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Unless a closing date is included, all the following are open to pitches.
Freelance Writers | Contractor Magazine
Contractor Magazine seeks contributions from industry professionals, targeting topics in plumbing, hydronic, and mechanical systems. Preferred submissions include case studies, best practices, thought leadership, news, product releases, and photo galleries. Articles typically range from 800 to 1,500 words, emphasizing practical insights, problem-solving, and industry trends.
Journalists and Storytellers | Longreads
Longreads is an online publication that focuses on long-form journalism, essays, profiles, interviews, and in-depth storytelling. They are known for publishing high-quality, narrative-driven content across a wide range of topics.
They accept pitches for reported stories, personal essays, memoirs, profiles, interviews, and critical essays.
Freelance Writers | Asterisk Magazine
Asterisk Magazine is a quarterly publication exploring complex topics with transparency and a strong emphasis on critical inquiry. They seek submissions that address meaningful issues with clear reasoning and openness to uncertainty.
Foodies and Travel Writers | Foodism
Foodism is a Toronto-based magazine that celebrates the city's vibrant food and drink scene. The publication focuses on local food culture, including restaurant reviews, chef profiles, recipes, and the latest food trends.
Travel Writers | EnRoute
EnRoute is Air Canada's in-flight magazine, focusing on travel, lifestyle, and culture. It aims to provide readers with engaging content that highlights global destinations, travel tips, and unique cultural insights.
Freelance Writers | Urban History Association
The UHA blog is taking 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
Freelance Writers | IJNet
IJNet is looking for pitches about journalism tools, apps or resources that they haven’t covered.
Freelance Writers | Earth Island Journal
Earth Island Journal are looking for thoughtful journalism pieces about environmental and other intersectional issues.
Freelance Writers | Current Affairs
Current Affairs are accepting pitches for new articles on animal welfare and the environment. And they'll consider other topics, too.
Freelance Writers | Leicester Gazette
The Leicester Gazette says it's always open for pitches, so check them out.
Freelance Writers | The Sun
Looking for women's stories and opinion pieces for the Bodies section on Fab Daily in The Sun. Topics covered could be body image, fitness, wellness trends, weight etc. UK only.
Freelance Writers | Network Weaver
Deadline: July 2025
Network Weaver are accepting pitches for this year’s 2024 – 2025 BIPOC Editorial series until July 2025
Feature Writers | Freethink
Freethink covers tech, business, and society. They’re always looking for feature ideas on transformative trends and innovations, including interviews with industry leaders, scientists, and others.
First Person Writers | Nonlinear Love
Nonlinear Love is looking for first-person essays about “nonlinear love.”
SEO Writers/Experts | Sitebulb
If you have unique SEO insights, case studies, tips, or just want to get your name associated with a particular topic, Sitebulb wants to hear from you.
Feature Writers | Freethink
If you're passionate about exploring the intersection of tech, business, and society, Freethink want to hear from you.
Edmonton-based Freelance Writers | CBC
CBC is looking for 1st person pitches from writers living in Edmonton, Canada.
Freelance Writers | Planetizen
Planetizen are accepting pitches for feature articles that bring an expert lens to today's key planning issues.
Freelance Writers | Future Commerce
Future Commerce is still accepting pitches on “the future of how we buy and belong”. Pay: $0.20 to $0.50 per word for at least 1,500 words.
Freelance Writers | Religious Dispatches
Religious Dispatches is calling for pitches from writers of color, queer writers and disabled writers.
Health Writers | Keppel Health Review
Keppel Health Review is an independent platform publishing diverse & digestible journalism on current issues and solutions in health & healthcare.
Legal / Geography Writers | Law and Space
Law & Space accepts a wide variety of short blog-style articles written with academic integrity but intended for a broad audience.
Personal Finance Writers | Toronto Star
The Toronto Star is accepting pitches from experienced personal finance writers.
Food / Travel Writers | Resy
Resy is always accepting pitches for restaurant-related stories and ideas.
