Carefree is “a weekly newsletter from
Black female voices around the world on life, love, adventure and everything
in-between.” They are always seeking “pitches that speak firsthand to the Black
woman’s experience.” They pay $100
per article. Send your pitches to hello@carefreemag.com.
To learn more, visit this page.
HoneyColony is a magazine and marketplace that is dedicated to saving bees and putting honesty back into our food supply. They are seeking “experienced journalists who have written about food justice, personal transformation, and our planet.” According to their managing editor, they pay $75 per piece. To submit a pitch, visit this page.
Skin Deep makes “space for Black creatives and creatives of colour to work towards justice through cultural production.” They publish “writing, photography, video, illustration; features, interviews, explainers, analysis; fiction, non-fiction, or a hybrid of the two.” They prefer pieces of around 1,200 words. They pay £150 to £250 per piece. Send pitches or submissions to submissions@skindeepmag.com. To learn more, visit this page.
Rogue is an
Ireland-based online publication for women, by women. They publish personal essays,
opinion pieces, interviews, poems, and more. They accept pitches, not finished
pieces. They pay €150 for written pieces of 800+ words. To contact them, refer to this page.
The Atavist Magazine is a digital-only publication that releases one blockbuster nonfiction story every month. They are looking for “pitches for longform, character-driven, narrative nonfiction stories.” The stories should be 8,000 to 30,000 words long. According to their editor-in-chief, they pay at least $6,000 per story plus expenses. They pay kill fees upfront. For more information, visit this page.
Offbeat Research is “committed to producing rigorous, offbeat stories which emphasize social media and open-source investigation to explore niche, novel, or otherwise unexplored ideas.” They welcome investigative pitches. They pay $100 for articles of 1,000 words and up, and $200 for articles of 2,000 words and up. Send pitches to admin@offbeatresearch.com. For details, refer to this page.
NAZAR is an independent journalism project that covers surveillance. The project was launched by a Black Muslim journalist, Vanessa Taylor. They are open to guest coverage e.g. “op-eds from community organizers, youth targeted by surveillance programming, artists, and etc.” They pay $75 per piece. Send pitches to vanessa.taylorr@protonmail.com. To learn more about them and to contact them, visit this page.
Social Soundtrack is “a creative space dedicated to Black music, liberation, healing and resilience.” They accept stories about “music, literature, dance, visual art, poetry, or any form of creativity.” They pay $50 per article. Send pitches to lysaundrajanee@gmail.com. To learn more, refer to this page.
Mental Floss is a media brand that offers interesting facts, quizzes, trivia, and brain teasers to the audience. They are always seeking new voices to write about the diverse verticals they cover, “whether that's history, science, entertainment, language, pop culture, art, or beyond.” They accept pitches for lists and features. For lists, their rates start at $150. For short features of 500 words, their rates start at $125 and for longer features, rates start at $200. To learn how to send them a pitch, visit this page.
Mynah Magazine is an annual longform print magazine about Singapore's untold stories. They accept story pitches. It is not necessary for the contributors to be based in Singapore or be Singaporean. They pay 250-400 SGD per story. To learn more, refer to this page.