News & Pitch Calls from Cosmopolitan

Tuesday, August 20th 2024

Cosmopolitan's Associate Sex & Relationships Editor is Seeking Pitches

Cosmopolitan is a women’s magazine for dating tips, sex advice, beauty tutorials, fashion trends, and more. Their associate sex & relationships editor is seeking pitches for Confessays, which are “erotic personal essays detailing real-life sexperiences—ideally of a particularly hot, surprising, out-there, or otherwise memorable nature.” Rate is $250. Rolling deadline. Send your pitches to kayla.kibbe@hearst.com. To read their editor’s post, click here. To learn more about them, click here.

Saturday, August 10th 2024

Cosmopolitan's Features Team is Looking for High-Impact Storytelling

Cosmopolitan is a women’s magazine for dating tips, sex advice, beauty tutorials, fashion trends, and more. Their features team is always looking for “bold, buzzy, high-impact storytelling that captures the current moment and reflects the experiences of young women specifically.” Rates are $1.50 to $2.00 per word. If interested, send your ideas to erin.quinlan@hearst.com. To learn more, refer to their features director’s post and their ‘about’ page.

Tuesday, June 4th 2024

Cosmopolitan is Seeking an Expert in Chinese Astrology to Write an SEO Explainer

Cosmopolitan is a women’s magazine for dating tips, sex advice, beauty tutorials, fashion trends, and more. Their senior astrology editor is seeking an expert in Chinese astrology to write an SEO explainer for Cosmo Astro. There is a potential for future projects as well. Rates begin at $200. If interested, email erika.smith@hearst.com ideally by Monday. To read their editor’s post, click here. To learn more about them, click here.

Deadline: June 10th, 2024

Friday, March 1st 2024

Cosmopolitan's Features Team is Seeking Nonfiction Stories

Cosmopolitan is a women’s magazine for dating tips, sex advice, beauty tutorials, fashion trends, and more. Their features team is seeking pitches for their fall issue. They want original nonfiction stories that have gripping narratives about memorable people. The stories should appeal to women under the age of 35 in the US. Pay is $1.50-$2.00 per word. Pitches should be sent to nicole.pasulka@hearst.com. To learn more, refer to their senior features editor’s post and their ‘about’ page.

Saturday, January 6th 2024

Cosmopolitan is Accepting Feature Pitches

Cosmopolitan is a women’s magazine for dating tips, sex advice, beauty tutorials, fashion trends, and more. Their target audience is women under the age of 35. Their senior features editor is always accepting feature pitches. They pay $1.50 to $2.00 per word for features (2,000-5,000 words). If interested, send your pitches to nicole.pasulka@hearst.com. To read their senior features editor’s post, click here. To learn more about them, click here.

Saturday, November 11th 2023

Cosmopolitan Is Accepting Pitches

Cosmopolitan is a women’s magazine for dating tips, sex advice, beauty tutorials, fashion trends, and more. Their Senior Features Editor is accepting pitches. The rate is $1.50-$2/word for 3,000 - 5,000 word articles. They are not looking for stories about artificial intelligence, abortion and reproductive rights, scammers, and true crime at this time. For more information, check out the editor's tweet

Saturday, September 30th 2023

Cosmopolitan is Seeking Pieces on Women's Sex Lives After 60

Cosmopolitan is a women’s magazine for dating tips, sex advice, beauty tutorials, fashion trends, and celebrity news. Their senior editor is looking for essays and opinion pieces on women’s sex lives after 60. They would particularly like POC and LGBTQ+ perspectives. Rate is $400+. Send your pitches to naureen.khan@hearst.com. To read their senior editor’s post, click here. To learn more about them, click here.

Deadline: October 13th, 2023

Saturday, September 9th 2023

Cosmopolitan is Seeking Deeply Reported Reads

Cosmopolitan is a women’s magazine for dating tips, sex advice, beauty tutorials, fashion trends, and celebrity news. Their features team is seeking your proposals for deeply reported reads for Spring 2024 and beyond. They will pay $1.50 to $2.00 per word for 2,500 to 4,000 words. Pitches should be sent to erin.quinlan@hearst.com. Pitches sent by September 12th will be extra appreciated. To learn more, refer to their features director’s post. To contact them, refer to this page.

