Tuesday, March 21st 2023
Autostraddle is an LGBTQ+ online sphere for women and non-binary people. Their culture editor is seeking personal narratives about money from Black queer/lesbian writers. They’re looking to assign the following pieces:
- “Saving
up for surgeries, home, travel
-
Mismatched finances w/ partner(s)
-
Paying debts while still enjoying life
- Moving into a new income bracket”
They’re also open to other money-related pitches. Rate is $100 to $150 per piece (750 to 950 words). If interested, email shelli@autostraddle.com. To read their culture editor’s Twitter thread, click here. To visit their ‘contact’ page, click here.
Deadline: April 1st, 2023
Tuesday, January 3rd 2023
Autostraddle is an LGBTQ+ online sphere for women and non-binary people. Their culture editor is accepting pitches on all things culture. Payment is $100 to $200 per piece. Black queer to the front. Send your pitches to shelli@autostraddle.com. Read their culture editor’s tweet here. Contact them here.
Thursday, November 3rd 2022
Autostraddle is an online sphere for lesbian, bisexual, and queer women. They are looking for a trans man to write a holiday gift guide for their "dapper/stylish trans boyfriend." Pay is $125. If interested, email ro@autostraddle.com. To learn more, refer to this Tweet. To contact them, refer to this page.
Deadline: November 4th, 2022
Sunday, July 10th 2022
Autostraddle is an online sphere for lesbian, bisexual, and queer women. They are looking for US-based queer women and trans writers (particularly BIPOC) to write personal essays about how their state’s abortion restrictions are impacting their sex life and relationship(s). Pay is $200. Pitches should be sent to ro@autostraddle.com. To learn more, refer to their sex & dating editor’s Twitter thread. To contact them, refer to this page.
Tuesday, April 19th 2022
The Culture Editor of Autostraddle has
recently issued a pitch call on Twitter. “Wanna
write about why (and where) there is space for regency era scoops of sapphic
& dollops of dyking on Bridgerton for me at @autostraddle?! ... Black folks
to the front”. Pay is $100-125 for works of 900-1,000 words. You can read about
the publication’s focus here.
Sunday, May 23rd 2021
Autostraddle is an online sphere for
lesbian, bisexual, and queer women. They are looking for a queer Latinx writer for
the fifth anniversary of Pulse. They want an “essay with a strong personal
angle or reflections on where we are five years later.” Puerto Rican, Caribeñx,
and Afro-Latinx writers are strongly encouraged. They will pay $100 to $250 for
1,000 to 2,000 words. For a longer essay or feature, they will pay up to $300
or $350. Pitches should be emailed to carmen@autostraddle.com.
To learn more, refer to their interim editor-in-chief’s Twitter
thread and their submissions
page.
Monday, April 19th 2021
This call, titled ‘Trans Fiction, Trans Imagination’,
is for short stories from writers who identify as trans. This is a six-month
series, for six stories. Their guidelines say, “There’s no thematic
requirement. The work need not contain queer and trans characters or content
(though by all means, it can).” They have also issued a call for trans
illustrators (see guidelines). Each story will be accompanied by an
illustration.
Length: Up to 5,000 words
Pay: $150 for fiction, $100 for illustrations
Details here.
Deadline: 30 April 2021
Tuesday, February 2nd 2021
Autostraddle is an online sphere for
lesbian, bisexual, and queer women. They are seeking pitches for essays, interviews, reported
pieces, criticism, poetry, and visual art from Black queer writers and artists for
their Black History Month series. They want to know, “what’s shaking you to your core? How have you been
pouring into your communities? Or, lately what’s been pouring into you? What are you releasing to lighten your load?
What queer ancestral knowledge are you packing in your Go Bag as a blueprint
for what’s yet to come? How are you seeing or redesigning the beauty and
brilliance of Blackness?” Pay is $200 to $300. To learn more, refer to this Tweet
and this form.
Deadline: February 7th, 2021
Friday, September 18th 2020
Autostraddle is an online sphere for
lesbian, bisexual, and queer women. For Latinx Heritage Month, they are
looking for personal essays, cultural criticism, reported pieces, and more on
the theme of death and rebirth. They encourage submissions from Black and
Indigenous Latinx folks. Pay is $100 to $300. For details, refer to this Twitter thread
and this page.