Dollars & Sense is “a progressive economics magazine that explains in a popular way both the workings of the economy and struggles to change it.” They accept articles on a wide range of topics as long as they have an economic theme. According to their editor, they pay $250 for shorter pieces and $450 for features. For more information, refer to this page.
Open Secrets is an online magazine that publishes memorable and revealing personal essays on the topics we are taught to keep “secret.” They are open to essays (1,000 to 1,500 words) on all personal experiences. They pay authors $100 per essay. For more information, refer to this page.
Crafted For All is “a professional development platform that fosters inclusive, equitable, and just spaces and experiences in the craft beverage sector.” They’re seeking writers: “We’re looking for thinkers and advocates who can educate, inspire, and challenge our community in ways that support our vision of an equitable and just craft beverage industry.” Rate is $200 to $500 per piece. To learn more, refer to this page.
Gaze is “a social app for queer safety, joy, and commerce.” They’re accepting pitches for their weekly newsletter which features 1 to 2 stories from their contributors. The pitches should be about “queer culture, friendships, community, sex, dating and relationships, identity, sex work, mental health, living online, our relationship to our bodies and the physical world, money, pleasure, and power.” They mostly publish first person essays (800-2,000 words), with an occasional reported feature (2,000-6,000 words). Rates are $150 for first person essays and $300+ for reported features. To pitch, visit this page.
TransLash News & Narrative is a personal essay and journalism platform for transgender and gender non-conforming (TGNC) people. They’re interested in stories on government policy, bodily autonomy, navigating social services, community, identity, travel, and history. They offer a flat rate of $350 per piece (ideally 1,000 words). To learn how to pitch them, refer to this page.
Trans Writes is a trans-led project that aims to platform trans voices. They accept pitches on various topics, e.g., current events, sports, news, entertainment, technology, and video games. They want pitches from people from a wide range of backgrounds and writing experiences. They pay £100 per piece with a flexible word count. To learn more, refer to their pitching guide and form.
Common Good Magazine is a print magazine about “faith, work, and economics — which is to say, about the seamless life.” They send out periodic calls for pitches. They then try to develop a long-term relationship with the writers they publish. According to their editor, for digital-only pieces, they generally pay $250. For print pieces, they start at $0.50/word. To sign up for their calls for pitches, click here. To learn more about them, click here.
The Nonprofit Quarterly (NPQ) is a nonprofit print and digital magazine that educates the nonprofit sector through research-based articles and resources. They usually publish articles of 1,500-3,000 words. They especially look for articles and pitches that cover one or more of their “four justice areas—economic, racial, climate, and health justice—as well as leadership, management, and philanthropy.” According to their climate justice senior editor, they pay $300 for web pieces. To learn more, refer to their submissions page.
Task & Purpose is an online news and culture publication for the next generation of American veterans. They are always seeking “stories on combat and what happens after, deep dives into the scourge of military sexual assault, or explainers on why the military is seeing an exodus of experienced military pilots.” They are also always looking for first-hand accounts and essays. They generally pay $500 per piece. To learn more, refer to this page.
Long Now is a non-profit organization that fosters long-term thinking. Their pitch guide says, “Our work encourages imagination at the timescale of civilization — the next and last 10,000 years — a timespan we call the long now.” They want stories that explore the ‘long now’ of climate change, the rise and fall of civilizations, biotechnology and artificial intelligence, economics, architecture, and more. They accept pitches for essays (1,200 - 3,000 words), reported features (1,200 to 3,000 words), interviews (2,000 to 3,000 words), book reviews, shorter articles, fiction, and poems for Ideas, their living archive of long-term thinking. Rates begin at $600 for features and essays and range between $300 and $600 for interviews, reviews, science journalism, and news articles. Rates are $100 for science fiction stories and $25 for poems. For more information, refer to their pitch guide.