FWN Free Newsletter: 54 Pitch Calls, Freelance & Remote Writing Opportunities!
19 pitch calls from editors and 35 remote or freelance writing opportunities to check out this week.
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Nonlinear Love is a project that shares and interrogates love stories that don’t follow the traditional “linear” course in a non-judgmental format. We seek to counter the prescriptive “self-help” information on social media. We listen to and share unconventional love stories: hot romances, bad breakups, divorces, and more. Think of NYT’s “Tiny Love Stories” meets advice column meets podcast.
NLL is co-founded by a New York City divorce lawyer (Alan Feigenbaum, or Al) and relationships writer and media entrepreneur (Ariella Steinhorn, or Ari).
We are looking to publish first-person essays about “nonlinear love” on our site–divorces and remarriages; dating horrors or delights; lovers who cropped back up years later; or even an unexpected thing you learned from your partner within a traditional marriage or relationship structure.
800-1,000 words; we will pay $150 per essay. Please submit to ariella@superposition-stories.com. The deadline to submit is November 15, 2024.
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Calls to Pitch
Kayla is starting a new role as Time Out's Texas and Southern USA Editor. “Writers based in Texas, New Orleans, or Atlanta please get in touch! Email kayla.hui@timeout.com with the subject line "[City] New Writer," a short intro, and some relevant clips / portfolio.” Budget currently being finalised.
Have a story to tell about your experience as a working writer? Melissa is accepting pitches for Remote Writing Jobs. $200 per accepted piece.
Matt is looking for pitches at The Parliament Magazine, where they share timely features, news analyses and op-eds on EU policy and politics – available in print monthly and digital daily. Email matthew.lynes@theparliamentmagazine.eu. €0.50/word.
Nonprofit Quarterly invites you to contribute to a special print issue of NPQ centered on women of color in the South taking up and reclaiming space, to be published in the spring of 2025. Pays $500 for printed features.
The National Forest Foundation is seeking a personal essay for the Summer/Fall 2025 issue of our magazine, Light & Seed, which will focus on the economic impact of National Forests and Grasslands and the communities that rely on them. $1/word.
Conor at The Brag Media is looking for more pitches across Rolling Stone Aus, Tone Deaf and Variety Australia. Starts at $250 AUD per feature.
Hearing Things is an independent, worker-owned publication covering music and the culture around it. They’re looking for features, essays, reporting, profiles, and reviews. The minimum rate for shorter, written-out pieces (at least 800 words) is $350, and $1,000 for longer, written-out stories (at least 2,000 words).
Bareerah at ISNA’s Islamic Horizons is looking for education-related pitches in time for an upcoming West Coast Education Forum (Jan. 17-18). Theme this year is promoting social justice and spiritual resilience through education. $0.20/word.
James is looking for stories about the downstream impacts of business and tech on our everyday lives in Canada for The Logic. Email your short, punchy pitches to james[dot]temperton[at]thelogic[dot]co. $1 CAD/word.
Freethink covers the collision of technology, business and society. They’re always looking for original feature ideas about transformative trends and innovations, including interviews with high-profile industry leaders, thinkers, entrepreneurs, and scientists. $1000-$2000, depending on length.
Tessa is always looking for pitches for SFGATE for topics related to California, including history, trends, housing, climate and anything weird or interesting. Email tessa.mclean@sfgate.com. $300+.
Nalang is always looking for interesting opinion pitches on almost any subject of interest to a Toronto Star audience. And if you have ideas for an essay, a Q&A, a reflective slice of life piece with a point of view, also get in touch. You can email on nalang@thestar.ca.
Conz at Business Insider is looking for essay pitches for Insider on the following topics: Being childfree by choice and how that affected relationships; Parenting teenagers (all of the topics); American families who moved abroad (all countries are welcomed, but would love more South America stories). Email cpreti@insider.com. Rates around $230.
Maybelle is always on the hunt for UK lifestyle pitches around money, family, relationships, homes, work. Email maybelle.morgan@inews.co.uk. (Note: while never shared, believe rates are between £120-£200).
Honey is looking to commission more first person stories about sex or sexuality for Sextras World. Pitch at sextrasmag@gmail.com. No rates mentioned.
Islandia Journal is seeking work inspired by Miami Vice including personal essays, criticisms, poems and fiction. $0.25/word for essays and criticism up to 1500 words.
TwoCircles.net is looking for reporters to cover the Assembly elections in Maharashtra. Interested reporters please send in your pitches to newsdesk@twocircles.net at the earliest. $40/story.
