11/15 Freelance Writing Jobs Newsletter

✏️39 freelance writing gigs from Forbes Advisor, Scary Mommy, Moneywise, Laptop Mag, and more!

November 15, 2024

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It’s that time again and there were lots of jobs this week.

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Now for this week’s 39 opportunities…

Freelance Content Writing Gigs

  1. Men’s Journal in the US is looking for freelance entertainment writers with previous entertainment writing experience

  2. Forbes Advisor in the US is looking for freelance legal content writers with a J.D. who’ve practiced law

  3. Verdian Healthcare in the US is looking for a freelance technical product writer to create instructions and support materials for medical products

  4. Dynamic Tech Media in the US is looking for freelance content writers 

  5. A clinical content specialist in the US is looking for freelance nurse writers

  6. JoinTheMVEMNT in the US is looking for freelance writers

  7. SumUp in Germany is looking for freelance fintech writers who are native German, French, Italian, or Spanish speakers with relevant experience in transcreation and localization

  8. Frontify in Switzerland is looking for freelance B2B SaaS writers

  9. NIGHTSTAND in the UK is looking for freelance beauty journalists to report on global beauty culture

  10. K2L Marketing in the UK is looking for freelance beauty and health content writers

  11. New Writing North in the UK is looking for freelance writers and consultants to help with their writer development programs — £250 to £500 per day 

  12. Arena Holdings in South Africa is looking for freelance sub-editors and writers

  13. Hive Marketing in Malaysia is looking for freelance content writers to cover a range of casual topics

  14. Shout Agency in Australia is looking for freelance tech writers from the US or Australia to write content for a brand that’s transforming digital experience infrastructure

  15. Roofrite Group in Australia is looking for a freelance blog writer in the trades/roof construction industry (preferably Australia-based)

  16. Robert Half in Canada in Canada is looking for a freelance grant writer with prior experience applying for the CFI-IF grant

Freelance Copywriting Gigs

Freelance Editing Gigs

  1. Moneywise in Canada is looking for freelance associate personal finance content editors

  2. A legal content expert in the US is looking for a freelance editor, preferably with legal content editing experience

Accepting Pitches from Freelance Writers

  1.  MIT Technology Review in the US is looking for stories about tech and where tech and humans collide — $1 to $2 per word

  2. Scary Mommy in the US is looking for stories on parenting, sex and relationships, TV and movies, pets, home, food, health/wellness, and personal stories — Rates start at $200

  3. Business Insider in the US is looking for stories from freelance writers who have moved from Canada to the US and prefer life in the US

  4. Business Insider in the US is also looking for stories from freelance writers who have moved from the US to another country 

  5. Business Insider in the US is looking for 600-word stories on cruise tips, tricks, and mistakes — Starts at $230

  6. Business Insider in the US is looking for pitches on smaller ways people are cheating on their partners that undermine the relationship

  7. Laptop Mag in the US is looking for unabashed laptop computing nerds with journalistic questions to ask and a point of view to offer — $0.50 to $0.75 per word 

  8. Food and Wine in the US is looking for stories on traveling to US destinations —$1+ per word

  9. TODAY in the US is looking for non-holiday essays on an ongoing basis

  10. Ori Magazine in the US is looking for stories on travel, especially off-beat essays that speak to culture, and stories from Australia and New Zealand — $0.50 to $1 per word

  11. The Walrus in Canada is looking for original reporting, essays, fiction, poetry, and visual essays in the fields of politics, the arts, science and the environment, health, business, sports, technology, and international affairs — starts at $500

  12. The Guardian in the UK is looking for 600-word pieces on fitness, beauty, food and drink (vegan), finance (savings), and education/careers (AI)

  13. HuffPost Personal in the US is looking for personal essays related to the holidays, especially from people with diverse backgrounds/experiences — $150 to $200

  14. FERNnews and High Country News in the US are looking for stories of 500- 1,500 words on the subject of food and power in the West

  15. Eater SF in the US is looking for new stories on food in cities and neighborhoods in the Bay Area, chef or restaurant profiles, and more

Also: The 2024 Income of Freelance Writer’s Survey by All Things Freelance Writing is underway. Please fill out the survey! I’m aiming for 500 responses and will report the findings in this email first.

Q & A

Q: How do you build a stable base of recurring income as a freelance writer?  

A: What’s really helped me is:

1. Focusing on a primary service offering that clients need every month (e.g. blogs, social media posts, emails)

2. Targeting clients with well-established strategies/systems that need more than I can provide each month

I used to write a lot of internal branding guides, landing pages, and core website pages. The problem was, my clients were one-and-done for the most part. They didn’t need those things on an ongoing basis so I constantly had to replace them.

Once I focused primarily on a service clients need on a recurring basis, things got a whole lot easier.

That said, a hybrid model can work well if you help clients with one-off projects but also sell them on recurring offerings. Or, if you really love something that’s a one-off, that can work but you need a solid marketing system to keep the leads coming.

That’s a wrap!

Good luck applying and I’ll see ya next Friday,

Jessica at ATFW

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