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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Thanks to Fatima Saif for compiling this list.
The Food Section is Seeking Contributors
The Food Section is a newsletter providing food and drink coverage across the American South. They’re actively looking for freelance contributors. They pay $1058.16 per feature story (about 1,200 words). For more information, refer to their founder’s post and their guidelines for journalists.
Crikey is Always Accepting Pitches
Crikey is an Australian website and newsletter that offers news, commentary, and analysis on politics, world affairs, business, society, culture, and technology. Their deputy editor is always accepting pitches for news, analysis, opinions, and investigations. Pay is $300 per article (600 to 800 words). Pitches should be sent to jcallil@crikey.com.au. To read their deputy editor’s post, click here. To read their submission guidelines, click here.
Guardian US is Looking for Pitches
Guardian US is a website that covers American and international news. Their head of narrative is seeking “researched pitches for long form narratives [an arc! a story! characters! intrigue!]; essays [searing, searching, funny]; stories about gray areas and hard choices; people that give us hope; a sense of place.” As per this post, they pay $1 per word. To learn more, refer to this post and their website.
Bolts is Seeking Pitches
Bolts is “a digital magazine that covers the nuts and bolts of power and political change, from the local up.” They’re always seeking freelancers to report on stories related to voting rights and criminal justice across the US. Most of the stories they publish involve original reporting. They offer a default rate of $800 for such stories. If interested, email your pitches to pitches@boltsmag.org. For details, refer to their post and this page.
Public Books’ TV Section Editor is Looking for Pitches
Public Books is “an online magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship.” Their TV section editor is accepting pitches. They pay $150 per piece. If interested, direct your pitches to srkessle@usc.edu. To learn more, refer to their TV section editor’s post and their submission guidelines.
Oregon Humanities Magazine is Seeking Feature Pitches
Oregon Humanities Magazine is a triannual publication that “connects Oregonians to ideas that change lives and transform communities.” They’re looking for feature pitches from Oregon writers for their spring 2025 issue. The theme of the issue is “Bloom.” They’re seeking “stories about flourishing, blossoming, openness, and growth.” They pay $750-$1,500 per feature (1,500-4,000 words). For more information, refer to their editor’s post and their call for submissions.
Deadline: December 16th, 2024
Condé Nast Traveler is Seeking Travel Writers
Condé Nast Traveler is a travel magazine by Condé Nast. Their editor is seeking:
– Freelance travel writers who “live in or are extremely familiar with Myrtle Beach.” Rate is $0.50 per word.
– Freelance travel writers who are “extremely familiar with Santa Barbara hotels.” Rate is $0.50 per word.
If interested, email your clips/past work to jamie_spain@condenast.com as soon as possible. Details here and here.
The Metropole is Accepting Pitches
The Metropole is the Urban History Association’s official blog. They’re accepting pitches for their February and March themes:
“The Metropole is accepting pitches for its February theme on The Celluloid City: cities and film all aspects from depictions of cities to the policies cities enact to attract more filmmaking.” Rate is $200. Deadline to submit pitches is 15 December.
“The Metropole is taking pitches on March theme, The City Aquatic: cities & water, cities across archipelagos, cities & rising sea levels/flooding, cities & drinking water, cities & water related tourism, etc.” Rate is $200. Deadline to submit pitches is 10 February.”
To learn more, refer to their post and submission guidelines.
Deadline: December 15th, 2024
Business Insider is Seeking Essays about Family Vacation
Business Insider covers business, personal finance, tech, lifestyle, politics, and more. Their deputy editor is seeking “essays about your best or worst family vacation and why.” They usually pay $250 per piece. If interested, send your pitches to cpreti@insider.com. To read their deputy editor’s post, click here. To visit their contact page, click here.
SFGATE is Looking for Freelance Pitches
SFGATE is a digital publication that covers news and entertainment from the Bay Area and beyond. They’re seeking freelance pitches. They pay $200 to $400+ per piece. To learn more, refer to this post. To contact them, refer to this page.
