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Unless a closing date is included, all the following are open to pitches.

Business Writers | The Globe and Mail

The Globe and Mail is calling for pitches for its business opinion section.

Freelance Writers (UK only) | The iPaper

The iPaper say they are always looking for interesting lifestyle takes/lines across relationships, money (cost of living/how we live today), health, world of work and careers - pitch with a headline in mind.

Writers Who Work In Hospitality | Harriet Fitch Little

Must be working in the Hospitality industry and able/willing to write about trends in that industry that others are not talking about.

Travel Writers | In The Know

Warning! This site says it's not paying for content at the moment. However, if you're new to travel writing and are trying to build a portfolio, this is one way to do it ... as long as you can cope with the "no payment" thing. They say they want 1st person / personal experience stories about your travels. And you retain all the rights.

Freelance Food Writer | Tasty

Tasty are looking for evergreen and timely stories on home cooking and trending food & dining moments.

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.

Senior Editor | Milliman

Posted 18 February 2025

You'll be reviewing technical documents (whitepapers, reports, presentations, etc.) for reputational risks, including identification of biased or unbalanced perspectives.

Engagement Editor (UK Based) | Astra Content

Posted 18 February 2025

You will be writing feature articles for the global publication, as well as handle content promotion, case study writing, social media, and email newsletters

Business Editor | MIT Technology Review

Posted 10 February 2025

You'll be responsible for producing a weekly series of stories that feature a mix of professional service pieces focused on case studies, interviews, explainers, and how to coverage.

Lead Editor | Inizio Invoke

Posted 4 February 2025

Requires medical editing experience. You'll be doing detailed editorial reviews, including copyediting, proofreading, fact-checking, and cross-referencing clinical data for pharmaceutical marketing materials.

Editor, Crime and Courts | Newsweek

Reposted 4 February 2025

US-based remote. You'll be responsible for commissioning, editing and publishing multiple stories a day across the legal, crime and breaking news beats.  

Swedish Speaking SEO Content Editor | ClickOut Media

Posted 26 January 2025

You will be responsible for content ordering and editing, while liaising with a range of writers to become a main contributor to the site's growth.

Freelance Medical Editor For Social Media | 10Pearls

Posted 20 January 2025

You will be responsible for ensuring that social posts for our pharmaceutical client are developed with a high level of quality. You will be performing all levels of editing, including copyediting, fact-checking, proofreading, styling, and layout review.

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

Please note that all "dates posted" are based on Australian Eastern Standard Time. Which means that if you're in the United States we'll be a day ahead. So it might feel like we're coming to you from the future 😊.

Advertising Copywriter Content Strategist | Calabria Group: Innovation Technology Delivery

Posted 18 February 2025

You'll be producing customer-facing copy, develop messaging frameworks, and design content ecosystems. Must be experienced with Advertising copywriting.

Video Game Adaptation News/Features Staff Writer | Game Rant

Posted 18 February 2025

You'll be expanding coverage of Video Game Adaptation TV/movie related topics and help to generate news/feature topics based on site needs.

Freelance Writer | HiConsumption

Posted 15 February 2025

You'll contributing enthusiast-driven daily product coverage, long form hands-on reviews, and buyer’s guides. Verticals of interest are watches, everyday carry (EDC) gear, tech/gadgets, motoring (automotive/motorcycles) and style.

Remote Freelance Medical Writer (UK) | Custom Learning Designs

Posted 10 February 2025

Custom Learning Designs are looking for experienced medical writers with expertise in scientific storytelling, instructional design, and commercialization strategy.

Conversion Copywriter | Kevin Meyer Consulting GMBH

10 February 2025

Must be able to read and write fluently in German. Schreiben von verkaufsstarken Texten für Anzeigen, Webseiten, E-Mail-Marketing und Social Media.

Sr Pharma/Health Copywriter - PowerPoint, Healthcare | Creative Circle

Posted 9 February 2025

You'll be delivering clear and concise copy projects for client and/or partner programs, digital, campaigns, product, and advertisements. Must be eligible to work in the United States.

Social Media Writer | English with Dina Oshmarina

Posted 8 February 2025

You'll be responsible for writing engaging and audience-focused social media posts across various platforms.

Freelance Writer | IREEQ

Posted 7 February 2025

You will be responsible for writing, editing, and submitting high-quality content on various topics. The role will involve conducting research, following specific guidelines, and meeting deadlines.

Freelance Writer | Grow By Three

Posted 6 February 2025

You'll be writing and pitching pieces on topics related to wellness, health, travel, culture, food, and more.

Copywriter - SEO - Fully Remote Part Time | Creative Circle

Posted 4 February 2025

You'll be creating the concepts for and writing SEO-driven copy to be used for paid social, emails, blogs/articles, promotional marketing material and more.

Freelance Copywriter | Collier.Simon

Posted 1 February 2025

Bilingual Spanish/English. Remote, but must be available to work PT (Pacific Time) hours. You'll be developing original concepts and copy for a variety of mediums including banners, email campaigns, social media content, video scripts and web content. 

Freelance Movies and TV News Writer | MovieWeb

Posted 21 January 2025

The editorial team at MovieWeb.com is looking for a passionate writer to contribute Movie & TV News articles to the website.

Freelance Writers | Oh My! Creative

Posted 21 January 2025

Oh My! Creative are looking for some great freelance writers to work with.

Freelance Food Writer | Tasty

Posted 17 January 2025

Tasty are looking for evergreen and timely stories on home cooking and trending food & dining moments.

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 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.

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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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