✍️ 65 Highly Paid Calls for Pitches & Freelance Writing Jobs
The roundup that serious freelance writers open first.
Welcome to the latest FWN newsletter, with 65 new pitch calls, freelance & contract writing jobs.
This roundup is your Sunday edge: line up pitches, submissions, and applications now, so by the time everyone else opens their laptop tomorrow morning, your pitch is already waiting for them.
In freelance writing, this early access is the difference between your next high-paying commission or your name being lost in a pile of applicants.
What’s in today’s newsletter?
Among today’s new paid writing opportunities…
📢 Pitch calls are open across science, technology, politics, women’s issues, aviation, international affairs, anti-fascism, culture, and anime, including investigative features, essays, and first-person stories. Pay up to $1.25/word.
🎙️ Journalism and reporting roles include entertainment, sports, religion, local news, AI hardware, and international reporting opportunities. Pay up to $40/hour.
✍️ Copywriting and content writing opportunities span healthcare, tech, energy, SEO, ecommerce, travel, real estate, anime, and direct-response marketing. Pay up to $125/hour.
📝 Editing, editorial and strategy roles include engagement editing, proofreading, digital editing, commercial strategy, marketing strategy, and brand strategy work. Pay up to $150/hour.
Looking for freelance jobs outside of writing?
The Freelance Jobs Network has shared more than 220 non-writing jobs since the start of May. That’s the very best freelance gigs spanning marketing, comms, social media, strategy & more!
If you’re looking for non-writing freelance jobs, and want access to the best gigs throughout each week, make sure you check out the latest edition!👇
Monday 11th May
🆕 Pitch Calls
CLOSING SOON! OUTDOORS (COMMUNITY): Trails Magazine is open to pitches on backpacking and other human/naturally-powered means of sleeping outdoors: bikepacking, canoe camping, even things like rafting or mountaineering are fair game. The theme for their next issue is ‘Community’, and pitches are due in early May. Will pay writers $0.50-$2/word.
CLOSING SOON! STEEL INDUSTRY: Dialogue Earth is looking for data journalists or researchers to produce in-depth, data-driven features on the steel industry and its decarbonisation challenge. They are looking for pitches covering global trends in key issues in iron and steel decarbonisation, but particularly welcome pitches relevant to developments in China, India, Brazil and South Africa. Four grants of up to USD 3,300 available. Deadline May 11th.
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