CharlottesvilleFamily Magazine is Central Virginia’s #1 guide for savvy parents—blending rural charm with small-city sophistication. They aim to provide engaging feature stories that showcase the best of what Charlottesville has to offer families, with topics covering parenting, education, dining, art, health, recreation, and connecting readers with local resources. According to their pitch guide, they pay $75-$250 for articles they commission, dependent on length/difficulty, and $50–$75 for reprints. To learn more, refer to this page.
Chalk is a new print magazine that champions good research, combining intelligent writing and beautiful design to tell interesting stories about history, culture, science, and nature. They want great ideas and unexpected stories. Features should average around 3,000 words but might be more or less depending on the subject. Short features should be around 1,500 words. They pay all of their contributors. To learn more, refer to this page.
ArtsHub is Australia’s leading destination for the Arts Industry, artists and arts and entertainment lovers. Industry news, reviews, events, jobs, courses, grants and opportunities. They offer a paid opportunity for freelance writers who want to write about the visual arts, performing arts, writing and publishing, arts management and other aspects of the creative industries. They're seeking well-researched feature stories of between 800-1200 words that look closely at a topic and include one to three interviews. To learn more, refer to this page.
Plough Publishing House, founded in 1920, is an independent publisher of books on faith, society, and the spiritual life. They publish Plough Quarterly, a bold new magazine of stories, ideas, and culture to inspire faith and action. They accept submissions of nonfiction articles, reviews, art, and letters to the editor. Some of the topics they cover include religion, culture, and education and vocation. They are able to pay for articles upon publication. To learn more, refer to this page.
Piccalilli is a publication from Set Studio that has one aim: level up your front-end skills. Its goal is to provide high quality educational content in the form of articles, quick tips and courses, written by industry experts. They aim for content under 1,000 words. Topics include using the most modern CSS capabilities with a progressive enhancement mindset, UX and UI design, and JavaScript. According to their pitch guide, they pay £200. To learn more, refer to this page.
Project Optimist is an independent, digital news outlet featuring solution-centered journalism & art. They are looking for stories that fall under the topics they cover: the environment, business, social issues, or art in greater Minnesota. They are open to pitches for feature, explanatory, and solutions reporting. According to their pitch guide, they pay about $500-$1,000 per piece. Rates are negotiable based on experience, story idea, and story length. To learn more, refer to this page.
CSS-Tricks is a web design community powered by DigitalOcean. They are looking for articles in the range of 600-1,500 words, and visual aides are strongly encouraged. According to their guidelines, they pay $250 USD for the vast majority of articles. To learn more, refer to this page.
The Humanist is a quarterly publication of ideas and action focusing on the philosophy of humanism—a naturalistic and progressive outlook informed by science, inspired by art, and motivated by compassion. They are interested in receiving pitches for pieces that explore specialized topics (from politics to pop culture) relevant to humanism, columns recounting life experiences or “deconversion” stories, editorials, and book and film reviews. They have a limited budget for compensating authors. To learn more, refer to this page.
The Big Idea is “the largest and leading online resource for the arts in New Zealand.” They’re open for submissions from both experienced and emerging writers. They publish long and short-form articles covering “news, events, people, places, and concerns in the arts sectors.” Their focus is “exclusively on the arts in Aotearoa or New Zealand artists.” At the moment, they’re commissioning stories in the following columns: Pathfinders (800 to 1,200 words), Road Trip (800 to 1,200 words), Soapbox (800 to 1,200 words), Feature (up to 2,500 words), News (up to 1,200 words), and Arts Smarts. According to their guidelines, pay is about 30 cents a word. If interested, send your pitches to editor@thebigidea.co.nz. To learn more, refer to this page.
Terrain.org is the first online literary journal of place, publishing award-winning literature, art, editorials, and community case studies since 1998. They accept the finest poetry, essays, fiction, and articles. According to their guidelines, they pay all contributors $50 per published submission. To learn more, refer to this page.
Contemporary Verse 2's primary aim is to educate, engage, and expand public appreciation of the poetic art form by sharing and promoting high-calibre, original verse and critical writing by local, national, and international poets. They offer free submissions to all Canadians and Canadians residents, but international submitters have to pay a fee to apply. According to ther guidelines, they pay $35 per poem, $75-$150 for interviews, $75-$150 for articles, $75-$150 for essays, $65-$100 for reviews, and $65-$150 for web-only content. To learn more, refer to this page.
Mizna presents contemporary, critical, and experimental art, writing, and film centering the work of Arab and Southwest Asian and North African artists. In general, literary works of poetry, visual poetry, fiction, flash fiction, nonfiction, creative nonfiction, and comics are considered. According to one of their calls, contributors receive a $200 honorarium. To learn more, refer to the bottom of this page.
Fairy Tale Review is an annual literary journal dedicated to publishing new fairy tales and to helping raise public awareness of fairy tales as a diverse, innovative art form. They consider prose fiction, verse fiction, nonfiction, creative scholarship, and poetry; they also welcome work that does not fall neatly into any category. According to their guidelines, they pay a $50 honorarium. To learn more, refer to this page.
Grain is an internationally acclaimed literary journal that publishes engaging, surprising, eclectic, and challenging writing and art by Canadian and international writers and artists. They are interested in poetry, fiction, and literary nonfiction. According to their guidelines, all contributors, regardless of genre, are paid $50 per page to a maximum of $250. To learn more, refer to this page.
