We start 2010 with 71 freelance writing jobs , blogging jobs, editing jobs, translation jobs and creative gigs today.
No jobs Friday on Christmas day but we’ll be back in normal gear on Monday.
Job Postings Here Are The Tip Of A Great Big Iceberg! A must-read if you’re new to freelance writing, editing, blogging or translating or new to looking for gigs online.
How To Find and Land Freelance Writing Gigs is an ever growing category listing articles about how to get freelance writing jobs and the article, How to land a writing jobis aimed at helping you when you apply to one of the freelance writing jobs listed here.
- Hiring Nonfiction Freelance Writers!- Suite101 currently has openings for nonfiction freelance writers across all subject matters. With over 4,000 writers, 24 million monthly readers and lifelong advertising royalties, Suite101 offers a well-established platform for getting published, read and paid. Apply to write for us today!
- Factoids and Trivia Writer
- Writer to finish Entertainment Business Plan
- P/T Freelance Online Editor Gig — Investment Related
- Business Whitepapers Updated
- Seeking 10 New Editorial Bloggers for Justmeans.com
- Press Release Writer Wanted
- Marketing Communications Writer
- Researcher needed for Alzheimer’s Project
- Promotional articles
- Looking For Good Article Writers P/T
- Write Articles, Blogs, and Reviews
- High School Math Writers
- News Editors & Writers for Conservative Blog
- Need an article writer. 300+ words per article
- Movie Blogger
- Looking for freelance writer
- Sponsored Post Opportunity
- Video Game Walkthrough Writers
- Copywriter/editor needed
- Drama/ Romance/ Comedy Screenplay Wanted
- PR Writer Wanted for Fashion Line being Worn by Fergie & David Guetta
- Looking for a Editor
- Freelance Home Fashion Blogger
- Critique my work
- Writers Wanted for Short-Articles
- Travel Web Content Writer
- Need Press Release Writer
- Promotional articles needed
- Hiring Health & Fitness Writers
- Ambitious Writers Wanted
- Writer Web Articles – Beauty Blog
- Amazing Writer needed
- Writer needed for cell phones
- Ghostwriter
- Ghost writer wanted for web content
- Freelance- Proposal Writer
- Writer on Personal Finance Matters
- Freelance Multimedia Developer
- Proposal writer
- Writer Needed for Freelance Work
- Writers wanted for Sports Forum
- Keyword Content Writer Wanted
- Looking for a writer for new magazine!
- Looking to write a press release
- Need Coverage for my novel
- Twitter Maniac!
- Editor for Leading Online Java Community
- Business Writer
- Technical Writer Contract
- A Motivated Business Plan Writer
- Sales text for lead capture page
- Resume Writer Needed
- Descriptive Creative/Passionate Ghost writer/Editor Needed
- Writer – model railroading
- Website Content Writer Needed
- Reading Today- 800 Barksdale Rd., P.O. Box 8139, Newark, DE 19714-8139. P(302)731-1600, ext. 250. F(302)731-1057. Email: jmicklos-at-reading.org Website: http://www.reading.org/General/Publications/ReadingToday.aspx. John Micklos, Jr., Editor in Chief. 15% freelance. “Reading Today is the bimonthly membership newspaper of the International Reading Association. It covers issues pertaining to reading education in general and the activities of the Association in particular.” Welcomes new writers. Circ. 75K. Bimonthly. Pays on acceptance. Publishes ms 4-6 months after acceptance. Buys all rights, “although author may re-use material with permission of the publisher.” No reprints. Responds in six weeks. Sample for written request. Subscription is part of a membership to IRA; basic membership fee is $39 for one year. Guidelines by mail with SASE, or by email, and online at http://www.reading.org/General/Publications/index/writing_for_reading_today.aspx. CURRENT NEEDS: “All articles have to pertain to reading and/or reading education and must be of interest to an audience of educators.” Pays $0.10-$0.30/word to professional writers for articles of 300-1000 words. Submit query with cover letter, bio and clips by mail with SASE or by email. PHOTOS/ART: Black and white prints, color prints, digital images. Include model release information and caption. Pays $50-$100 for all photos. HINTS: “Our audience is very specialized. Writing must be on target for an audience of reading educators.”
