1,500 to 2,500 words). For more information, refer to this page<\/a>. Geekflare<\/strong> is a tech blog that provides articles focused on cloud computing, web security, hosting, blogging, development, and middleware. They are seeking experienced professional writers for how-to, configuration, troubleshooting, and product information articles. They typically pay $60 to $250 per article. For details, refer to this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Top Bug Net<\/strong> is a tech blog that discusses Open Source, Server Operations, Emacs, GNU\/Linux, Python, and C\/C++. They are accepting guest posts. They pay $50 to $500 for guest posts to US residents only. For further information, visit this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Pixlr Blog<\/strong> features content about \u201cmobile photography, graphic design, and anything else that feels like it fits.\u201d They pay $200 per post. They pay higher rates for in-depth, tutorial-style content. To pitch them an idea, visit this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Harvard Medical School CME Online<\/strong> is a \u201clearning center for postgraduate online medical education.\u201d They are accepting guest posts from credentialed health care professionals for their two blogs, Trends in Medicine and Lean Forward. The posts should be at least 400 words long. They pay $200 per post. To learn more, refer to this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Write Naked<\/strong> is a writing blog focused on the \u201cwriting life cut open.\u201d They accept queries for guest posts that discuss the freelance writing life, from publishing trends to a day in the life of a writer. They pay $50 per guest post; however, if they are \u201cparticularly impressed\u201d with a post, they\u2019ll pay $200. To learn more, read their submission guidelines.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Coastal Review Online<\/strong> is a daily online publication published by the N.C. Coastal Federation. It covers environmental and conservation events and issues along the N.C. coast, the history and culture of the coast, \u201cgreen\u201d travel stories, and profiles of noteworthy people. Editors buy first-time serial rights (including the right to publish the material on the CRO website and archive the material indefinitely on the site). Payment is <\/em>$75-$200 for 800-2,000-word articles. To learn more, read the submissions guidelines: https:\/\/www.coastalreview.org\/about\/submissions\/write-cro\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n CyberAngler<\/strong> is a website \u201cby fishermen for fishermen.\u201d They publish \u201cdaily fishing reports by premier captains, fishing guides directory, tournaments, articles, tips, techniques and more.\u201d According to their website, feature articles should be at least 1,500 words long, while other articles can be shorter. They pay $20 to $200 per work depending on the quality and nature of it. For details, refer to this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Eat Your World<\/strong> is an online guide to regional foods and drinks around the world. For original articles for their blog, they pay $25 to $40. For destination guides (with high-quality photos), they pay $300 to $500. To learn more, refer to this page<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n UBER Driver Things<\/strong> is a blog and community where UBER and LYFT drivers get the latest rideshare tips, tricks, news, and opportunities. They are seeking experienced drivers (with a minimum of 3 months of paid driving experience) who can \u201coffer advice, guides, their take on interesting topics, current events and personal experiences as it pertains to driving for a living.\u201d They pay $75 to $200 per article. For details, visit this page<\/a>. Dear Writers, The world of online writing has changed dramatically in the past few years. It used to be hard to find very many websites and blogs that paid hundreds of dollars for your writing; now there are many. 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