Latino Freelance Writers | Indy Espanol
They are looking for pitches about culture, health, entertainment, lifestyle and politics.
Freelance Editing Opportunities
Please Note: these roles are advertised as being remote. However, please read the fine print, as some of them require you to be in the United States (or other countries) and others simply want you to be authorised to work in that country.
Freelance Technical Editor | accelerate agency
Posted 13 January 2025
You will be responsible for creating content outlines for their writers to follow, specifically for their technical clients. Need to be familiar with AI tools and platforms.
Contract Weekend Editor (Men's Journal) | The Arena Group
Posted: 13 January 2025
You'll be responsible for overseeing content production during the weekend, jumping on breaking news stories, and assigning and guiding a small team of writers to deliver timely and engaging content to their audience.
Tech Senior Editor | DeenTek Solutions LLC
Posted: 13 January 2025
You will be responsible for overseeing the editing and quality assurance of technical content, which includes articles, reviews, and guides.
Manuscript Editor | Radiological Society of North America (RSNA)
Posted 13 January 2025
You'll be responsible for producing editorial content (text and images) and ancillary content for Radiology and other journals produced by RSNA.
Senior Editor | WebMD
Posted: 7 January 2025
WebMD is looking for someone who is familiar with the optical industry, including knowledge and/or expertise in lenses and technology, and is an experienced journalist and creative reporter.
Copy Editor | Cypress HCM
Posted 6 January 2025
You’ll be the first point of contact for their global author pool, editing technical and end-user-facing content. The role involves administering metadata for their content-management system, Contentful, and training new authors on the platform.
Managing Editor | Planetizen
Posted: 23 December
You’ll be responsible for all content created for the Planetizen and Planetizen Courses platforms.
Senior Editor | Boundless Life Sciences Group
Posted: 16 December 2024
You'll be handling editorial duties for all projects on a specific account, helping set and maintain brand style, and keeping the team aligned with editorial processes.
Jekyll / Github Editor | Law & Space
Law & Space is built using Jekyll, a static website generator, and hosted publicly on Github. They are looking for people who have the technical skills to edit using these tools.
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Remote Writing Gigs/Jobs
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Freelance Content Writers | Ivan Venberg
Posted 13 January 2025
Ivan is looking for experienced freelance content writers who can explain complex concepts in easy to understand ways.
Freelance Content Writer | Annjali Saxena
Posted 7 January 2025
Annjali is looking for a freelance content writer with a minimum of 2+ years of experience who can write 100% human-written content.
Freelance Writers | AMBCrypto
Posted 31 December 2024
AMBCrypto is looking for folks who have worked on analysis-based articles that are crypto news-centric, relevant, and use a combination of data sets and metrics to convey short-term and long-term market dynamics.
Freelance Writers | Tutorify Technologies
Posted 31 December 2024
Tutorify Technologies is looking for freelance academic writers with expertise in Civil and Mechanical Engineering.
Senior Technical Writer | GitLab
Date reposted: 11 November 2024
You'll be responsible for ensuring that the documentation for all of our products is clear, correct, comprehensive, and easy to use. And you'll be working with the Technical Writing team which manages the docs.gitlab.com site and its content, processes, and tooling.
Contract Writer | Snappt
Date posted: 5 November 2024
You'll be writing educational and informative blogs and you'll need to be interested in tech innovation in real estate.
Freelance Content Writer (US Based) | Maximus
Posted 28 October 2024
You'll be writing engaging, scientifically accurate articles on men’s health, fitness, nutrition, mental well-being, and lifestyle.
Freelance Blog Writers | MyThirdPlace
Date posted: 17 September 2024
MyThirdPlace has just launched their community blog! They are looking for blog/content writers to produce a single article for their website (approx.1000-1500 words).
Dutch Copywriters and Translators | Klinget
Date posted: 16 September 2024
No info provided other than that Klinget is looking for Dutch copywriters and translators.
Get Into Travel Writing
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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