Amy Suto | ✍️ Author

$50,000. for one essay. up to 10,000 words on whether we're living through a hinge in history. no entry fee, no phd required. somewhere a writer just decided their thinking isn't "serious" enough. it is.

A magazine is paying $1/word for a themed food-writing issue: "Food is War, Food is Peace" — food's collision with culture, science, and history. A buck a word, a great prompt. It closes Friday.

ICYMI — featured pitch call on our writing job board! ✍️ A notable digital magazine with a first-look deal with Hulu is accepting completed short stories and pitches for longform narrative nonfiction that they’d like to position for film and TV adaptation. Rate: $500-$2,000 for short stories or longform narrative nonfiction, with 50/50 split for TV and film adaptation revenue 👇 full details + pitch below:

$114K–$130K + equity to produce a narrative podcast about how the truth gets buried and denied. not branded "thought leadership." actual investigative storytelling. "producer who can write" is a six-figure job now.

a narrative podcast about how the truth gets buried is hiring a producer. you'd work next to people behind some of the most acclaimed audio docs of the last decade. $114k–$130k + equity. remote. open now. the only thing between you and it is applying.

a residency that gave me chills: a month living inside an active-volcano national park. housing, a studio, a $4,000 stipend. your office is lava fields and rainforest. open to writers, not just painters. the dream jobs are real. apply.

a fellowship that stopped my scroll: $30,000 to write your narrative-nonfiction book, backed by a landmark library + a major publisher. not a contest you pay into. one that pays you. a writer just thought "not ready." apply anyway.

a little good news for your submissions list: a few magazines are open right now that pay real money. one pays $400 a published page. one pays $100–150 a flash piece. one pays $60 a story. go send them your best.

2 remote writing roles today ⚡️ → Staff Brand Writer · $167K–$278K/yr → Marketing Writer · $35–$45/hr Plus 25+ more → makewritingyourjob.com

writing fellowship that stopped my scroll today: a fully funded fellowship for BIPOC writers — a 7-month cohort in the bay area. funded time, a room of peers, permission to take your own work seriously. open now.

writing job that genuinely stopped my scroll today: a comms manager role at an ai-native fintech building credit for the millions traditional banks write off. $100k–$130k, fully remote. the best-paid writing keeps turning up where you'd least expect it.

writing pitch call that stopped my scroll today: a speculative-fiction press is paying $1,000 a story — short fiction and comics, under 6,000 words. no agent, no following, no MFA. just a story strange enough to keep someone reading. open now.

a writing job that genuinely stopped my scroll today: a major investigative newsroom is launching a brand-new statewide unit — and hiring a senior editor at $150K–$195K to build and lead it. you'd direct four reporters and a fellow covering policy, tech, the arts, and education.

4 remote writing roles today ⚡️ 1 staff + 3 contract: → Staff Editor · $200–220k/yr → AI Writer · $30–60/hour → eCom Copy · $3.5–4.5k/mo → Copywriter (3-mo) · $30–35k/yr Full roundup 👇