CALL FOR PITCHES: Derange is looking for literary journalism. We can pay $100 per piece, and the subject matter can be about anything. Ideally, your story will pair boots-on-the-ground reporting with narrative flair. 

Calling all Writers: Open Submissions Now Live!

Do you have a story to share? Wild Skies Press is now seeking submissions for upcoming book titles. Fiction, non-fiction, poetry–we want to hear from you! Submit now to be considered for the 2026-2027 season, with early submissions highly encouraged. Don’t miss the chance to bring your work to life with a publisher that values your voice.

Click here <https://wildskiespress.com/call-for-writers/> for more details about our submissions process and to learn about what makes Wild Skies
Press the right publisher for you.

This is my regular callout for pitches for the Globe and Mail's business opinion section. Pitch me at elou@globeandmail.com. For reference, these are the pieces that have run in my section: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/

Journalists, please pitch me! I edit mind & brain news at @sciam.bsky.social and I'm looking for psychology and neuroscience stories. I'm especially interested in consciousness science and linguistics. Guidelines and contact info: https://www.scientificamerican.com/page/submission-instructions/

Since the workload isn’t getting any lighter, I would like to extend an occasional invitation and/or plea to you to take some of it on: If there is a case you want to unpack, a trend you want to highlight, a nominee you want to scrutinize, or just something happening in the law-adjacent world that makes you upset, you can send Balls & Strikes your pitches anytime at—you’ll want to write this down, it’s complicated—pitches@ballsandstrikes.org. You can find more detailed submissions guidelines here, but I will spoil the most important part: For essays of about 1,000 words, we typically pay $500. Why go outside and enjoy the beautiful weather this summer when you can get paid to write about the worst people on earth instead?

This is my regular callout for pitches for the Globe and Mail's business opinion section. Pitch me at elou@globeandmail.com. For reference, these are the pieces that have run in my section: https://www.theglobeandmail.com/business/commentary/

IndieWire welcomes pitches on a range of subjects relating to film, television, and new media. We love great stories, especially when they’re tied to insightful reported work about diverse creatives and strong artistic visions. We also welcome work about new trends and changes to the business and culture of entertainment, from production to distribution.

SAD Mag has a man­date to sup­port emerging writers and artists based in B.C., with an emphasis on stories and works from underrepresented voices. We especially encourage pitches from LGBTQ+, BIPOC, and people with disabilities. Submissions are welcome from those who have never been published before, or who are in the early stages of their careers—editorial support will be provided.

Print and Web 
Our print issues are published twice a year with themes and submission deadlines that are announced beforehand on our Instagram and here. Follow us @sadmagazine to stay updated. Please note if submissions are open or closed below. 

Our website features regular content. Submissions are always open. We look forward to receiving your work! 

More information on submission guidelines and how to submit to print and web below. Please note that print and web submissions are separate with different directions. 

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Paying contributors is important to us. We value your work and do our best to reduce financial barriers to submitting. Having said that, SAD is a volunteer-run nonprofit and much of our budget is grant-dependent. As such, our rates tend to fluctuate. Depending on the word length, writing submissions for each print issue will range from $100-300, and depending on the size and placement, art submissions will range from $70-500. For web submissions, see details below. 

You've reached the pitch form for both HuffPost Family and Relationships. Here's the place to pitch each of your stories (please do not email!) — try to give a sample headline, some insight into your angle, sourcing and anything else that shows why this pitch is perfect for us. If your pitch is selected, you'll hear back from us via email and we'll chat about the details/rates. Please refrain from simultaneous submissions.

Due to the large volume of pitches we receive, we aren't able to get back to everyone. If you haven't heard from us within 3-4 weeks, you can assume we're passing this time around and can resume pitching elsewhere. 

We are always accepting pitches from guest writers! We are especially looking for writers who can speak to death practices and traditions from equity deserving groups, the Global South, and Indigenous writers. We also welcome anyone living with marginalized experiences to send us their pitches.

If you are a writer, journalist, researcher, scholar, or activist passionate about various issues in Southeast Asia, you might be interested in writing for New Naratif!

We are looking for feature or explanatory articles of 1500-2000 words long, which have to be original and have never been published in any other publication before.

Pitches should be sent to pitches @ newnaratif.com, and they should contain a working title, with an accompanying paragraph of at least 100 words in length, containing:

• What this article is going to be about
• Who/which individual or community in Southeast Asia would relate to this article
• Where/when (e.g. the location/time period of) the events/phenomenon elaborated in the article takes place
• Why it is important for New Naratif to publish this article
• How will this article be written (e.g. Literary research? Interview? Location visit? Survey? FGD? etc.)