Type Investigations is Open for Pitches
Type Investigations is a nonprofit investigative newsroom. They’re accepting pitches for 2025. They’re particularly interested in pitches on these topics:
– “The erosion of rights”
– “Political influence and corporate malfeasance”
– “Climate change and environmental justice”
The above list is not exhaustive. Their written features are generally 3,000-5,000 words and pay $3,000-$6,000 (including travel, reporting expense, and reporting fee). For details, refer to their post and pitch guide.
Condé Nast Traveler is Seeking Writers who are Familiar with Punta Cana / Puerto Vallarta Hotels
Condé Nast Traveler is a travel magazine by Condé Nast. Their editor is seeking “freelance travel writers with a lot of familiarity and experience with Punta Cana or Puerto Vallarta hotels.” Rate is $0.50 per word. If interested, send your clips/past work as soon as possible to jamie_spain@condenast.com. To read their editor’s post, click here. To learn more about them, click here.
Islamic Horizons is Looking for Pitches and Writers
Islamic Horizons is the flagship publication of the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). Their assistant editor is looking for pitches and writers for specific stories. They’re seeking:
– “A Muslim woman to write about how abortion bans/lack of access to reproductive health care affects Muslim American women.”
– “A writer, Muslim or otherwise, to write about how undocumented Muslims are preparing for a second Trump term.”
– “A writer to cover how incarcerated Muslims celebrate Ramadan behind bars and the unique challenges they face.”
Pay is $0.20/word up to 1,500 words. This opportunity is only for US and Canada-based writers. If interested, email bareerah.zafar@isna.net. To learn more, refer to their assistant editor’s post and their website.
North American Congress on Latin America is Seeking Pitches
North American Congress on Latin America (NACLA) is a quarterly magazine and online publication that covers “political and economic issues in Latin America and the Caribbean.” They’re seeking pitches for the issue on “sites of knowledge production in Central America and the diaspora.” Rates range from $100 to $200 per piece. To learn more, refer to their post and call for pitches.
Deadline: December 13th, 2024
Inspire the Mind is Seeking Mental Health-Related Pitches
Inspire the Mind is a digital magazine focused on mental health, art, and science. For World Cancer Day (February 2025), they’re seeking “article pitches from a mental health lived experience perspective.” They pay £200 for articles of 1,000 to 1,200 words. To learn more, refer to their post. To submit your pitch, use the form on their homepage.
Deadline: December 15th, 2024
Sound Fields is Seeking Pitches
Sound Fields is “a publication and community event series founded in 2023 that is dedicated to the art of audio documentary in theory and practice.” They’re looking for pitches for their second issue which will “explore the idea of the archive in audio documentary.” They will pay an honorarium of $400 for essays (1,500 to 2,000 words or less) and $200 for Q and As/conversations (written/transcribed). To learn more, refer to their post and this page.
Deadline: December 15th, 2024
Open Secrets is Looking for Personal Essays
Open Secrets is an online magazine that publishes memorable and revealing personal essays on the topics we are taught to keep “secret.” They’re looking for unpublished personal essays of 1,000 to 2,000 words. The essays can be about “work, relationships, parenting and family, health, grief, LGBTQIA+ life, finances, identity, and our relationship with our belongings.” Rate is $50 per essay. To learn more, refer to their post and writing guidelines.
Deadline: December 31st, 2024
SECWP is Looking for Stories on Whistleblowing and Whistleblowers
The Southeast Europe Coalition on Whistleblower Protection (SECWP) is seeking pitches for “fresh journalistic stories on whistleblowing and whistleblowers in the following countries: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Greece, Hungary, Kosovo, Moldova, Montenegro, North Macedonia, Romania, Serbia, Slovakia, Slovenia and Ukraine.” They will pay $500 per article. To learn more, refer to their post and call for stories.
Deadline: December 31st, 2024