Welcome to the Freelance Writing Network!
The Freelance Writing Network is a newsletter featuring the most comprehensive list of high-quality freelance and creative writing opportunities available anywhere online.
Multiple times a week, we send out carefully curated lists of:
Active pitch calls from editors at magazines, newspapers, and digital outlets.
Collections of publications with themed and highly-paid opportunities, complete with the details you need to send your next pitch.
Freelance and remote writing jobs in journalism, content, comms, and creative media.
Paid editing, copywriting, and newsletter roles.
Bursaries, residencies, competitions, and lit mag submissions.
This isn’t a repackaged job board or a round-up of stale listings. Every opportunity is hand-picked, up-to-date, and chosen because it’s worth your time.
How does it work?
Opportunities are sent out via daily updates, with additional posts throughout the week including themed and high‑paying pitch roundups, creative roundups, live sessions, and practical resources.
Every listing includes key details where available (pay rate, topic focus, deadline, who to pitch, and what to include).
You’ll also see extra roundups each week, plus interviews, insights, and tools to help you build a sustainable writing career.
What do paid subscribers get?
For just $9.95/£8 per month, FWN members get the full experience, including:
📩 Daily updates with 180–200+ freelance and contract opportunities each week
🎙️ Twice‑monthly live sessions and workshops with working writers and editors
📋 The Live Pitch & Freelance Jobs Board, updated throughout the week
🗂️ Full premium archive access, with thousands of past opportunities
🏆 Themed and high‑paying pitch roundups, plus creative and full‑time roundups
✍️ Interviews with editors and freelancers on how to land assignments
💬 Subscriber‑only Q&As, discussions, and a growing community of writers
If you’re actively looking for writing work, trying to work out where to submit your writing, or ready to start pitching professionally, this is the only resource you need to move fast, stay ahead, and find opportunity that actually pay.
Why I started the Freelance Writing Network
Like many writers, I used to rely on newsletters and job boards to find decent writing work. But over time, the quality of those lists started to drop. Fewer leads. Lower pay. The same recycled calls showing up again and again.
So I started doing it myself.
Each week, my small team and I spend hours tracking new listings across dozens of sources—editors, hiring boards, Substacks, online communities, publication job pages, newsletter classifieds, mastheads, and more.
It’s meticulous work. But it’s worth it.
Each week sees 200+ new opportunities, including original pitch calls and hard-to-find gigs that haven’t yet gone viral.
Many of my subscribers tell me they land work directly through the newsletter, often from listings they say they couldn’t have found anywhere else.
This is the kind of newsletter I wish existed when I started out. So I built it.
Whether you’re writing features, essays, content, or copy… this newsletter helps you spend less time trawling job boards and more time getting commissioned!
I’ll see you in your inbox.
George,
Founder, The Freelance Writing Network
