Calissa Leigh Writes

WRITING   MARKETS

These are my top resources for writing markets. Markets are not really ‘jobs’ where you are hired to write. They are places where you send queries or send in manuscripts to appeal to editors. 

The best free market listings:

Writers  Weekly - This great website has markets in the weekly newsletter, on the website and in the message board. Don’t forget to check out all the other great content and articles. 

Agent  Query - Those looking for an agent will be delighted to learn of this place that lists content for free. 

The Market List - For fantasy, horror and sci-fi writers. 

Writers Write List - Long list of paying markets.

Publisher Database - This place is new to me, but looks really cool. It even has a submission tracker. You do have to register, but it is free.

Best market listings that you pay for:

(Fees vary, but they are legitimate and reliable resources. Remember, no matter what
  resource you look at, the latest information will always be posted on the magazine or book publisher website first. Don’t forget to check those sources too before submitting anything.)

Writer’s Market - Often described as the ‘Writer’s Bible’, highly recommended.

Writing-World - If you know where you want to submit your work, pay for only markets that you will actually use, like fantasy or horror. 

Absolute Write - Sends market leads via email and also freelance work gigs via email.

Have markets? Contact me and I’ll add your link. 

FREELANCE WRITING JOBS

Get Hired - Freelance Writing Jobs

This is a list of places where people are hired to write articles or web content — a list of freelance writing jobs. Feel free to ask me questions, provide your own link or ask me to remove links if you no longer need writers.

Method Shop - Writers wanted to write content.

Adverbage - Hires freelance writers and editors.

Allworth Press - Hires copy editors and indexers. 

Manuscript Writing Services - UK based. They have been asking for more
essay writing jobs lately for college students. 

Book Editing - This company needs book editors and proofreaders. 

FabJob - Hires writers to write ebooks and articles.

CGPR - Public relations looking for freelance writer’s resumes.

Resume Writers - This company needs resume writers.

Editor’s Ink - Needs freelance writers and editors.

Herald Creative - Hiring copy writers. 

Writer’s Relief - Currently seeking editors. 

Love to Know - Often looks for freelance content writers.

Lasselle & Ramsay - Needs freelance writers.

Legal Proofreaders - This company needs legal proofreaders, among other jobs.

Consumer Research - Research and review products. 

Medical Proofreading - This company needs medical editors and proofreaders.

Style Career - Seeking intern writers to write ebooks. 

Proofreading/Editing - This site appears to be a staffing agency now.

Proofread Now - As you can tell, they need proofreaders. 

WordFirm - Editors and proofreaders needed. 

Translation Editing - If you edit translations, find work here. 

Keyword Cafe - Often hires content writers.

Life Tips -Write tips for the Life Tips website or for their clients. 

Associated Content - This well known place does pay, even if it is poor
pay. I keep getting emails to include it so here it is. 

Constant Content - For this one, you set your own rate for your
articles.

Demand Studios - Freelance writing and film making jobs.

Resume Writers - Bakos Group needs resume writers.

Resume Aid - Another company needing resume writers.

The Daily Writing Job Checklist

This is my list. The set of links I use almost every day to
find those jobs that are waiting to be filled.

Each link opens up a new window. All one has to do is search the page, collect the information and then close the window to click on the next link. 

I’ve linked directly to where the jobs are so you don’t have to click on a ton of links just to get to the jobs. 

This list saves me tons of time. 

There’s a little something here for everyone, freelancers and regular working stiffs alike. (as my mom likes to remind me, the real jobs )

START HERE

These are websites that are free, and where employers go to actually post their job leads.

MediaBistro - You do have to sign in to see the jobs, but it’s free.

Places For Writers - Other sections on this site besides the job link.

Author Link - Job search which is powered by Monster.

Magazine Writer Jobs - List of jobs for the magazine market.

Freelance Writers- This is to the high paying forum. The other forum is below.

Journalism Jobs - Best place to find jobs in journalism. Often has freelance postings.

Writing Jobs at Hot Jobs - Narrowed listing to jobs that require fine writing skills.

Monster’s Writing Jobs - Good to check for quality leads.

Dice.com - Mostly technical jobs.

Editor and Publisher Jobs - Good resource!