The Suburban Review is a quarterly digital journal of short fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry and art. They’re interested in publishing the work of writers from all over Australia and the world. According to their guidelines, they pay $450 for fiction of 2000-2500 words, $400 for creative non-fiction of 1250-2000 words, and $375 for one poem over 30 lines. To learn more, refer to this page.
The Offing is an online literary magazine publishing creative writing in all genres and art in all media. According to their guidelines, they pay a $25–$100 fee, depending on department and number/length of works published. To learn more, refer to this page.
Solarpunk Magazine publishes fiction, poetry, essays, and art that envisions a hopeful and sustainable future. According to their guidelines, they pay 10 cents per word for fiction ($100 minimum), $50 per poem, and $100 per essay or article. To learn more, refer to this page.
Ninth Letter is the award-winning literary arts journal edited and produced by the Creative Writing Program at the University of Illinois. They are interested in prose and poetry that experiment with form, narrative, and nontraditional subject matter, as well as more traditional literary work. They charge a submission fee, but there are waivers. According to their guidelines, they pay $25 per poem and $100 for prose. To learn more, refer to this page.
Mud Season Review is an international literary journal run by members of the Burlington Writers Workshop, a free writing workshop based in Vermont. They seek deeply human work that will teach something about life, but also about the craft of writing or visual art. According to their guidelines, they pay $50 for work that appears in their issues. To learn more, refer to this page.
The Polis Project, Inc. is “a New York-based digital magazine and a hybrid research and journalism organisation that documents communities in resistance at the intersection of politics, art and culture.” They’re open to pitches from writers of all experience levels and from anywhere in the world. They accept submissions for both their politics and culture sections, though they don’t believe in air-tight distinctions between the two. According to their guidelines, they pay $100 to $400. To learn more, refer to their submissions page.
Design Observer is “a leading platform offering thought-provoking content on design, culture, and social innovation.” According to their guidelines, they offer a $150 honorarium for art-eds, op-eds, and essays (around 800 to 900 words). Rates begin at $1.50/word for commissioned short pieces that include original reporting and sourcing (usually 500 to 900 words). To learn more, refer to their call for pitches.
Belmont Story Review is a national magazine of literary arts, faith and culture. They seek to publish new and established writers, and feature works of fiction, creative nonfiction, and poetry. According to their guidelines, they pay $100 for prose and $50 for poetry. To learn more, refer to this page.
Split Lip Magazine is a literary journal that loves stories, poetry and art. They only accept free submissions a few times a year. According to their guidelines, they pay $75 per author for poems, memoirs, flash, fiction, art, and interviews/reviews, and $50 for mini-reviews for our web issues. To learn more, refer to this page.
Nashville Review is an online, MFA student-run literary magazine at Vanderbilt University. A triannual review, they publish fiction, poetry, comics, art, nonfiction, and performance art videos. They consider submissions in fiction, poetry, and nonfiction two times a year — August and January. According to their guidelines, they pay $25 per poem and $100 for prose and art pieces. To learn more, refer to this page.
Oestrogeneration is a magazine platform highlighting the voices of trans women and transfeminine writers in the UK. They publish essays, opinion pieces, first-person stories, arts and culture content, pop culture reviews, think-pieces and other forms of journalistic writing with a word limit of 1200. According to their pitch guide, they pay a flat rate of £50 per piece. To learn more, refer to this page.
Rooted is a publication uplifting underrepresented voices in media, arts, and entertainment. They are interested in interviews and profiles, media commentary and critiques, narrative journalism, personal essays, news, and reviews. Their rates are negotiable depending on the needs of a story and are determined at the time of assignment. They pay a 50% cancellation fee. To learn more, refer to this page.
EPOCH publishes fiction, poetry, essays, comics, and graphic art. In continuous publication since 1947, the magazine is edited by students and faculty of the MFA Program in Creative Writing, in Cornell University’s Department of Literatures in English. They are open for electronic submissions only during the months of August and January. Each submission costs $3, but there is a free-submission weekend during each submission period. According to their guidelines, they presently pay between $100 and $500 for poetry, prose, and comics, depending on length. To learn more, refer to this page.
The Skinny presents a cross-section of the most exciting cultural happenings across Scotland. They cover the best new music, film, comedy, theatre, visual art, food and drink, club nights, literature and spoken word to be found in Edinburgh, Glasgow and beyond. They're seeking features between 700-1400 words and reviews of 200-400 words. According to their payments page, they pay between £40-65 for a feature, and between £10-20 for a review. To learn more, refer to this page.
Artdose Magazine is an independent print and digital art magazine based in Wisconsin, committed to connecting and supporting the visual arts in the Midwest. They are seeking arts writers from Illinois, Iowa, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. They're looking for articles (500 words max) on visual arts-related topics that have connection to the writer's region, state, or art community. They are open to submissions from arts writers at all skill levels and experience. According to their pitch guide, they pay $125 per selected article for print only and $50 per review for online only. To learn more, refer to this page.
Broad Sound is “a journal of arts and culture.” They’re always seeking new work on film, music, literature, visual art, and more. According to their pitch guide, they pay $100 per piece. If interested, email your pitches to broadsoundmag@gmail.com. To learn more, refer to this page.