- Pelican Publishing Company, Inc - 1000 Burmaster St., Gretna, LA 70053. P(504-368-1175. F(504)368-1195. Email: editorial-at-pelicanpub.com Website:http://www.pelicanpub.com/auguidelin.htm or by mail with SASE. CURRENT NEEDS: “Regional, popular history, Civil War, World War II, biography, politics, cookbooks, art, architecture, business, self-help, Jewish, Scottish, Irish, African-American, children’s picture books.” Pays advance occasionally and royalties of 10%+. Books average 65K-150K words for nonfiction; 1,100 words maximum for children’s picture books. Submit cover letter, bio, and outline by mail with SASE. HINTS: “Common mistakes are not checking our catalog first and not following our posted guidelines.“
- Sandlapper, The Magazine of South Carolina – 3007 Millwood Avenue, Columbia, SC 29205. P(803)779-8763. F(803)254-4833. Email: aida-at-sandlapper.org Website:http://www.sandlapper.org. Aïda Rogers, Editor. All editorial submissions. “Sandlapper is a quarterly magazine about South Carolina’s people, places, history and culture. We have columns about South Carolina books/authors, restaurants, and cooking. We run articles about towns, interesting people, arts, quirks, fun things to do. Because we’re quarterly, we can’t be really ‘newsy’ but more seasonal. We don’t run articles about controversial topics.” 80% freelance. Circ. 10K. Quarterly. Pays about one month after publication. Buys first-time and electronic rights and the right to publish in Sandlapper databases. Responds in 1-3 weeks. “Sample copy available by writing or emailing us. There will be a shipping charge and cost for a copy.” Subscription $25. “If the subscriber is military overseas, it’s $25 (they have to provide an APO address). Cost for other overseas subscriptions depends on the location.” Guidelines by email, or by mail with SASE. CURRENT NEEDS: “Humor, action, and a strong sense of South Carolina. Our best writers live here and understand this state.” Pays $100 per published page, copy and photo/s combined. Stories run 500 words to 2500 words. If you are new to us, send a query with 2 published clips. Email is fine; snail-mail with SASE is fine.” PHOTOS/ART: “Digital at a minimum of 300 dpi. We will also work with photo prints.” Pays $100 per published page (and $50 for half-page). HINTS: “Because Sandlapper is so geographically specific, it’s really best for writers to either live here or to have lived here before. Writers who vacationed on Hilton Head or in Charleston and Myrtle Beach and want to write loosely about what they did and saw are wasting their time with us (we can spot a tourist, and that doesn’t serve our purposes). A common mistake out-of-state writers make is to target us for generic southern, and to send us generic articles about grits or cornbread or the boll weevil. If a writer is going to tackle these subjects for us, he or she will need to consult South Carolina experts and quote South Carolinians to make it work for Sandlapper. It really helps for the writer to be familiar with us before he or she queries. It’s rather insulting to the editor when a writer suggests a story on something we covered in the last few years. Something new we’ve started is a series titled “My Kind of Place,” in which a South Carolina writer describes his favorite place in the state. So far we’ve covered an old cemetery on Daufuskie Island and a music club in Greenville. We’ve had a huge response from writers who want to participate, and I don’t foresee us running out of topics in the next several years. Read the magazine before you query. Get a sense of the kinds of things we cover.”
- Recreation News – Editorial Office, 204 Greenwood Road, Linthicum, MD 21093. P(410)944-4852. Email: editor-at-recreationnews.com. Website: http://www.recreationnews.com. Marvin Bond, Editor. 90% freelance. A monthly tabloid on recreation, travel and entertainment in the Mid Atlantic states, reaching 250K federal and corporate employees. Welcomes new writers. Monthly. Pays on publication. Publishes manuscript 1-3 months after acceptance. Occasionally accepts reprints. Responds 30 to 90 days. Sample by email, mail or online. Subscription $15. Guidelines online at www.recreationnews.com CURRENT NEEDS: “Do not submit anything until you review our Writer’s Guidelines” on website. Pays flat fee of $100-$300 for 600-1,000 words. PHOTOS/ART: “Prefer digital at 200 dpi. Quality photos are essential.” HINTS: “Strong regional focus. Common mistakes include submitting stories too long, inappropriate content, or too far out of our region. Looking for destination stories with specifics of where to go and what to do; leisure and recreation. No ‘how-tos’, no first person. Let us know your specific area of interest and experience. Don’t say, ‘I can write anything about anywhere.’”
- High School Math Writers
- News and information pro available p/t
- Translator
- Technical Patent Writer
- Cutting Edge Web Designers & Writers for New Biz Pitches
- Environmental Website Writer
- Practice Question Writer
- Press Release Writer Wanted
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Canadian writing job seekers may find what they want at the Canadian Freelance Writing Jobs Blog. Deb Ng publishes jobs at FreelanceWritingGigs. Problogger also posts blogging jobs. Jennifer Mattern at All Freelance Writing is now posting jobs only on Tuesday’s and is working to find gigs that pay well.
Write well and often,
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Thanks, Anne! Hope your new year is off to a great start!
so far, it’s excellent… same back at you.
Hi Anne, my name is Hulbert. I am just a random person on the web that writes a self-help blog. I’ve never done freelancing before and I’ve decided that it’s something that I want to get into. I’ve been researching it for hours, but a lot of what’s out there on the internet about the freelancing world is just hard to understand for me; there’s just so much convoluted stuff out there.
Somehow I stumbled across this nice blog and I was wondering if you can help me out and point me to the right direction. Maybe I can email you or you can email me and I can ask you a couple of questions about freelancing and what it’s like if that’s okay with you.
Hulbert, I do answer questions from readers on this blog – email them to me one per email; just make sure you put Q&A in the subject line or I’ll lose you to spam.
Thanks, Anne for these postings! I eagerly wait for them:) Wish you a blessed new year!