Category: Paid Opportunities

“At Bitch, we’re always looking for pitches that speak to feminist responses to pop culture.” URL: www.bitchmedia.org Payment: Yes. Rates unpublished for online publication and $200-$650 for print. Submission Information: “In addition to our quarterly print magazine, we publish online content 5 days a week. We are looking for discussion-provoking critical essays that are well researched with evidence to back up claims, timely statistics, and connections between one’s personal experience and larger social forces.” Pitch Information: Read through the guidelines for print, online, or illustrator pitches. Use the appropriate button to submit your pitch. If you’ve never been published by Bitch...

“Quartz was founded to cover the new global economy, so we’re interested in stories that have some aspect of economics, technology, policy, science, health, management or business at their cores.” URL: www.qz.com Payment: Yes. Rates unpublished. According to Quartz, their payments are modest. Submission Information: Quartz wants your personal essays, but they want it built on facts and data, too. Tell your story but build it on a foundation of information. Pitch Information: Send your pitch first – a couple of paragraphs at most. If you’ve already written something, don’t send it as an attachment but paste it into the...

“Broadly is a website and digital video channel devoted to representing the multiplicity of women’s experiences. Through original reporting and documentary film, we provide a sustained focus on the issues that matter most to women.” URL: https://broadly.vice.com/en_us Payment: Yes. Rates unpublished. Pitch Information: Email your pitch to editor@vice.com. They receive a high volume of pitches and ask for 90 days to respond. If you haven’t received a response by then, consider it rejected. Vice is the parent company of Broadly and they do not recommend emailing an editor directly when you submit your first pitch. Doing so could get it marked...

“Incisive. Irreverent. Curious. Provocative. That’s DAME. We take an unabashed look at the issues our readers are really talking about. And like our readers, DAME is smart, quick-witted, opinionated and unapologetic. Recalling the golden age of women’s magazines, DAME boasts an enviable roster of some of the best voices of our time. Authoritative, seasoned writers breaking stories; crafting eloquent, moving essays; offering expert advice; and weighing in on the conversations of the moment with their unique takes on relationships, gender politics, sex, race, entertainment, the arts, business, politics, Internet culture, health and everything in-between.” URL: www.damemagazine.com Payment: Yes. Rates unpublished....

“We’re the online endgame in intersectional feminism, with an ebullient twist. We give a lot of love — and sometimes get a little angry, too. You’ll see us talking about gender equality, body acceptance, coercing your toddler into eating broccoli, the horror that is Republican politics — oh, and orgasms.” URL: ravishly.com Payment: Yes. Rates unpublished. Submission Information: Ravishly calls itself the Internet’s cool aunt, and I have to agree. Several years ago I wrote for them under my vanilla name, and they were easy to work with, generous with praise (when you do well), and willing to tackle big,...