Resources for Magazine/Freelance Writers
Need to do some market research? Find new venues for your work? Here are a couple of places you can start:
A lot of magazine writers subscribe (for a fee) to
Freelance Success, partly for its market guides,
guides to various markets (individual publications, what they want, who to pitch to, etc.), based on interviews.
Similar market guides are available from the American Society of Journalists & Authors (ASJA), which is more expensive to join (and not always easy to get into).
Writers Weekly has a great list of both jobs and gigs for freelance writers.
The Great Britain-based Burry Man Writing Center not only has gigs but hosts a terrific networking site for writers called Inked-In.
One of the best resources for finding magazine and journal submission requirements that are up to date is subscription-based, but well worth the cost: it’s Meg Weaver’s Wooden Horse Database.
These reources are a great place to start … and I’ll share more as I come across them. Remember that diligence and Google are your friends! And then you’ll be … beyond the elements of style!
Posted in Getting Published, Publishers, Publishing, Research, Words on November 12th, 2008