Wednesday, June 7th 2023

Cosmopolitan is Looking for Features Related to Rebellion

Cosmopolitan is a women’s magazine for dating tips, sex advice, beauty tutorials, fashion trends, and celebrity news. Their features department is looking for proposals that are in some way related to the subject of REBELLION. The features should be timely, relevant to young women in the United States, and additive. Rates are $2/word for 3,000 words. Pitches can be sent to erin.quinlan@hearst.com. To learn more, refer to their features director’s Twitter thread. To contact them, refer to this page.

Deadline: June 14th, 2023

Tuesday, April 4th 2023

Cosmopolitan is Looking for Feature Pitches

Cosmopolitan is a women’s magazine for dating tips, sex advice, beauty tutorials, fashion trends, and celebrity news. Their features director is looking for audacious reads for their summer and fall issues: “investigative scoops, wild capers, subcultural odysseys—all fascinating proposals welcome.” Target word count is 2,000-3,000 words. Rate is $2 per word. If interested, email your pitches to erin.quinlan@hearst.com. To read their features director’s Twitter thread, click here. To learn more about them, click here.

Deadline: April 8th, 2023

Sunday, January 29th 2023

Cosmopolitan is Looking for Pitches for Pride Issue

Cosmopolitan is a women’s magazine for dating tips, sex advice, beauty tutorials, fashion trends, and celebrity news. Their features editor is looking for pitches for their upcoming Pride issue: “Profiles about complex figures who reflect something bigger in our culture; plot-driven narratives; thoughtful criticism. Very open interpretations of ‘pride’ encouraged.” Rate: $1.50 to $2.00 per word. Length: 2,000 to 3,000 words. To read their features editor’s Twitter thread, click here. To view their previous articles, click here.

Deadline: February 6th, 2023

Tuesday, January 24th 2023

Cosmopolitan is Looking for Reported Features for Pride Issue

Cosmopolitan is a women’s magazine for dating tips, sex advice, beauty tutorials, fashion trends, and celebrity news. Their features director is looking for reported features for their Pride issue. Rates are $1.50 to $2.00 a word. Pitches should be sent to erin.quinlan@hearst.com. To read their features director’s tweet, click here. To visit their website, click here.

Deadline: January 30th, 2023

Tuesday, November 22nd 2022

Cosmopolitan is Looking for Features

Cosmopolitan is a women’s magazine for dating tips, sex advice, beauty tutorials, fashion trends, and celebrity news. They are looking for feature pitches for their 2023 print issues. They want investigations and narrative reporting on “subjects of direct relevance to young women.” They don’t want personal essays. Rates are $1.50 to $2.00 per word. To learn more, refer to their features editor’s Twitter thread and this page.

Sunday, November 13th 2022

Cosmopolitan is Accepting Features on the Theme of Couples

Cosmopolitan is a women’s magazine for dating tips, sex advice, beauty tutorials, fashion trends, and celebrity news. Their features director has tweeted, “For the April issue of Cosmo, the features team is seeking proposals for immersive, richly reported reads that relate in *some* way to the theme of COUPLES (and other intimate configurations).” Pay is $1.50 to $2.00 per word. Pitches should be sent to erin.quinlan@hearst.com. To read their features director’s Twitter thread, click here. To visit their website, click here.

Deadline: November 16th, 2022

Sunday, October 16th 2022

Cosmopolitan is Accepting Entertainment Pitches

Cosmopolitan is a women’s magazine for dating tips, sex advice, beauty tutorials, fashion trends, and celebrity news. Their associate entertainment editor is always accepting pitches for their entertainment section. They are mainly seeking “opinion pieces, interesting interviews, introspective pieces, or special features.” They are not seeking listicles or reviews at the moment. Send your pitches to tfuentes@hearst.com. To read their associate entertainment editor’s Twitter thread, click here. To visit their website, click here.

