Black Ballad is a UK based lifestyle platform that seeks to tell the human experience through eyes of black British women. They only commission those with the lived experience of being a Black woman, Black transwoman or Black non-binary person to achieve their mission and vision. They cover a range of topics from politics and pop culture through to beauty, careers, relationships and family life which explore the multi-faceted nuances of Blackness. All writers are paid. To learn more, refer to this page.
Good Tape is a magazine and creative studio based in Los Angeles and Brooklyn. They aim to elevate both cultural and critical coverage of the podcast industry. According to their pitch information, rates for digital starts at $0.30/word and $0.50/word for print, both of which informs a flat fee. To learn more, refer to this page.
The Cut publishes stories that address their readers’ lives head-on, with generous wit, honesty, and power. They are in a dynamic conversation with women about the issues that matter to them most — politics, feminism, work, money, relationships, mental health, fashion, and issues relating to equality — and they're always looking for ideas that add to that conversation. They are looking smart, generous, funny writing for their four verticals: POWER, SELF, STYLE, and CULTURE. According to their guidelines, they pay $500 minimum for essays and columns (1,000–1,500 words) and $600 minimum for features (1,500–2,000) words. To learn more, refer to this page.
FlickeringMyth.com is a movie and pop culture website with news, reviews, interviews, features and opinions across the worlds of film, TV, comic books, video games, toys and collectibles and more. They are always open to freelance contributions and pitches, and are looking for opinion pieces, list-based articles, recurring columns and other feature pieces. They occasionally have openings for reviews as well. Pay rates are not mentioned. To learn more, refer to this page.
TheReviewGeek writes film, TV, books, games, music and videogame reviews. They are looking for writers as passionate about media as they are. Pay rates are not mentioned, but they mention working on a pay-per-post basis. To learn more, refer to this page.
DADDY Magazine is a Black-owned, Berlin-based publication that centres underrepresented communities by giving their contributors the freedom to tell their stories, their way. To pitch them, refer to this page.
Transitions (formerly Transitions Online) is a nonprofit media organization based in Prague that focuses on in-depth journalism and media development across Central and Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. They cover topics such as politics, society, environment, and media freedom, often highlighting underreported stories from the region. To send them a pitch, read their submission guidelines here.
Unwinnable is a website and digital magazine, founded in 2010 to provide a different kind of cultural criticism. They are looking for stories about comics, movies, TV shows, tabletop games, music. According to their pitch guide, they pay up to $150 for stories (1,500 words), $10 to $25 for essays (500 words and 375 words respectively), and $15 for short stories (1000 words). To learn more, refer to their submission guidelines.
Fine Books Magazine is a quarterly magazine about rare books, manuscripts, maps, fine art, and more. They’re 90% freelance written. They welcome proposals from freelance writers, and also assign them topics. Their features are generally 1,500 to 2,000 words long, and they buy about 8 of them a year. The digest section of the magazine contains shorter, newsier pieces of 500 to 700 words. Digest is divided into 3 categories: book, art, and object. They have mentioned negotiating rates with writers based on experience with the subject matter and the level of research. According to a deleted post by their editor, they pay between $200 and $600 per piece. For more information, refer to their guidelines for writers.
Final Gravity tells personal, human-centered stories about beer. They publish writing focused on people, places, ingredients, sensory experiences, cultural intersections, and the holistic ways we interact with and around beer. According to their pitch guide, their rates are about $0.15–$0.20 per word. For short pieces, they pay $125–$175; short features, $175–$250; longer features, $225–$300; and art features, $100. Poetry pays $50 per poem. If a writer is able to take their own quality photography for an article, they pay an extra $25. To learn more, refer to this page.