Dave Greber Freelance Writers Book and Magazine Awards for Social Justice Writing

There are two separate awards. The book award is set at $5,000 and the magazine award is set at $2,000. Since the awards can be given before publication and book and magazine publishing timelines can differ, so do the requirements for each award.

Eligibility Requirements For All Magazine or Book Award Submissions:

Residency

Applicant must be a continuing resident of Canada and at the date of application lived in Canada for the last twelve months.

70% Freelancer Requirement

Applicant must be working a minimum of seventy per cent of their work time as a self-employed freelance writer.

Eligible Publication Methods

Submissions to be published in print or on the Internet will be accepted if the writer meets all other eligibility requirements of the Call for Submissions but note that works that are self-published only are not eligible.

Submissions that are to be only self-published are not eligible.

Publicity/Media

Award winners are asked to agree to make a considered effort to acknowledge this prize upon publication and to acknowledge the Dave Greber Freelance Writing Awards in the published work and when interviewed by media about the winning submission.

Award-winning independent journalist Wudan Yan is looking for an editorial assistant to help manage logistics and research for her editorial business. Wudan is a journalist, content writer, fact-checker, and owner of Factual, a fact-checking agency.

Green Avenue Books & Publishing is looking for an Editor to join our team. We are a small but growing publisher. As our business grows so will this position. For now, this will be a contract position with a monthly project average of 1-2 manuscripts. Majority of our book publications are Fantasy, Romance, Mystery, and Horror and contain explicit content. 

We’re looking for an experienced Features & Spotlight Writer to join our editorial team on a freelance basis. This isn’t an entry-level fashion writing role. We're looking for someone who can develop meaningful stories by building real connections with industry professionals.

You’ll be reaching out to and interviewing leaders at top companies like Aritzia, Lululemon, Mejuri, and many more. Your stories will explore what it’s like to work at these brands, how they’re hiring, and what job seekers need to know to get in.

We’re on the hunt for a brilliant freelance copywriter ✍ 

We’re looking for a talented Irish copywriter to help share the Blanco Niño story across our packaging and marketing communications.

Who we’re after:
🇮🇪 Irish (to continue our brand’s distinct tone)
🌮 Experience working on food and drink brands
✍ Available for a retained freelance role (approximately 1–2 days per month)

If that sounds like you, or someone you know, please apply here: https://lnkd.in/eTMPD4Ws

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.

🚨 I'm hiring a Canada-based freelance Content Strategist with strong video and YouTube chops to join our strategy team, supporting a major North American telecom brand.

Contract Specifics
📍Part-time freelance: 20–30 hours/month
📍Duration: 7 months (June–December 2025)
📍Must be Canadian; Eastern or Central time zones preferred
📍Focus on long & short-form video content, optimization tactics, and creative collaboration

Ideal background
🎯 Experience shaping content strategy for YouTube and/or digital video
🎯 Familiarity with metadata, retention tactics, and content repackaging
🎯Telecom and/or tech industry experience preferred

To apply, send me a LinkedIn message with:
✅ Your resume
✅ Portfolio or relevant work samples
✅ Hourly rate expectations

We're moving quickly and looking for someone who can hit the ground running and commit to the full engagement. If this sounds like you—or someone in your network—let’s chat!

ActiveCampaign needs freelance writers with journalism chops for a new website.

MIT Technology Review is seeking pitches for an upcoming print issue. The theme is The Body.

We're looking for pitches for longer pieces: narrative features, compelling investigations, essential profiles, and super-sharp essays. This call for pitches is mostly aimed at journalists, but if you're an expert with a strong idea, please don't hesitate to reach out. 

The pitch deadline is Friday May 30. If you haven't seen it, please review our pitch guide (https://lnkd.in/ghW8vbiT). It includes general pitching advice, word rates, my e-mail address, and other helpful details.

Would you like to write for New Scientist? We always work with freelancers, but occasionally I put out a call like this for new writers. I'm looking for 300-700 word news stories about new discoveries. Don't pitch us press releases or the big journals, we have those covered. Pay starts at 51p/word

Fun news: I just started as a features editor at New York magazine. Wildly excited to join this team. Pitch me!

I’m particularly interested in angles on the news, the political/cultural zeitgeist, and historical or contextual analysis of the time we’re in. natalie.shutler@voxmedia.com

Last Word on NFL (lastwordonsports.com/nfl) is looking to add freelance writers to cover the following teams and topics:

- hashtag#NFL Teams: Arizona Cardinals (2), Atlanta Falcons (1), Baltimore Ravens (1), Buffalo Bills (1), Carolina Panthers (2), Cleveland Browns (2), Denver Broncos (2), Detroit Lions (1), Green Bay Packers (2), Houston Texans (2), Jacksonville Jaguars (2), Las Vegas Raiders (2), Los Angeles Rams (2), Miami Dolphins (2), Minnesota Vikings (2), New England Patriots (1), New Orleans Saints (2), New York Giants (1), New York Jets (1), Philadelphia Eagles (1), Pittsburgh Steelers (1), San Francisco 49ers (1), Seattle Seahawks (2), Tampa Bay Buccaneers (2), Tennessee Titans (1)
- NFL Fantasy (3)
- NFL Draft & Prospects (3)

We're  looking for unconventional relationship stories! Details below for personal essay submissions. They will be published at http://nonlinearlove.com - and they can be anonymous too.

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.

♪ || About Us || ♪
Loom is a new interdisciplinary literary journal that seeks fiction, poetry, essays and comics in conversation with other artistic mediums—both thematically, (e.g. longform criticism, ekphrastic poetry or fiction) and formally (e.g. work that integrates sound, video, image, design).

♪ || Deadline || ♪
Pitches and full drafts for fiction, nonfiction, poetry and comics are open until midnight AEST, Thursday 12 June 2025.

♪ || Constraints || ♪
— We are seeking previously unpublished work.
— Feel free to send a pitch, draft or something more fully fleshed out.
— You may submit up to three pitches and/or drafts for consideration.
— Pieces from ‘Quaver’ will first appear in print, and subsequently on our website. We encourage work that challenges and expands out of the page (requiring digital elements), but all pieces need to function effectively in print.
— For fiction and essays, we are generally looking for work between 1500–3000 words.
— We’ll be printing in duotone, page dimensions 160mm 200mm

♪ || Pay || ♪
All selected artists will receive $180 for their work.

♪ || Queries || ♪
If you have any questions, feel free to email our editor Adalya at info@loomlitmag.com