Asian Dispatch is “a pan-Asia newsroom and network, producing and publishing public interest journalism.” They want to hear from you if you have “a story that investigates structural issues in your home country, has a news peg and includes unique access.” They accept reported stories, interviews / profiles of notable figures, and reported analysis of current news. According to a post by their editorial leader, they pay $250 for pieces that are up to 1,500 words long, and $350 for longer, cross-border reporting. If interested, send your pitches to hello@asiandispatch.net. To contact them, refer to this 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.
Animal Wellness provides educational content to help dogs and cats live the most naturally long, healthy and happy life possible. They welcome unsolicited articles and story outlines as long as they focus on holistic healing, whether physical, emotional or spiritual. Articles may range in length from 500 to 1,500 words. They pay for unlimited rights only; pay rates are not mentioned. To learn more, refer to this page.
Ruffwear is an outdoor dog gear brand based in Bend, Oregon. They have previously indicated to be looking for personal stories that tell the tale of outdoor experiences you’ve shared with your dog(s) – anything from an epic adventure to those everyday moments when you seek fresh air with your canine sidekick. They only accept writers based in the US and Canada. Stories should be roughly 800-1000 words and have 8-10 photos, and pay was $500 per story. Their pitch guide is no longer available. To contact them, refer to this page.
TheCollector broadens their audience's understanding of the humanities through articles and discoveries from ancient history to the modern era. They are looking for writers who hold an educational degree in the topics they write about or are a researcher or academic with a university or university-affiliated research institution. According to their write for us page, they pay $30-50 per article. To learn more, refer to this page.
Raconteur is interested in what connects business. From the rise of the four-day week to supply chain risk to the journey to net zero, they want to tell the stories impacting leaders and driving change in the business world. They encourage writers from any background to pitch them. They only accept pitches on topics that are in upcoming reports. These cover a broad range of subjects and are usually commissioned around four weeks ahead of publication. Pieces tend to be between 1,000 and 1,200 words, but can go up to 2,000. They're looking for a variety of formats, from profile interviews to listicles, for and against debates to more standard features. They pay on a per-word basis. To learn more, refer to this page.
The African Leadership Magazine focuses on bringing the best of Africa to a global audience, telling the African story from and African perspective; while evolving solutions to peculiar challenges being faced by the continent today. They welcome unsolicited news stories, articles, and blog posts. Submissions for one of their blog sections should range between 400 and 800 words, while feature articles generally start at around 1000 words. Payments must be agreed upon by the editor in advance. To learn more, refer to this page.
China Books Review is a digital magazine on all things China and bookish. They are a literary review for all general readers interested in China and the Sinophone world, publishing reviews, essays, excerpts and more. They are interested in pitches for reviews, essays, excerpts, and profiles. According to their pitch guide, they pay a competitive flat rate for all original articles, roughly equivalent to 25c/word. To learn more, refer to this page.
Protocolized is the Summer of Protocols (SoP) research program’s year-round publication. Members of the protocol research community﹣SoP alumni, hobbyist researchers, and guest lecturers alike﹣write every essay, case study, and sci-fi story you will find there. They publish three types of pieces: stories, studies, and science. Writers should aim for a lenght of 1,500–2,500 words. According to their guidelines, they pay USD $600 upon publication. To learn more, refer to this page.
ConnecticutHistory.org, a project of Connecticut Humanities, is a state public history resource written for a diverse set of readers, ranging from students to educators to history buffs. They provide engaging, well-researched stories about Connecticut history that link to reliable primary and interpretive resources. They are looking for concise, compelling, Connecticut-focused articles written for a public audience (aim for a 7th grade reading level). Each article should be well-researched, using both primary and secondary sources. Articles run anywhere between 350 to 1,200 words. They offer writers a modest payment per article. To learn more, refer to this page.
Speculative Insight is “a journal that explores the breadth and depth of the themes, ideas, and issues of science fiction and fantasy.” They have previously indicated to pay AUD 5c per word, up to $150, for essays of 2,000 to 3,000 words. Current information on pitching is unclear. To contact them, refer to this page.
SBS Food is a 24/7 foodie channel for all Australians, with a focus on simple, authentic and everyday food inspiration from cultures everywhere. They accept pitches for features and first-person yarns. According to their pitch guide, their rates are comparative to other digital publishers, and they mostly publish pieces in the 600-800 word range. To learn more, refer to this page.
ExpatDen’s mission is to make it easy for current and future expats all over the world to comfortably and confidently live, work, study, retire, or start a business abroad. They publish reviews and guides. They pay based on experience level and the topic assigned to the writer. To learn more, refer to this page.
Crypto News Australia provides the most relevant Bitcoin, cryptocurrency & blockchain news. They are looking for freelance writers and journalists based in Australia, who have a strong understanding of cryptocurrency, blockchain, and the digital asset industry. According to their pitch guide, rates are competitive. To learn more, refer to this page.
The Global Investigative Journalism Network publishes articles about the practice of investigative journalism around the world. They're always on the lookout for contributors interested in writing about the craft of muckraking. Their contributors have expertise in investigative journalism and their stories generally run from 500-1500 words. Their pay is competitive, and is dependent on specialization and experience. To learn more, refer to this page.