Wednesday, August 10th 2022

Cosmopolitan is Looking for Feature Proposals

Cosmopolitan is a women’s magazine for dating tips, sex advice, beauty tutorials, fashion trends, and celebrity news. They are looking for feature proposals for their December issue. The theme is Party, but they will consider other topics as well. They are looking for deep-dive reported narratives, investigative projects, unorthodox stories and formats that defy succinct summary, and culturally significant trend pieces. Rate is $1.50 to $2.00 per word. To learn more, refer to this Twitter thread and their pitch guide.

Deadline: August 11th, 2022

Friday, August 5th 2022

Cosmopolitan UK's Sex and Relationships Editor is Accepting Pitches

Cosmopolitan UK is a women’s magazine for dating tips, sex advice, beauty tutorials, fashion trends, and celebrity news. Their sex and relationships editor for this month is seeking sex, dating, relationships, love and friendship pitches. They pay around £150 to £200 for features. Send your pitches to isabelle.aron@hearst.co.uk. To learn more, refer to their editor’s Tweet and their pitch guide.

Wednesday, July 13th 2022

Cosmopolitan UK's Features Director is Looking for Pitches

Cosmopolitan UK is a women’s magazine for dating tips, sex advice, beauty tutorials, fashion trends, and celebrity news. Their features director across print & digital wants pitches of your excellent, timely ideas. They pay around £150 to £200 per feature. Send your pitches to harriet.hall@hearst.co.uk. Read their features director’s Tweet here and their pitch guide here.

Tuesday, July 5th 2022

Cosmopolitan is Looking for Features Proposals

Cosmopolitan is a women’s magazine for dating tips, sex advice, beauty tutorials, fashion trends, and celebrity news. They are looking for feature proposals for their November print issue. The theme of the issue is COMEBACKS, but all good ideas are welcome. Their most urgent need is deep-dive reported narratives. They also want investigative projects, culturally significant trend pieces, non-celeb profiles, photo essays, and unorthodox stories and formats. They pay $1 to $2 per word. Pitches should be sent to erin.quinlan@hearst.com. For details, read their features director’s Twitter thread and their pitch guidelines.

Deadline: July 8th, 2022

Tuesday, April 5th 2022

Cosmopolitan is Looking for Travel Pitches

Cosmopolitan is a women’s magazine for dating tips, sex advice, beauty tutorials, fashion trends, and celebrity news. They are seeking timely feature proposals for their late-summer TRAVEL issue. Rate is $2 per word for pieces of 2,000 to 3,000 words. Send your pitches to erin.quinlan@hearst.com. For details, read their features director’s Twitter thread and their pitch guide.

Deadline: April 10th, 2022

Sunday, January 9th 2022

Cosmopolitan is Seeking Opinion Pitches

Cosmopolitan is a women’s magazine for dating tips, sex advice, beauty tutorials, fashion trends, and celebrity news. Their newly appointed senior opinion editor is seeking pitches for “personal essays, reported pieces, and cultural criticism” for their opinion section. “Topics can range from irreverent pop culture rants to nuanced takes on public policy.” Rates typically start at $250 to $350. Ideal word count is 600 to 900 words. If interested, email your pitches to patrice.peck@hearst.com. To learn more, refer to their opinion editor’s Twitter thread and their opinion section.

Tuesday, December 28th 2021

Cosmopolitan wants pitches on internet culture ideas, and more

The Culture Editor of Cosmopolitan has recently issued a call on Twitter; they want ~2K word reported trend stories “Give me your niche Internet culture ideas! TikTok subcult explainers! Little-known nuggets about big things happening in the astro/wellness space!” They do not want personal essays. Details here.
@lizabeth_kiefer


Tuesday, December 7th 2021

Cosmopolitan UK is Seeking Pitches for Career/Money Section

Cosmopolitan UK is a women’s magazine for dating tips, sex advice, beauty tutorials, fashion trends, and celebrity news. Their acting features director is looking for pitches for their career/money section: “I'm looking for anything helpful for new year vibes. Maybe you sorted your finances out? Changed career? Spotted a TikTok work trend? Or maybe you worked with a career coach or manifested a new path in your worklife? I want fun/inspiring/original content.” They pay £150 to £200 for features. For details, read their acting features director’s Twitter thread and their pitch guide.