Climate Home News is looking for “pitches on the manufacturing of clean energy technologies (especially wind turbines and solar PV) in South East Asia. Pays $1/word.
Ariella is looking for unconventional relationship stories! Details below for personal essay submissions. They will be published at Nonlinear Love - and they can be anonymous too. $150 per essay.
Who’s Hiring: North America
Gary is looking for talented freelance sports writers with experience in high school sports content creation. “Whether you excel in a particular sport, recruiting news, long-form features, or multiple sports in a specific market, I want to hear from you.”
Eureka is looking to expand their pool of experienced freelance writers/journalists to write engaging articles about Eureka innovations and the companies behind them. Send an email to communications@eurekanetwork.org, attaching your CV and linking to some published writing samples, citing “FREELANCE WRITER” in the subject line.
The Superpath Marketplace is seeking a strong technical writer with experience writing about software/web/app/full-stack development, and especially machine learning, data science, GenAI, and LLMs.
The Beautylish creative team is seeking an Editorial Writer to contribute short- and long-form content to engage and inform our customers.
The Glendale Cherry Creek Chronicle is seeking contributing writers for its Denver based monthly publication. This is a freelance position, WFH.
If you're a student/early 20s journalist in Appalachia looking for a (paid!) home for reporting on flooding aftermath, politics and election coverage, or other issues/themes impacting young Appalachians, DM or email Rainesford.
Longreads is seeking an experienced and creative features editor to join a small team on a part-time basis (approx. 20 hours/week). Closes October 31st.
All About Circuits is looking for freelance news writers! If you want to use your electrical engineering experience to make sense of bleeding-edge electronics news, this opportunity may be for you.
Observer seeks a talented freelance assistant editor to work 20-25 hours per week, collaborating closely with staff editors to refine and polish various types of articles across all sections of the site.
Texas Monthly’s journalism internships are paid and are available each fall, spring, and summer semester to current undergraduate or graduate students.
Digitas Chicago is looking for a Freelance Senior Copywriter. Open to teams or individuals. Shopper retail experience desired.
Courtney’s client, a pet brand, is looking for a Freelance Copywriter to join their marketing team on a remote basis (US based). If you have experience crafting compelling copy for pet obsessed pet parents, please email at CourtneyL@pyramidcg.com with resume and work samples.
Technology Advice is hiring for a contracted Content Editor.
The Square Hardware & Payments Design Team is looking for a freelance senior writer to be the lead on all in-store retail displays.
Axios is hiring a Senior Technology Reporter to cover artificial intelligence.
Arizent is seeking a business reporter to cover large and midsize banks, as well as large fintechs, for American Banker, the preeminent news publication serving the financial services industry. Remote, US.
Wondersauce is seeking a trend-obsessed copywriter with 2-5 years of experience to join their fully remote team.
Digiday Media is looking for an experienced journalist to oversee Digiday’s coverage of the media industry, with an emphasis on major publishers such as The New York Times, News Corp, Axel Springer, BuzzFeed, Vox Media and Dotdash Meredith.
Travso Media is hiring talented Writers and Editors in the Spirituality and Psychics industry to join their team and contribute to a growing portfolio.
Travso Media is also hiring health & wellness Writers and Editors.
Keens Buildings (Florida) is looking for a website copywriter.
Who’s Hiring: Worldwide
Jake is looking for a writer for blog posts for a video production company. You will be assigned a topic ranging from industry news, advertising, statistics, video equipment reviews, and interviews (UK).
Omniscient is hiring writers to write technical and semi-technical SEO blog content on topics related to the cloud (worldwide).
Somnio is hiring for freelance B2B digital writers, based anywhere (worldwide).
OpenPhone is looking for a contract Content Producer that can work with them for 40 hours per week (worldwide).
Niamh is looking for freelance comedy writers to write skits for brands on social (Niamh is based in Ireland).
Explore Group is seeking a Technical Writer to join the team on a contractual basis with November start (UK).
Eleven is looking to hire more topic expert writers (UK).
Daily Record is looking for a trainee trends writer (Scotland).
Questel is hiring a Freelance SEO Expert (UK).
Finrec.io is looking for a talented Technical Writer with exceptional communication and presentation skills (UK).
BOLDSCIENCE is hiring a Lead Medical Writer (LMW) with a wealth of experience within the Medical Communications industry (UK).
Genflow is an agency which works with the world's biggest creators and brands and is hiring a UK content writer.
SRG is hiring an Expert Science Writer in the Medical/Pharma niche (UK or Ireland).
TransPerfect Life Sciences is seeking experienced and diverse freelance medical writers to support our global clients.