Freelance Writing — Find Online Markets to Pitch

3 Online Writing Markets That Pay Freelance Writers At Least $150.00 Per Article

These nonfiction markets are looking for freelance writers and pay between $150.00–1,000.00 for accepted stories.

Have you found the write markets to submit your pitches? Sometimes it is difficult to find markets that you have an interest in or that match your skill level or lifestyle. These three markets are very different, but each one is interesting. The first one is for travel articles, the second is about technology and building great websites, and the last focuses on the environment.

Budget Travel

Website: Budget Travel

Guidelines: Budget Travel Guidelines

Send Story Query To: Apply on the guidelines page

Looking For: Nonfiction

Payment: reported as $0.25–1.00 / word, $175.00–1,000.00 for an article between 700–1,000 words.

Accepts Simultaneous Submissions: No

Pays Writers on Assignment: No

More Info:

Budget travel focuses on how everyone can afford to take a vacation and how it can be affordable with proper planning.

Nonfiction: This website focuses on vacations for real people and traveling domestically in America. You will need to fill out an application to write for them, including a pitch. Make sure you apply as a freelance and not click on sponsored posts, as those are posts other companies are paying them to publish!

Elegant Themes

Website: Elegant Themes

Guidelines: Elegant Themes Guidelines

Send Story Query To: see guidelines

Looking For: Nonfiction

Payment: $250.00

Accepts Simultaneous Submissions: No

Pays Writers on Assignment: No

More Info:

Elegant themes are some of the most popular themes created for WordPress sites. Because of their popularity, they have a huge community of followers who buy from them and read all their blog posts and help guides.

Nonfiction: Elegant themes used to write their articles and tutorials in-house, but in 2018 they opened up this opportunity to freelance writers. They understand that other people, sometimes people in tech or even everyday users, come up with the best guides, tricks, tips, hacks, and information.

They are looking for content that helps solve a problem that a user may be having. Article engagement is important to them. People are much more likely to engage with a piece of writing that teaches them something new or allows the reader to become faster or more efficient at something.

They are looking for articles 1,000–1,500 hundred words long. However, if you can solve a problem with fewer words than that, do it.

Earth Island Journal

Website: Earth Island Journal

Guidelines: Earth Island Journal Guidelines

Send Story Pitches or Completed Manuscripts To: See guidelines page

Payment: $0.25 / word; for an in-depth feature, you will make $750.00–1,000.00. For an online report, they pay $150.00

Accepts Simultaneous Submissions: No

Pays Writers on Assignment: No

More Info:

Earth Island Journal represents Earth Island Institute, an organization that supports environmental leaders and activists to protect Earth.

Nonfiction: They cover multiple topics related to environmental issues such as land and wildlife conservation, public policy, politics affecting the environment, technology and scientific innovations which can help the environment, animal rights, climate and energy, and environmental justice.

They prefer writers to pitch their stories instead of sending in a full manuscript. The payment is $150.00 for online articles (Which is the best way to break into this market) and $.25 a word for features, paying up to $1,000.00 for a 4,000-word story.

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