These Pubs Want Your Pitches ASAP — and a New Travel Mag Is Here!

Hello travel writers,

We know it’s Thanksgiving crunch week and we’re all scrambling to get five days of work done in three, so we appreciate you taking a little time out to read our newsletter (where you will inevitably find opportunities for even more work). Yay!

In all seriousness, we’re endlessly thankful for this community and the travel writing opportunities we’re able to share here and on our job board. (And by the way, we hear all of you who are deleting your Twitter/X accounts, and we’ll avoid linking to jobs there whenever possible moving forward — but please note some editors are still using the platform for their calls for pitches, and we don’t want anyone to miss out.)

Speaking of not missing out, keep an eye on your inboxes this week, because our biggest class sale of the year is coming in the next few days. It’s been a while, and we had to get in on the Black Friday fun.

Calls for Pitches

Travel + Leisure: Is looking for people who live in tiny homes (like this) and can speak to their experience. If this is you, or you have access to sources to interview on this topic, please reach out. Email [email protected] 

Andscape: The Digital Lead of Andscape (an ESPN brand) is looking for stories at the intersection of sports and entertainment. See more.

Rewire News Group: Rewire News Group's Campus Dispatch series is looking for pitches. If you're a high schooler, college student, grad student, or recent grad, they want to hear from you. Email [email protected]

Contingent Magazine: Contingent Magazine is now accepting pitches for its December issue exploring the relationship between Star Trek and history. See more.

Business Insider: Is looking for more people to write about their life not being what they thought retirement would look like. See more.

Swoon: Anybody know/love the Outlander books? Swoon is looking for someone to do a ranking of them. See more.

FERN News/High County: FERNnews and High Country News are collaborating on a special project on the subject of food and power in the West and are currently conducting an open call for pitches for short-form essays and reportage on this theme from a state or a local perspective. Email [email protected] and see examples here.

Men's Journal: Is looking for entertainment writers. Any freelance writers looking for hourly contract work (30-40 hrs/week), DM the editor your resume with a few of your best, most relevant clips. See more.

Eater: Is actively looking for new ideas and new voices. See more.

Full-Time Job Openings

Associated Press: Is looking for an early career journalist who will work closely with AP colleagues in the U.S. and across the world to consistently break news and produce distinct, deeply reported enterprise. You will contribute to AP’s spot coverage of climate, with a focus on coverage of the world’s oceans and fisheries – including their overlap with climate change and biodiversity loss, and how innovative solutions are combatting both of those things. See more.

The Verge: Is seeking a Deputy Editor, Reviews and Commerce to manage a large team of editors, reviewers, and writers and oversee a crucial piece of our editorial and business strategy. See more.

The Cut: Is hiring a News Editor to oversee the site’s daily news coverage. You’ll work with the Cut’s executive and deputy editors to set the direction and tone of the blog, paying close attention to celebrity and tabloid news, politics, crime, and social media trends. See more.

The Week: Is looking for a writer with news experience for its national news and opinion magazine. See more.

Bloomberg Intelligence: Is looking for an experienced editor who thrives under real-time deadline pressure in a complex, innovative environment. This role entails editing financial research to be forward-looking, creative, insightful, critical to the specialist and accessible to the generalist. See more.

L'officiel: L’OFFICIEL USA is looking for a Senior Features Editor to join its US edition. Based in New York, candidates for this role should bring a wealth of contacts across culture and fashion, in addition to having a stable of diverse writers to tap for cover, feature, and fashion feature stories. See more.

One Place We Love

Stacey just got back from Thailand, where she ate so much spicy food she is still sweating a full 24 hours later. (And she says she’d do it all again today if she could.) The photo above is from the Sunday Night Market in Phuket.

One Story We Love (JK It’s a Whole Magazine!)

We are over the moon to see a new travel magazine hit the market — the first-ever Hotels Above Par print magazine is coming and it is beautiful! You’ll be able to get your hands on a copy soon, but in the meantime, follow HAP and its incredible CEO Brandon Berkson for more. And while you’re at it, don’t forget to take Brandon’s Be A Travel Writer Class! Congratulations to the HAP team and all of its contributors (including Stacey, Rachel Chang, and more familiar faces from the BATW community)!

See you in class,

Stacey & Nina