Woman's Day is a website and a monthly magazine that offers healthy recipes, home decor ideas, and relationship advice to women. Their editors only work with writers with significant national writing experience. According to their senior digital editor, their rates start at $150 per piece. Send your ideas or manuscripts to womansday@hearst.com. Read their writer’s guidelines here.
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.
Inverse covers science, innovation, entertainment, gaming, and the mind and body. According to their senior entertainment editor, they pay $0.50 per word. Send your pitches to pitch@inverse.com. To contact them, refer to this page.
Podcast Review is an online magazine that publishes podcast reviews, best podcast lists, and essays about podcasts. They pay $50-$75 per article. Writers should send their pitches to submit@podcastreview.org. For details, refer to this page.
Faith & Leadership is a biweekly, online magazine that is a learning resource for Christian leaders. They are always seeking new writers and stories. Their feature articles are 1,500-2,000 words, essays are 800-1,000 words, and Q&As are 1,000-1,500 words. They pay $1,500 for feature articles and $300 for essays. They also pay for mileage, parking, and other expenses. For details, read their submission guidelines.
EachOther is a UK-based human rights project. They are always seeking compelling story pitches and new contributors. They pay £50 per opinion piece (400 to 600 words) for their Inspired Source series (a solutions-focused opinion piece series). To learn more, refer to this page.
Aligned Magazine is a lifestyle journal with a goal to “nourish a community of yoga-inspired individuals through stories, visual essays, and local gatherings.” They “explore the crossroads of well-being, culture, and social responsibility.” They accept articles, critical analyses, essays, interviews, fiction, poetry, and art/illustration. According to their founder, they pay $100 per profile. 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.
Dwell focuses on modern architecture and design. They publish “home tours, interviews, and essays illuminating the power of smart design.” According to their executive editor, they pay $200-$400+ per piece. Send your pitches to edit@dwell.com. To learn more, visit this page.
Whetstone Magazine is a print and digital magazine about global food culture and origins. According to their founder, they pay $300 per piece. Send your pitches to editor@whetstonemagazine.com. To contact them, refer to this page.
T3 is a UK-based print magazine and website that covers laptops, smartphones, audio, gaming, fitness, living, style, travel, and more. They publish news, reviews, guides, and features. According to their AV and smart home editor, they usually pay 14p per word. To learn more about them and to contact them, refer to this page.
Faithfully Magazine is a news and culture publication that amplifies Christian communities of color. They publish insightful Q&As, features, profiles (500-800 words), historical biographies (500-800 words), reviews (500-800 words), opinion and analysis (up to 2,500 words), commentaries, and news and lifestyle articles (500-800 words). They pay $50 to $100 per piece. For details, refer to their submissions guide.
i-D is a fashion and style publication by Vice Media. They are always seeking new writers and voices. Most of their articles are 1,000 words long. According to payment reports, they pay up to $0.33 per word. Send your pitches to pitches@i-d.co. To learn more, visit this page.
The Specialty Coffee Association (SCA) is a nonprofit, membership-based organization that represents coffee professionals all over the world. Their “aim is to provide thoughtful reported stories, insightful personal narratives, and plain-language coverage of coffee research that shine a light on the specialty coffee community or its work in some way.” They are always seeking new contributors. According to payment reports, they pay 17.5 to 22.5 cents per word. Send pitches to editor@sca.coffee. Details here and here.
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.
AssociationSuccess.org offers online leadership training to association industry professionals (i.e. people who run professional and social organizations). Through their articles, eBooks and collaborative virtual conferences, they look to inspire positive change within associations. According to their content manager, they pay $0.25 per word for blog posts of 400 to 800 words. To contact them, refer to this page.
The Performance Menu Journal is a monthly digital magazine that covers Olympic weightlifting, strength and conditioning, and nutrition. They are always seeking submissions and new contributors. They publish articles on a wide range of topics including “weightlifting, powerlifting, throwing, sprinting, gymnastics, strongman, grip training, strength training, strength & conditioning, crossfit / grid, personal training, gym & related business, and nutrition.” According to their editor, they pay $100 for 1,000 words. To learn more, read their submission guidelines.
GreenBiz is a business-to-business media company that focuses on corporate sustainability practice and strategy. They are looking for both shorter (500 to 800 words) and longer (800 to 1,200 words) pieces across a range of topics. Their target audience is senior leaders in large corporations. These senior leaders’ “firms are driven by hardcore business goals as much as by sustainability ones, and they’re seeking to align the two.” According to their editorial director, they pay $200 to $500 per piece. To learn more, refer to this page.
Certified Forgotten is a podcast in which film critics Matt Donato and Matt Monagle “unearth the most memorable horror films that feature five or fewer reviews on RottenTomatoes.” They are expanding into editorial content and are seeking pitches for features. They will pay $75 per feature. Send pitches to certifiedforgotten@gmail.com. To learn more, refer to this page. Read their pitching guidelines here.
African Arguments is a pan-African platform that analyzes issues facing the continent, investigates the stories that matter, and amplifies a diversity of voices. They cover politics, economy, society, culture, the environment, gender, and more. They pay an average of $200 for 1,000 to 2,000 words. To learn more, refer to their writing guidelines.
Kitchen Witch is a newsletter that covers “anything that hits the intersection of food and witchcraft—whether that’s a recipe for a honey jar, the history of altar cakes, or even a deep-dive into food-adjacent topics, like ancient Icelandic farting spells and how they relate to food.” They accept pitches at KitchenWitchJen@gmail.com. They pay $50 for reprints and $100 for original articles (of up to 300 to 400 words). To learn more, visit this page. UPDATE: Even though they make it clear on their website that they accept pitches, and pay writers, we have heard reports that they do not actually have a budget to pay writers. We recommend not pitching this publication.
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.
The Archive explores “the lost chapters of the past—from history’s enduring mysteries to astonishing encounters with the natural world.” They welcome pitches from freelancers. According to their senior editor, they pay $100 for 800 to 1,000 words. Send your pitches to editor@explorethearchive.com. To learn more, visit this page.
Tom’s Guide covers all things consumer tech including smartphones, cameras, wearables, video games, TVs, and drones. They offer news, product reviews, price comparisons, and more. According to their managing editor, they typically pay $450 and up per review. Contact them here. Learn more about them here.
Craft Industry Alliance is a “trusted source of industry information, creative inspiration, and community for craft professionals.” They “hire writers to cover stories in all sectors of the craft industry and to explore topics related to entrepreneurship and small business for creatives.” According to their president and co-founder, they pay $200 for 1,000-word pieces. Send pitches to hello@craftindustryalliance.org. To learn more, refer to 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.
Explore is a lifestyle magazine for active outdoor-loving Canadians. They cover outdoor adventure, hiking, climbing, mountain biking, kayaking, camping, winter sports, and more. Their content is largely Canadian. According to their online editorial and community manager, for online pieces, they pay $50 to $75 CAD for 500 to 600 words and $80 to $150 CAD for 800 to 1,000+ words. To learn more, read their contributor guidelines.
Vogue Business is an online fashion industry publication. They “offer a truly global perspective on the fashion industry, exploring how cultural trends and global patterns will impact fashion businesses.” According to their senior features editor, they typically pay £550 for a reported feature story of around 800 words. To learn more about them and to contact them, visit this page.