✍️ TWJN 170 | 21 opps!! Narratively, Strategist, WSJ, High Life 📝 💌 📬

Happy Monday to all you writers & creatives 👋

How’s everyone doing?

Loads of you voted for Monday newsletters from that poll I sent out, so we’re doing a test run this week!

If you missed the last newsletter, check it out here.

So, what do we have this week?

1️⃣ 10 calls to pitch, with four opps $300+ 💰

2️⃣ 11 writing & marketing jobs

Let’s get to it! ⬇️ ⬇️

Exclusive Freelancer Discount: A Master Class on "How to Write About Social Issues in Unprecedented Times"

How do we write a story that does justice to a crucial social issue, but is also a compelling read? How much research and contextual information is enough? How much is too much? Instructor Kavita Das has made answering these complicated questions her speciality. Author of the book Craft and Conscience: How to Write About Social Issues, Kavita is an accomplished journalist whose work has appeared in The Atlantic, The Washington Post, CNN and many other outlets. In this intensive three-hour workshop, she’ll focus on questions of context and narrative when writing about social issues, particularly in the current fraught socio-political climate.

Because we know that most freelancers can’t afford the kinds of professional development opportunities available to newsroom employees, we’ve reserved 5 seats in this course for freelancers at a deeply discounted rate (50% off) from the listed price. Just use the code TWJN when signing up.

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1️⃣ Calls to Pitch

($1,000) Narratively | Narratively is doing a special collaboration with Creative Nonfiction magazine—The Ever-Present Liquid: Stories on Water—that explores the shape-shifting magic, nourishment, and destructiveness of H2O in all its forms. Whatever your story — floods, snorkeling, championship ice-sculpting, dehydration, desalination — they want to hear about it. These can be first-person or reported pieces, and they should have the same epic, immersive, cinematic storytelling, and compelling narrative arcs they always look for. Submission guide here. Submission deadline is May 28. Submit here

($500) The New Inquiry | The New Inquiry is seeking dispatches (1k-1.5k word blend of reporting and analysis) from people active in the current anti-genocide protest movements. Anonymity can be preserved, and pitches by groups or collectives are welcome. Send pitches to [email protected]

($350 - $500) Rewire News Group | Natasha is once again calling for pitches for Rewire News Group's Campus Dispatch series, where a college student/recent grad writes an op-ed or reported story about how repro rights, LGBTQ+ issues, voting rights, and more affect themselves, their campuses, and/or their peers. She’s accepting pitches for op-eds ($350) or reported stories ($500). Send pitches to [email protected]

($220+) Business Insider | Stephanie is looking for personal essays about the financial cost of being single for Business Insider. Did you move in with roommates to avoid paying rent on your own? Do you order out because it's cheaper than cooking for one? Rates start at $220 for a 600-word piece. Deadline to reach out is May 31. Submit pitches here

($200 - $500) Nonprofit Quarterly | Nonprofit Quarterly Magazine is looking for climate justice writing by movement leaders and practitioners in the field of all ages—including, and especially, youth (ages 18-35)—for a special edition centered on the young people bringing new leadership, energy, and hope to the climate justice movement. Pitch guide here. Submission deadline is June 30. Send pitches to [email protected] with “Climate 2024 Submission” as the subject line

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