24 Publications Paying for Love & Relationships Writing!
A collection of 24 different publications that all pay freelancers for writing about love, relationships and sex.
Hello!
After my recent piece about 25 publications that are paying freelancers for travel writing, I wanted to cover a different topic.
Remember: this is a mix of publications in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom. For freelancers, it doesn’t generally matter where you are pitching unless you have a strong link to a particular place. Editors are used to receiving freelance pitches from everywhere in the world!
Anyway, this time it’s 24 different publications that are commissioning and paying freelancers for writing about love and relationships! Hope you can find something useful here.
Business Insider welcome pitches relating to love and relationships year round. Personal essays, interviews and more are welcomed. Their best advice for deciding what to pitch: Read the site. Get a feel for the types of stories we run. Don't pitch stories we've already written. Be creative, and use a Business Insider-style headline in the subject line of your email. Business Insider generally pay in the $200-$300 range for this kind of work. Guidelines here.
The New York Times has a column called ‘Modern Love’. The editors of Modern Love are interested in receiving deeply personal essays about contemporary relationships, marriage, dating, parenthood...any subject that might reasonably fit under the heading. Submission details here and pay is usually $300. Note that they open again for submissions in September.
Bustle delivers joyful, inclusive, and relatable stories for real women. They consider timely first-person pieces and personal essays, experiments and trials, and interviews and profiles. They have a relationships section specifically that they publish. A writer I know who recently wrote a piece for Bustle was paid £400 for 800 words, though I understand their rates do vary. Check out their submission page.
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