Dear Writers,

Here’s our latest roundup of calls for writers — directly from editors, covering a wide variety of themes and topics.

Please carefully study the publication before contacting the editor. When writing your pitch, be sure to:

• Carefully study the publication, to get a sense of their style
• Have a clear idea of where you proposed article will fit into the publication
• Have a clear sense of the publication’s general schedule
• Have a clear sense of who the publication’s audience is
• Choose just one idea to pitch — and make sure it closely fits the publication’s needs
• Write a short pitch (no more than 200 words)

— Jacob Jans

Thanks to Fatima Saif for compiling this list.

Well+Good covers fitness, cutting-edge nutrition, natural beauty, travel, and more. Their deputy editor has tweeted, “It’s almost Earth Month, and I’m looking for a few pitches for Well+Good—sustainability and well-being, along with micro vs macro actions, all come to mind.” Rates start at $200. Pitches should be sent to samantha.leal@wellandgood.com. Read their deputy editor’s Tweet here and their pitching guidelines here.

The editor of Sunday Mirror and Sunday People is seeking “non-Ukraine pitches – real life, investigations, scams, cost of living, new books that can be turned into features, uplifting stories.” They pay £300 to £1,000 per feature. If interested, email alex.lloyd@reachplc.com. To learn more, refer to this Tweet. To contact them, refer to this page.

Gayming Magazine is a publication for the LGBTQ+ video games community. Their editor-in-chief has tweeted, “Upcomer employees who were laid off (and freelancers in general), we’re constantly looking for a queer twist on esport related features.” According to a previous Tweet, their op-eds and small reviews pay £50, features and bigger reviews pay £100, and profiles and large features pay £150 to £200. If interested, get in touch with their editor at aimee@grayjonesmedia.com. To read their editor-in-chief’s Tweet, click here. To visit their website, click here.

Bob Vila is a source for information on home improvement, home renovation, and home repair. They are seeking freelancers to write buying guides. They want experts in all home and garden categories.  They are currently looking to assign guides on grills, bird products, lawn care, and more. Pay is $250-$600+. If interested, email samantha.matt@recurrent.io. To learn more, refer to this Tweet. To contact them, refer to this page.

Trail Runner Magazine is an off-road running magazine. Their editor has tweeted, “Send me a compelling idea or off-beat story pitch about trails/foot travel in this time of loss, opportunity, & inflection. Tell me about the time you moved lightly through a landscape afoot & some encounter made you weep, made you dance, made you spit blood.” For digital pieces, their rates start at $200 and for print pieces, rates start at $0.25/word. For more information, refer to their editor’s Tweet and this page.

Anime Herald is a website that offers news, reviews, interviews, and commentary on anime and anime fandom. They are looking for pitches for articles. Rate is $50 per article (1,000 to 2,000 words). To learn more, refer to their Tweet and contributor guidelines. To submit your pitch, refer to this page.

The Muse is an online career platform. They cover careers and work. They are seeking freelance pitches for “reported features, essays, perspectives, even humor pieces (and yes, *some* advice articles) that shed light, provide insight, reframe, and capture zeitgeist at a moment when careers, work, and culture are shifting and evolving.” They would “love to see more ideas for reported features as well as pitches with day job–driven angles (and fewer on freelancing/why you went freelance).” They usually pay $300 to $600. Email your pitches to stav.ziv@themuse.com. To learn more, refer to their deputy editor’s Twitter thread and their ‘about’ page.

Wirecutter is a product review site owned by The New York Times Company. They are seeking freelancers, specifically full-time writers who have well-rounded DIY/consumer-level smart home experience. According to their pitch guide, shorter pieces typically pay $300. Rates for long-form reviews vary. Updates to existing reviews pay around $500 and new reviews or rewrites of existing reviews pay $1,500. To learn more, refer to their editor’s Tweet.

Fanfyte is Fanbyte’s wrestling section. Their editor has tweeted, “Tell you what—if you have a pitch on Scott Hall, broad or specific, something outside the style of an obituary, my email address is carrand@fanbyte.com.” They are not looking for personal essays. Rate is $75 to $200. For details, refer to their editor’s Twitter thread and their pitch guide.

Immerse is a publication (produced in partnership with the MIT Open DocLab) that sparks creative dialogue around emerging forms of non-fiction media (VR, XR, AR, video games, interactive media, and beyond). They are looking for pitches for their upcoming issue: “Avatars, Assets & Access.” They are “excited to probe through what it actually takes to build, get into, & pay for virtual worlds & objects.” Their standard fee is $250. They are looking for proposals for pieces of 1,200 to 1,500 words. For more information, refer to their Tweet and call for proposals.

