Freelance Writing Jobs — These 3 Writing Markets are Looking For Content and Pay up to $1,000.00

Find new writing markets for your articles.

Are you looking for freelance writing jobs? Have you considered pitching magazines and websites your article ideas? The following two markets are looking for writers for features, columns, and more. You can make up to $1,000.00 per article, as well as get your work published with your byline attached.

The Bitter Southerner

Website: The Bitter Southerner

Guidelines: The Bitter Southerner Guidelines

Send Story Query To: Online Form

Looking For: Nonfiction

Payment: $250.00–500.00

Accepts Simultaneous Submissions: No

Pays Writers on Assignment: No

More Info:

The Bitter Southerner publishes in-depth features and essays that reflect the author’s perspective on the south (southern US states). This writing is based on first-hand experience, including currently living in the south, growing up there, or even visiting. However, they are also open to perspectives of how people who are not from there see the south.

The website has many different articles you can read to see if you think you can do this type of writing. The guidelines page also has some examples to look at.

Nonfiction: They are looking for in-depth features which run 2,500–5,000 words. They will also consider personal essays, profile pieces, reviews, and opinion pieces. Those stories range from 1,000 to 3,000 words.

Sky & Telescope

Website: Sky & Telescope

Guidelines: Sky & Telescope Guidelines

Send Story Query To: [email protected]

Looking For: Nonfiction

Payment: Negotiated — but usually at least $.25/word (300–600+ for features)

Accepts Simultaneous Submissions: Yes

Pays Writers on Assignment: No

More Info:

Sky & Telescope has a circulation of 65,000. They offer writers a byline and a 20% kill fee.

Nonfiction: They are looking for how-to, historical, personal experience, and photo features. The word count they are looking for is 1,000–2400 words. These types of feature articles pay at least $0.25 a word.

Columns: They are also looking for content for the column Focal Point, which is an opinion column that runs 550 words. This column pays $0.25 a word.

Chesapeake Bay Magazine

Website: Chesapeake Bay Magazine

Guidelines: none online

Send Story Pitches or Completed Manuscripts To: [email protected]

Looking For: Nonfiction

Payment: $100.00 –1.000.00

Accepts Simultaneous Submissions: Yes

Pays Writers on Assignment: Yes

More Info:

The Chesapeake Bay Magazine has a circulation of 25,000. They offer writers a byline but no kill fee. Readers of this magazine are boaters — paddlers, sailors, anglers, power boaters, conservatism, and foodies. Keep that in mind when pitching your idea.

Nonfiction: They are looking for book excerpts, historical, essays, how-to, interview, new product, humor, nostalgia, profile, technical, travel, and photo feature. Word count 300–3,000 words, payment is $100.00–1,000.00.

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