The Jewish Independent strives to reflect the diversity of the Jewish community, both in Australia and abroad. They welcome ideas for stories. Pay rates are not mentioned. To learn more, refer to this page.
Refinery29 looks to amplify underrepresented voices and how they are impacted by policy, represented in pop culture, and forge their own paths. They want stories that are surprising, illuminate the world around us, and are written through a local lens. According to their publishing guidelines, personal essays and shorter reported articles will start at AUD$200 and go up from there depending on the piece. A thorough explainer, or something that involves multiple interviews, will start at AUD$300. To learn more, refer to this page.
Griffith Review is a quarterly literary journal. Every edition explores a different theme, bringing together long-form critical and analytical non-fiction and creative writing from the finest emerging and established writers from Australia and overseas. They run open calls for submissions throughout the year. According to their guidelines, fiction and non-fiction commissioned for the print edition is paid at AUD$0.75 per word, poetry is paid at AUD$200 per poem, and work commissioned for GR Online is paid at AUD $500 per piece. To learn more, refer to this page.
About Time is the national newspaper for Australian prisons and detention facilities. They prioritise submissions from people who were formerly incarcerated, but encourage everyone to pitch them, and are interested in publishing personal stories and experiences. According to their guidelines, they usually pay $0.70c per word, up to $400 per story. To learn more, refer to this page.
Railroad Model Craftsman is a railroading magazine published by White River Productions. They always welcome detailed articles describing efforts to model locomotives, rolling stock, structures, scenery and model railroad-related accessories along with photo tours of finished layouts. They pay for submissions featured in the print edition; pay rates are not mentioned. To learn more, refer to this page.
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 $100 per author for poems, memoirs, flash, fiction, art, and interviews/reviews, and $50 for mini-reviews for their web issues. To learn more, refer to this page.
EVENT is one of Western Canada’s longest-running literary magazines, and publishes contemporary new poetry and prose. They normally have two open submissions windows per year, and are looking for fiction, poetry, non-fiction, and reviews. According to their guidelines, they pay $40/page for poetry and $35/page for prose, up to a maximum of $500. To learn more, refer to this page.
Sci Phi Journal is a cosy waystation for travellers who, through no fault of their own, find themselves at the cosmic intersection between speculative philosophy, cultural anthropology and hard SF. They are not too keen on stories predominantly about the sentiments and subjective experiences of fictional people. They want hard SF that zooms out of the personal and lifts off into the structural, the systemic, the epic. They are looking for stories no longer than 2000 words. According to their guidelines, they pay 3 (Euro) cents per word for original fiction, and are unable to provide payment for non-fiction. To learn more, refer to this page.
Electric Literature is a nonprofit digital publisher with the mission to make literature more exciting, relevant, and inclusive. They accept submissions of short stories, personal narratives, cultural criticism, poetry, flash prose, and graphic narratives through Submittable during designated submission periods two to four times a year. Pitches for critical essays, humor pieces, interviews, and reading lists are accepted via email year-round. According to their guidelines, they pay $300 for fiction, $100 for poetry, flash prose, graphic narratives, and essays, and $75 for interviews and reading lists. To learn more, refer to this page.
The Ex-Puritan is an independent online magazine run from Toronto. Since expanding its mandate to include poetry, reviews, and experimental work, The Ex-Puritan now seeks to publish the best in all forms of writing. They seek submissions all year round, from anywhere in the world. According to their guidelines, they pay $100 per interview, $200 per essay, $100 per review, $150 per work of fiction, and $50 per poem. To learn more, refer to this page.
Southword: New International Writing is a print literary journal published twice a year by the Munster Literature Centre. Unsolicited submissions of poetry and short fiction are open annually, during the windows for submissions. According to their guidelines, they pay €50 per poem and €400 per short story. Stories should be up to 5000 words. To learn more, refer to this page.
Brink is an in-print literary journal dedicated to publishing hybrid, cross-genre work of emerging and established creatives who often reside outside traditional artistic disciplines. They accept a variety of hybrid work from work that resists categories, Nonfiction to Fiction, from Poetry to Translation. According to their guidelines, they pay $25 per poem, $50 for work less than 1500 words, and $100 for work more than 1501 words. To learn more, refer to this page.
Brigids Gate Press is an indie press that seeks to be a forge where new and underrepresented talents are refined and developed, and their stories shaped and tempered into tales that will delight readers. The anthologies the publish have specifc themes for which they are looking for submissions, and they only accept them during the submission window. According to their submissions page, they pay 10¢ per word and $50 for poems. To learn more, refer to this page.
The First Line's aim is to jump start the imagination--to help writers break through the block that is the blank page. Each issue contains short stories that stem from a common first line. All stories must be written with the first line provided. For fiction, the story should be between 300 and 5,000 words. They are open to all genres. They also accept poetry and non-fiction. According to their guidelines, they pay $25.00 - $50.00 for fiction, $10.00 for poetry, and $25.00 for nonfiction (all U.S. dollars). To learn more, refer to this page.