Deadline: April 1st, 2022

HuffPost is a source for politics, entertainment, lifestyle tips, global issues, and personal stories. They are always seeking freelance pitches. Their rates start at $125. To learn more, refer to their Washington bureau chief’s Twitter thread and their pitch guide. If you’re interested in contributing to HuffPost Personal, read our interview with the editor here.

TransLash News and Narrative is a journalism and trans storytelling platform. They are “accepting article pitches for March supporting the theme Trans Bodies, Trans Choices to center the reproductive justice needs of TGNC people.” They are seeking “stories at the intersection of reproductive rights and body autonomy, race, childbirth, abortion, trans affirming medical care, and more.” Rate is $350 per piece (750 to 1,000 words). If interested, email your pitches to gabrielle@translash.org. To learn more, refer to this Twitter thread and their ‘about’ page.

Deadline: March 17th, 2022

Comment Magazine is “a magazine of public theology.” Their newly appointed associate editor is looking for pitches: “The types of pieces I’ll be seeking out and encouraging are in literature, the arts, cultural trends, theology, books, film, and the arts (as well as the non-profits and business that help support them).” They pay an average of $300 to $400 per piece. To learn more, refer to their associate editor’s Twitter thread and this page.

Minority Africa is a digital publication that reports on African minorities using data-driven multimedia journalism. Their associate editor is looking for a South African writer who has experience writing about sex work for an op-ed about the announcement of DOJ regarding the decriminalization of sex work in South Africa. Rate is $150. For more information, read their associate editor’s Tweet and their pitch guide.

The Progress Network is “a movement that speaks to a better future in a world dominated by voices that suggest a worse one.” They are looking for pitches. They have tweeted, “The cost of sequencing a full human genome has fallen rapidly. We’re curious about what it might mean for the future. Is that in your wheelhouse?” For something like a listicle, their rates start at $100. While for a long reported feature, their rates top out at about $1,000. Send your pitches to hello@theprogressnetwork.org. For details, read their Twitter thread and guidelines.

Slate is an online general-interest magazine that offers analysis and commentary on news, politics, business, culture, and technology. Their senior editor is looking for a POC / non-cismale freelancer to write on the movie, Turning Red. She doesn’t want reviews. Starting rate is $200. She is also seeking pitches on internet culture/fandom/music. To learn more, refer to their senior editor’s Twitter thread and their pitch guide.

Mangozine is a publication for emerging writers. They are accepting pitches and submissions for all kinds of writing. They are seeking personal essays, critical criticism, interviews, short fiction, reviews, reporting, radical political screeds, and unexpected recipes. Their pieces are generally 1,000-3,000 words. They pay at least $0.10/word. To learn more, refer to their Twitter thread, this page, and their pitch guide.

UKClimbing is a climbing and mountaineering website. They are looking for pitches from women. They are open to all kinds of ideas. Some ideas to start you off:

• “Our monthly Crag Notes series is ongoing, in which writers share a nature-rich snapshot of a favourite crag or local haunt
• So is Desert Island Peaks on UKHillwalking. Get involved!
• Destination Guides (worldwide) and ticklists (listicles of top-10 climbs, walks etc..
• Route Cards on UKH
• The usual broad-ranging UKC and UKH content: historical, social and cultural feature articles, interviews, essays, first-person pieces, opinion pieces, environmental stories, skills articles, creative pieces, poetry, humour pieces, longform ‘In Focus’ stories, journalistic explorations, science and tech stories.”

For short pieces, their rates start from £150. If interested, send your pitches to natalie@ukclimbing.com or dan@ukhillwalking.com. For more information, read their editor-in-chief’s Tweet and their call for pitches.

Sliced is a food and agriculture magazine. They are seeking pitches for their ninth issue— textiles. Some of the themes they are particularly interested in are: “smart / interactive fabrics; agro textiles and geo textiles; regenerative farming for the textile industry; how food / farm waste can be used in the fashion industry; bioplastics; silk production; indigo farming; whether sustainable alternatives will disrupt or reproduce exploitation in textiles and the fashion industry.” They pay CD$0.15/word for around 1,200 words. They welcome international and new writers. If interested, email editor@fedfedfed.com. There is no deadline for this issue. To read their Twitter thread, click here. To read their previous issues, click here.

