75+ calls for journalism/writing pitches (May 12, 2025)
I’ve seen the two extremes of the hotel-hopping journo life in the past week. Last week a press trip to a luxury hotel in London with gifts of wine and chocolate, city tours and extravagant dinners. The bed was a vast velvet nest, the bathroom a shrine to the god of care-free splashing, steam-proof mirrors and self-pampering, the bottled water from Nordic glaciers. This week, a work trip to Lisbon and the kind of hotel room that makes you chuckle ironically. The shower offers a single thread of tepid drips, the bed, a narrow single, is crammed up against a prickly wall, the toiletry branding mockingly commands guests to ‘Enjoy your life’. As for bottled water - I had to bring my own.
Calls for pitches below.
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We welcome your ideas. However we receive far more pitches than we can possibly use, and many fundamentally misunderstand The Conversation’s aims and audience, so please read and follow our guidance to help give your pitches the best chance of being commissioned.
https://theconversation.com/uk/pitches
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And we open new writer positions now!
Experienced blogger desired for a position, part-time, with the availability to telecommute and work remotely from anywhere.
https://www.prettydesigns.com/hiring/
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Here at R29, we love bringing you the latest news, most surprising advice, and smartest opinions from the best, most diverse voices out there — and we know for a fact that some of those great voices belong to all of you. We see it in the comments every day, and we'd love to start seeing it in our stories, too. So, we're looking for a few good women (or men), who happen to be experts in the areas below, to throw their hats in the ring and become R29 contributors.
https://www.refinery29.com/en-us/2014/04/66412/writing-for-r29
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Thank you for your interest in Salon. For a full masthead, please see our Staff page.
Pitches, queries, and submissions
https://www.salon.com/about/submissions
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Smithsonianmag.com accepts unsolicited proposals from established freelance writers. This form has been developed to give you the most direct and timely access to our editors. It also allows you to provide all of the basic information we need to make an initial determination about your proposal. Due to the volume of submissions, we cannot guarantee a response to all inquiries, but if we are interested in pursuing a story, we will contact you.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/contact/smithsonian-magazine-online-article-submissions/
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Thanks for your interest in the Upworthy freelance program. Please construct your pitch below, and we'll do our best to get back to you in a timely manner!
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSd4sLE6VZnAqhSGerVVIYnNy_isJvrU761uR2nY__lz7Tbr_A/viewform
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Want to write for YourTango? Send us your ideas!
Send pitches to our Editor at Large Andrea Zimmerman and include the word "Pitch" in your subject line. Please include your resume or bio and a link to a writing sample or blog if you have one. Your pitch should include a few lines detailing what you want to write about and how long you think it'll be. Pieces on our site are generally between 500 and 1200 words.
Please note! YourTango is all about the relationships you have with the most important people in your life (including yourself!) so anything you pitch should involve love, dating, marriage, divorce, parenting, mental health, sex and the like. A YourTango piece can be about almost anything—travel, food, fashion, current events—as long as it explains how the subject affects you or your relationship with another person.
We look to freelancers for personal essays, reported articles and service pieces. The YourTango voice is smart, playful and real. Read some pieces on the site before submitting your pitch to get a feel for our tone and the type of stories we publish.
https://www.yourtango.com/submissions
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We’re always looking for new authors. If you’ve got an idea that will challenge our readers and move our industry forward, we want to hear about it. But you don’t need to wait for an idea that will redefine web design. Just aim to bring readers a fresh perspective on a topic that’s keeping you up at night.
https://alistapart.com/about/contribute/
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Through our Write For Linode program, authors can contribute new guides and be paid for their work. We ask that interested authors apply to the program with one or more writing samples so that we can evaluate your work. To learn more about the program and to complete an application, please visit our Write For Linode program page.
https://www.linode.com/docs/guides/linode-writers-formatting-guide/
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Do you want to share your knowledge with the world and get paid to do it? SitePoint is always looking for talented writers to contribute their insights on technology.
https://www.sitepoint.com/write-for-us/