Tuesday, November 23rd 2021

Cosmopolitan UK is Seeking Entertainment Pitches

Cosmopolitan UK is a women’s magazine for dating tips, sex advice, beauty tutorials, fashion trends, and celebrity news. Their acting entertainment editor has tweeted, “Looking for Entertainment pitches to run before 2022 -  topical, timely (Selling Sunset, Emily In Paris, And Just Like That etc) or a new take on the usual Christmas films (Love Actually, The Holiday, The Grinch ??).” Their rates start at £120. Pitches should be sent to dusty.baxter-wright@hearst.co.uk. Read their entertainment editor’s Tweet here and their pitch guide here.

Tuesday, September 28th 2021

Cosmopolitan UK is Looking for Love & Sex Pitches

Cosmopolitan UK is a women’s magazine for dating tips, sex advice, beauty tutorials, fashion trends, and celebrity news. Their acting love and sex editor is seeking story pitches for love & sex. Rates start at £120.  Send your pitches to bethany.ashley@hearst.co.uk. To learn more, refer to their editor’s Tweet and their pitch guide.

Sunday, September 5th 2021

Cosmopolitan UK is Seeking Pitches for Black History Month

Cosmopolitan UK is a women’s magazine for dating tips, sex advice, beauty tutorials, fashion trends, and celebrity news. Their features director is seeking pitches for Black History Month. Rate is £125 to £200 per piece. If interested, email your pitches to catriona.innes@hearst.co.uk. For more information, refer to their features director’s Tweet and their pitching guidelines.

Tuesday, July 20th 2021

Cosmopolitan UK is Seeking Pitches on Being Mates with Your Partner's Ex

Cosmopolitan UK is a women’s magazine for dating tips, sex advice, beauty tutorials, fashion trends, and celebrity news. Their sex & relationships editor is seeking “pitches on being mates with your partner's ex.” They pay £150 to £200 per piece. Send your pitches to paisley.gilmour@hearst.co.uk. For details, read their editor’s Tweet and their pitching guidelines.

Thursday, July 1st 2021

Cosmopolitan UK is Seeking Pitches about Love Island

Cosmopolitan UK is a women’s magazine for dating tips, sex advice, beauty tutorials, fashion trends, and celebrity news. Their sex & relationships editor has tweeted, “Love Island/journalist huns: a reminder I commission topical and newsy features hooked to the relationship and sex stuff that goes on in the show. If you spot a behaviour or theme and feel it says something about how we ~ as a society ~ view love and sex, pitch me!” Rate is £150 to £200 per piece. Pitches should be sent to paisley.gilmour@hearst.co.uk. To learn more, refer to their editor’s Tweet and their pitch guidelines.

Sunday, April 18th 2021

Cosmopolitan UK's Entertainment Editor is Accepting Pitches

Cosmopolitan UK is a women’s magazine for dating tips, sex advice, beauty tutorials, fashion trends, and celebrity news. Their acting entertainment editor is accepting “pitches on film, TV, Netflix, celebrity, horoscopes (all the fun things).” According to payment reports, they pay £100 to £200 per feature. If interested, email your pitches to dusty.baxter-wright@hearst.co.uk. For details, read their editor’s Twitter thread and their pitching guidelines.

Sunday, September 13th 2020

Cosmopolitan UK's Features Director is Looking for Pitches

Cosmopolitan UK is a women’s magazine for dating tips, sex advice, beauty tutorials, fashion trends, and celebrity news. Their features director is seeking pitches for READS for 2021 issues. According to one payment report, they paid $0.09/word for an 800-word feature. To learn more, refer to their features director’s Tweet and their pitching guidelines.

Sunday, May 24th 2020

Cosmopolitan is Always Accepting Pitches

Cosmopolitan is a women’s magazine for dating tips, sex advice, beauty tutorials, fashion trends, and celebrity news. According to their op-ed editor, they are always accepting pitches. Payment reports indicate that they pay an average of $1.05 per word. Send pitches to their op-ed editor at jessica.goodman@hearst.com. To learn more, refer to this Tweet and their op-ed section.