Calls For Pitches
Our listings feature the magazines and websites that want YOU to write for them.
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Freelance Writers | Chatelaine
Chatelaine is Canada’s biggest, best women’s magazine. They say they've been delivering all the content Canadian women want, for over 80 years, whether it’s about health, current events, food, social issues, decor or fashion and beauty.
Freelance Writers | Audubon
Audubon magazine uses explanatory and advocacy journalism, as well as stunning original photography and illustration, to celebrate the joy and wonder of birds and to inform its readers about the natural world, inspire them to care passionately about that world, and motivate them to take action on its behalf.
Freelance Writers | AFAR
AFAR publishes a range of reported features, personal essays, photo essays, and shorter middle-of-the-book pieces about travel. Instead of more traditional aspirational lifestyle travel stories, we tell the stories of places and the people who live there. They only publish 4 times a year so plan ahead.
Freelance Writers | High Country News
High Country News covers the Western parts of the US. They are looking for pitches for features, reportage, essays, analysis, news and opinion, photography and art.
Freelance Writers | Glamour
You'll typically be doing testing and writing product reviews. Check them out. They review a very wide variety of products.
Freelance Writers | lovePROPERTY
You'll be brimming with great ideas and excited to tell compelling stories using great photography.
Editor Breaks Down Their Idea Of A Great Pitch
I came across this post on X/Twitter, courtesy of James Durston’s weekly newsletter “What Editors Want”. In the post, an editor breaks down a pitch from a travel writer and explains why it’s so good. Definitely worth a read.
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