The 5 Best Newsletters to Subscribe to For Freelance Writing Success

As any freelance writer knows, part of creating a successful career is hunting down job opportunities. Why not use that time instead to pitch, draft, and edit? Subscribing to a writing newsletter allows you to receive calls for pitches and job listings directly to your email. I’ve been freelancing for years now, and the following weekly emails have been key to my success.

1. Study Hall — $9.99+/month, 2x/week

Study Hall isn't just a newsletter, but they do send out two different compilations of writing opportunities each week, plus they have an opportunities database where you can set your preferences and get notifications each time a gig in your niche is posted! They also have an awesome Slack channel and other resources for writers, so don't sleep on Study Hall! As a member, I can refer people and give them a free month when they use this link.

2. Write Jobs Plus — $3/month, 2x/week

In my experience, this Patreon offers the most comprehensive list of pitch calls and writing gigs—I've gotten so much work through them! Plus, they lay out all the pitching details, including contact information, guidelines, best practices, rates, and more.

3. The Writer’s Job Newsletter — Free, 1x/week This newsletter from the UK seems to include some of the most unique opportunities, many of which are from England. One section of each weekly email features a wide variety of job openings, the rest are other interesting and well-paid gigs out there. Each newsletter ends with a “featured writer” section — a good opportunity to get your name out there. Plus, the writers behind this newsletter often share documents with helpful resources and have recently come up with a survey in order to compile a report of freelance writing in 2021.

4. Freedom With Writing — Free, around 1x/week The Freedom With Writing newsletter is wide-ranging and formatted differently from the rest of the emails in this list. First of all, these newsletters typically feature listicles of opportunities with no specific deadlines. Although I’ve found that the emails aren’t always regular, they include not only recent calls for pitches, but also lists of magazines that pay for specific genres, or writing contests to submit to. While not all of the opportunities they list are well-paying (or paying at all), at least there they provide a great volume of places to pitch. This is great if you’re just getting started in the industry or work in a niche that is somewhat unusual.

5. Kaitlyn Arford's Freelance Opportunities — Pay what you can, once a week

Kaitlyn is a freelance writer and leader of the online freelance writing community. Her newsletter offers opportunities sorted by job type, including gigs for journalists, copywriters, copyeditors, SEOs and marketing strategists, PR professionals, social media pros, and more. The newsletter is run on a pay-what-you-can model, which means you can sign up for free when you need to and become a paid supporter when you can.

BONUS:

Feel-Good Freelance Writing's Newsletter — Free, 2x/month

Yup, this is my own newsletter! Every other week, I share an anecdote from life as a freelance writer and then include some tips that are usually related to the anecdote. The focus of this newsletter is about managing the ups and downs of the freelancing business and finding mental peace throughout it all. I rarely share writing opportunities, but I do offer tips and commiseration!