Send in your pitch to the above email with the following subject format: [Theme]_PITCH.

Every month, New Naratif invites writers to send pitches under a special theme. So, look out for the announcement of the theme of the month!

Due to an overwhelming number of participants, only writers of successful pitches will be contacted.

Writers should be able to finish the article in two weeks time, and to stand by for at least a week afterwards for the editing process. Published articles will be paid a fee of USD 150~200 depending on word count.

Open Themes

Feeling an itch to send a pitch but your idea does not fit with the theme of the month? Don’t worry! New Naratif is always open to pitches for articles outside of the monthly theme, as long as they fall within the theme umbrella below:

• Democracy (including but not limited to: law and policy making, politics in SEA, elections, etc.)
• Migration (including but not limited to: statelessness, forced displacement, migrant workers, etc.)
• Gender (including but not limited to: queer experience, feminism, LGBTQ+ struggles, sexual/gendered violence, etc.)
• Environment
• Freedom of speech (including but not limited to: civilian resistance and protest organisers, police/military brutality, state sponsored surveillance, state sponsored extrajudicial killings, arrests, and terrors, etc.)
• Press freedom
• Race and ethnicity
• Welfare (including but not limited to: economy, healthcare, housing, etc.)
• SEA history (including but not limited to: historical events in a Southeast Asian country, important figures in a nation’s history, folktale discussions, etc.)

Potential pitches will be shelved to wait for a time when the theme occurs in our calendar, or slotted in our publications schedule should there be a spot available!

MelEdits, led by longtime editor and writer Melanie Padgett Powers, is expanding its roster of freelance writers for various membership association magazines. Most assignments pay a flat rate of around $1/word.

She’s specifically looking to diversify her pool of freelancers, so if you’re a writer from a marginalized group (person of color, neurodivergent, disabled, etc.), and you know your way around interviews, research, and storytelling — this is your lane.

What she’s looking for:

🔹 B2C Health Care Writers – Can you break down complex health topics for patients or consumers after talking to scientists or clinicians? That’s gold.
🔹 Science Writers – Deep science. Think neuroscience, physiology, cell biology. Can you hold your own in a conversation with a researcher and turn it into a compelling magazine feature for fellow scientists?
🔹 Mental Health Writers – Especially those who write for practitioner audiences. Narrative magazine-style storytelling is key.
🔹 Profile Writers – You know how to turn interviews with scientists and clinicians into rich, narrative-driven profiles — not just regurgitated bios.

Legion Magazine is published six times a year by Canvet Publications Ltd. for a national readership composed of members of The Royal Canadian Legion and their families, as well as serving members of the Canadian Forces, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police and the general public. Among paid circulation magazines with national distribution, Legion Magazine has a reader base of 470,382.

Areas of coverage include military history, military and veterans affairs, policing issues, issues of concern to senior citizens, health, recreation, humour and current affairs of interest to a national audience. A large number of personal war-related and peacetime memoirs and diaries are used. Extensive coverage is also given to Legion functions and events, but these are handled by magazine staff or Legion correspondents.

Average article length is between 1,500 and 2,200 words, although stories as short as 600 and as long as 3,000 words are accepted on occasion. The magazine does not accept fiction, poetry, travel writing or simultaneous transmissions.

Manuscript fees for first North American serial rights range from $150 to $1,200, payable after final edit. For the right to post a selected article on the magazine’s Web site, the magazine pays the author 10 per cent of the manuscript fee.

Please note that the magazine often has a large backlog of unsolicited manuscripts, including numerous memoirs. Send a query letter before sending in an article. Persons submitting unsolicited manuscripts should be prepared to wait several months for a decision from the editors, and publication may be up to 20 months after acceptance.

Block Club Chicago is actively looking for freelancers who want to tell stories about the city’s neighborhoods. Here’s how to pitch us.

While we do occasionally reach out to freelancers with stories we’d like them to cover, we love when freelancers pitch us stories from their communities.

You can pitch stories to Pitches@BlockClubChi.org. In your subject, please say, “FREELANCER PITCH.” If you are working on a tight deadline, please note that in the subject.

Do you know of a journalism tool, app or resource that we haven’t covered? A media innovator who has a fascinating story to tell? Or do you simply want to discuss a current media trend taking place in your country?

If so, we want to hear from you.

IJNet accepts pitches from readers, and in doing so, we hope to build a network of global, diverse contributors whose work can help as many journalists as possible.

Before submitting your pitch, please familiarize yourself with IJNet content.

If we’re interested in your idea, we will get back to you as soon as possible. Unfortunately, we are not able to respond to everyone. Simply fill out the form below.