£10,000 Writing Fellowship, Open Worldwide

March 14, 2019

The Alpine Fellowship is a group of writers who seek to understand others, including opposing viewpoints, and diverse voices. They host an annual symposium that brings together writers from around the world. This year, they’ll be hosting a symposium in Switzerland; the setting looks amazing. The theme of this year will be “identity.” This year…

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How I Went from Less than a Penny Per Word to $500 for 1,000 Words.

March 14, 2019

By Caleb Kentai Growing, up, writing was always a fun affair. I could whip words into paragraphs at a pretty young age. I could crank up a blistering op-ed in high school, good enough to win me several writing competitions, and the admiration of my friends. In college, I was the go-to writer because I …

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10 Calls for Short Stories: $50 to $360 Per Story

March 12, 2019

These fiction markets pay $50-360 for short stories, and a few of them accept other genres also, like non-fiction and poetry. Also see this list of fiction markets paying $100-500 – deadlines are coming up quickly. – S. Kalekar Speculative City: Occult The magazine publishes “provocative works that are centered within a cityscape.” They want…

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13 Blogs and Magazines that Pay Writers

March 12, 2019

Here are 13 publishers that pay writers for articles on a variety of topics, including fashion, music, pop culture, Christianity, and regional events. We’ve researched payment rates for all of these publishers, and found contact information for their editors, as well as submission guidelines. Most of the blogs listed here pay around $50 per guest…

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Get Paid to Write Personal Essays for BuzzFeed

March 12, 2019

READER, the digital home for BuzzFeed News’s personal essays, cultural criticism, fiction, and poetry, accepts submissions from freelance writers. This is not the typical “clickbait” BuzzFeed. They focus on longform articles, with thoughtful premises and quality writing. Not that they don’t have an element of that attention-grabbing style BuzzFeed is known for –– but it…

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12 Themed Calls for Submissions (Non-Fiction, Essays, Etc)

March 8, 2019

Next Show All These are themed non-fiction submission calls for magazines and websites. There are 16 themes with upcoming deadlines for the 12 markets listed here, including Glamour, Summer, Great Cities of the World (Laos, Nigeria), Smoking, Adventure, American Food Heroes, Aging Well, Hospitality, and Eat Global, Stay Local. Apart from features, they have several…

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11 Themed Calls for Short Stories that Pay $100 to $500

March 5, 2019

These markets pay $100-500 for fiction – deadlines are approaching quickly. A few are also open for other genres, like comics, essays, creative non-fiction, and poetry. – S. Kalekar Shenandoah ­­­­­This literary magazine, part of Washington & Lee University’s English Department, publishes stories, essays, creative non-fiction, excerpts of novels in progress, poems, comics, and translations…

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