Aislin Magazine is a print and digital magazine that showcases new as well as established talent in art, culture, fashion, and music. They are seeking freelance writers, photographers, and illustrators. They will pay $100 to $250. For details, refer to their Tweet and this page.

Matador Network is the largest independent travel publisher in the world. Their Sponcon editor has tweeted, “I’m looking for a travel writer to cover some Kissimmee, FL, content. Locals or ex-locals best, and the gayer you are, the better. $500, travel topics.” If interested, email jacqueline@matadornetwork.com. Read their editor’s Tweet here and learn more about them here.

Opportunity for a Freelance Writer with Marketing Experience: “We’re looking for a freelance writer starting in early April, but willing to wait for the right person. Pluses: Knowledge/experience of/in influencer marketing, B2B marketing, finding stories in data (not afraid spreadsheets), report/long-form writing, investigative approach HMU!” This initial project is about one week of work. They have tentatively set a budget of $2,000 for it. For more information, refer to this Twitter thread.

Talenthouse Media Foundry is a “platform that empowers game creatives to thrive independently.” They have tweeted, “Do you have any opinions focused on the industry side of things you want to share with the world, for money? Anything subjects you want to go on a bit of a deeper dive with? UI/UX design? Selling your game? Triple-A on an indie budget?” Pay is £150 to £400 per piece. If interested, email your pitches to ian.dransfield@talenthouse.com. To learn more, refer to this Tweet. To contact them, refer to this page.

Indiaspora is “a nonprofit of global Indian diaspora leaders serving as a force for good.” They are “looking to commission freelance writers in Canada, UK, UAE and Singapore for Indian diaspora-related feature articles.” Rate is $0.50 per word. If interested, contact rucha@indiaspora.org. To learn more, refer to this Tweet and their ‘about’ page.

The online editor of Al Jazeera English is accepting arts and culture pitches at keddiep@aljazeera.net. They pay $350 for features. To learn more, refer to their online editor’s Tweet and their pitch guide.

Paste Magazine covers music, movies, TV, video games, craft beer, books, and more. Their senior editor is seeking new contributors for their Travel section. Their standard rate is $100 for about 800 words. Send your pitches to garrett@pastemagazine.com. Read their senior editor’s Twitter thread here and contact them here.

The Brighton Seagull is a news site that covers Brighton’s news, life, and culture. They are “accepting pitch features on anything and everything to do with Brighton and Hove.” They pay up to £100 per article. Features should ideally be 600-1,500 words long. If interested, sign up to their contributor list here or email cm@volks.media. To learn more, refer to their editor’s Tweet and their pitch guide.

The Week is a US newsweekly. Their acting deputy editor is seeking argument-driven culture and entertainment pieces (800-1,100 words) hooked to “new movies/TV/books/music/controversies du jour, etc.” She is also seeking sports pieces. According to payment reports, they pay $0.25 per word. Send your pitches to weekpitches@futurenet.com. Read their acting deputy editor’s Twitter thread here and contact them here.

Motionbox is a video editing tool. Their CEO has tweeted, “I’m looking for good writers in the tech space to help with producing 2-3 articles per week. Topics are focused around educating the creator economy on how to enhance their video production using motionbox.io.” Rate is about $100 per article. To read their CEO’s Tweet, click here. To visit their website, click here.

Opportunity for Science Freelance Writers: “Calling all science freelance writers!!!! Looking to expand my pool of freelancers who are knowledgeable in scientific fields. It’ll be for mainly for e-commerce work, so think writing about science books, kits, online courses, microscopes, telescopes, all kinds of scopes.” Standard rate is £150/$200 per 1,000 words. If interested, email ian.stokes@futurenet.com. To learn more, refer to this Twitter thread.

Notion is a London-based quarterly music, fashion, and pop culture publication. Their digital editor is looking to commission opinion and topical pieces on “anything in the music, art, pop culture, etc fields.” Rate is £50. Send your pitches to aimee@notion.online. Read their digital editor’s Twitter thread here and contact them here.

New Scientist is a weekly science and technology magazine. Their features editor is looking to commission some features: “Big ideas in physical science and yarns about archaeology would be particularly welcome.” For a standard feature, they pay around £1,200. If interested, send your pitches to joshua.howgego@newscientist.com. Read their features editor’s Twitter thread here and their guide for freelancers here.