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Southlands is Looking for Pitches
Southlands is a new print journal exploring “the diverse ways Southerners connect with the natural world.” They’re looking for pitches for their debut issue. They will pay $250-$400 for the shorter, more essayistic pieces, and up to $1,500 for the heftiest features. Send your pitches to southlandspitches@gmail.com. For details, refer to this post and their contributor guidelines.
Business Insider is Seeking Feel-Good Essays
Business Insider covers business, personal finance, tech, lifestyle, politics, and more. Their editor is seeking feel-good essays about parenting, relationships, career, and life: “Did someone help you out when your toddler was having an epic tantrum? Did you fall in love like in the movies? Did you change careers and find your passion? Did you move for retirement and are loving it?” According to a previous post by this editor, they pay $250 per piece. If interested, email your pitches to cpreti@insider.com. To read their editor’s post, click here. To visit their contact page, click here.
Words of Mouth is Looking for Pitches
Words of Mouth is “a weekly newsletter sharing opportunities for professional and creative development across design, the arts, education, information, and the built environment.” They’re putting together an anthology to mark 10 years of the newsletter. The anthology will explore “the activity of looking for work through essays, interviews, and other text-based or visual ruminations.” They’re accepting pitches for this anthology and paying $350 per contribution. To learn more, refer to this post and this call for pitches.
Deadline: March 1st, 2025
Popverse is Seeking Feature Pitches
Popverse is a modern entertainment brand that covers TV, movies, comics, creators, and conventions. Their editor-in-chief is looking for “feature pitches from writers for Monster Hunter Wilds, The Ragpicker King, Assassin’s Creed: Shadows, and The Cartoonist Club.” They want personal stories, opinions, and interviews. Rates start at $150. To learn more, refer to their editor-in-chief’s post and this page.
Little White Lies’ Digital Editor is Always Commissioning
Little White Lies is a London-based bi-monthly film magazine. They cover mainstream as well as independent cinema from all over the world with high quality journalism and illustration. Their digital editor is always commissioning. Rate is 17p per word. Send your pitches to hannah@tcolondon.com. For details, refer to their digital editor’s post and their submission guidelines.
Public Books’ Higher Ed Editor is Looking for Pitches
Public Books is “an online magazine of ideas, arts, and scholarship.” Their higher ed editor is seeking pitches: “If you have something to get off your chest about higher ed, pitch me. Not looking for quick takes, but thoughtful scholarship and commentary that makes sense of our moment.” They’re also always seeking book reviews. As per a previous post by this editor, they usually pay $150 per piece. If interested, direct your pitches to dennis.m.hogan@gmail.com. To learn more, refer to their editor’s post and this page.
The Leicester Gazette is Always Accepting Pitches
The Leicester Gazette is a not-for-profit local newspaper in Leicester. They’re always accepting pitches. They’re seeking “investigations, solutions-focused features, news features, human-interest stories, arts and culture features, history features, voices (comment/opinion), photoessays, podcasts, fiction and poetry, and much more!” As they’re a local newspaper, the pieces should be about Leicester. Pay is 10p per word. For details, refer to their post and this page.
The Kitchn is Seeking Pitches from Freelance Grocery Writers
The Kitchn is Apartment Therapy Media’s food website. Their senior editor is seeking “new voices who have ingenious advice and strong opinions about the groceries we buy and the retailers we buy them from.” One area they’re interested in exploring right now is “the freezer aisle, and specifically frozen dinners and how they’ve changed (or not!) in 2025.” Rates begin at $150 for a 300-word story. Pitches should be sent to mara.weinraub@thekitchn.com. To read their senior editor’s post, click here. To visit their contact page, click here.
The Hearth Magazine is Accepting Pitches
The Hearth Magazine is a new bi-monthly TTRPG magazine. They’re accepting pitches starting March 3rd. They want to hear from “folks in the #RPGLatam, #RPGSEA, and #BIMPOC communities.” They pay 15 cents per word up to 1,000 words. If interested, send your pitches to thehearthmagazine@gmail.com. To learn more, refer to their post and this page.
Open Secrets is Seeking Personal Essays about Climate Change and Climate Issues
Open Secrets is an online magazine that publishes memorable and revealing personal essays on the topics we are taught to keep “secret.” They’re seeking unpublished personal essays (1,000 to 2,000 words) about climate change and climate issues. They will pay $50 per essay. For details, refer to their post and call for essays.
Deadline: May 31st, 2025
Trails is Seeking Backpacking Food Pitches
Trails is a quarterly, print-only magazine for “the backpacking and trail community.” They cover backpacking and other human or naturally-powered means of sleeping outdoors e.g. bikepacking, canoe camping, and even rafting or mountaineering. They’re seeking backpacking food pitches. Alignment with their threads of “efficiency” and “connection” is great, but not critical. They pay at least $0.50/word. If interested, email your pitches to stasia@trailsmag.net. To learn more, refer to their post and this page.
Bolts is Always Looking for Stories about Voting Rights and Criminal Justice
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. They mostly publish stories involving original reporting and offer a default rate of $800 per story. If interested, send your pitches to pitches@boltsmag.org. To learn more, refer to their post and this page.
Parapraxis is Seeking Pitches
Parapraxis is a print and online magazine of psychoanalysis. They’re actively looking for pitches for their Issue 07: Romance (Winter 2025) and un-themed website. Print rates range from $500 to $800 depending on length. Website rates are a flat $500. To learn more, refer to their post, pitch form, and ‘about’ page,
Skin Deep is Open for Pitches
Skin Deep is an organization making space for Black and POC creatives working for justice. They’re open for pitches and looking for “bold, fresh work that sits at the intersection of racial justice and culture.” They’re flexible about format and open to pitches for “first-person and opinion; reviews; interviews; creative writing; visual art; audio; deeply researched pieces and investigations; and experimental formats that push at the bounds of genre.” They pay £150 to £300 per piece. If interested, send your pitches to submissions@skindeepmag.com. For details, refer to their post and this page.
Restart is Looking for Pitches about GTA
Restart is a gaming news website. They’re seeking “pitches related to GTA 6 and the wider GTA franchise (think retrospectives, rankings, etc.).” Their average rate is $200. Pitches should be sent to hello@restart.run. To read their post, click here. To visit their website, click here.
Mars United Commerce is Seeking a Copywriter
Mars United Commerce, a global commerce marketing practice, is hiring a Copywriter. The successful candidate will “provide strategic creative recommendations that align with the client’s brand/retailer objectives and budget.” The candidate should have 2+ years’ shopper marketing/CPG copywriting experience. Familiarity with French language will be a plus. The role is full-time and located in New York, NY (hybrid). The compensation range is $50,000-$75,000. To learn more, refer to this job description.
Deadline: February 28th, 2025