The Craig’s

This is a list of the writing listings at Craig’s List. Two for each city. Recommended
checking from the top five listed here. (Dig around more through Craig’s List for additional
cities.)

Link 2 might have low or nonpaying opportunities. Just keep your eyes open.

New York - 1 . 2

Chicago - 1 . 2

Boston - 1 . 2

MySpace

Like Craig’s List, MySpace has a classified ads site that is separated into individual categories by city.

These are the writing gigs for major cities:

Los Angeles

New York

Chicago

Boston

Do not forget to check other cities, including your local major city.

PR Jobs - This place didn’t have any jobs when I visited, but
keep an eye on it.

Concept Art - Occasionally has comic and graphic novel writer jobs.

Digital Webbing - For writers of comics and graphic novels.

Cartoon Conspiracy - Short list of jobs, mostly for artists but some
for writers.

Aquent - Another new one with jobs worldwide.

Creative Hotlist - This has a good handful of leads.

Absolute Write Paying Markets - This message board is often updated.

Absolute Write Sharing Leads - Shared leads to paying markets.

Writer’s Weekly - Message board has loads of quality leads.

Freelance BBS - More listed freelance writing jobs.

Writer Jobs - Writer’s Write website hosts job opportunities.

IRE Jobs - Lots of unique writing job leads for investigative reporters.

Freelance Writing - The low pay gigs sometimes has decent listings. Sometimes.

Writer Find - Good list of leads here, not updated all that often but has good leads.

Check out more great job boards at the Writer’s Gazette!

Go down the list at Freelance Writing Jobs too! Some bidding sites and newsletters there.

The Quick Lists

I call them relisters, because they borrow links from other websites and repost them on
blogs or web pages. If you don’t have time to go through the list above, use these resources. You should check them out anyway, because they will often catch leads you might have missed in your searching.

Freelance Writing Gigs - A collection of updated feelance writing links from all over the web.

Morning Coffee - This one is updated once a week, but with good leads.

PoeWar Jobs - More leads, collected from the web.

Writer’s Weekly Markets - Another list of leads, updated usually
every week. 

Sun Oasis - Post jobs daily.

Still not enough leads? Feel like doing some bidding? Try the Monster List of Freelance Job Sites provided by Freelance Switch.

And if you are wondering… the answer is yes. I use this list all the time. It takes me about twenty to forty minutes a day to go through all of the websites and look for updated leads. I keep trying to make it easier and better.

Have ideas on how to make this better? Feel free to leave a comment or email me to let me know of your favorite resources for looking for writing jobs.

I’m working through the website redesign and I’ve decided to remove a number of pages from the website and put them on here. Some of these pages require editing and some are just going to be easier to sort of I just put them on the blog.

So you’ll probably see a few re-added and updated pages coming though the blog in the next couple of days. You’re not going crazy, it’s just me doing some updating and making things easier on this end.

I can’t say when the new site will be complete, hopefully in a couple of days and that’s just getting the basics online. I’ll be continuing to add additional content, plus I have plans for helpful resources, worksheets and ebooks to add in the coming months.

Oh boy.

I love Microsoft Office 2007. Vista might have bombed but someone put their thinking cap on for Office. If you haven’t tried it, Microsoft has a sweet deal and will let you try it for six months for free.

However, if you don’t want to fork over the $300 for the software after six months, there are alternatives. Here’s some FREE word processors, and other programs that can help you with your business.

Open Office - Probably one of the most popular word processors, spreadsheets and presentation makers available. It’s a completely free download.

AbiWord -  Another download with just the word processor. It is compatible with OpenOffice files, Text pad or Word files.

Google Docs - Never have to worry about saving your documents and backing them up again. Let Google take care of that, and have all your files in once place, not duplicate files. No downloads, save some space on your hard drive.

StarOffice - Yet another freebie. This one is a download. It looks pretty and does work with Microsoft Office files.

Can’t get any sweeter than free word processing or spreadsheets.

Amy Tan gives a talk on creativity.

If you haven’t been yet, TED.com has all sorts of interesting videos on all sorts of interesting topics. Go. Watch. Now.

I’m doing more than CSS coding for the front site redesign, I decide I wanted to give a go at the PHP design part. I’ve been slowly learning how to put it all together like I want it to go. It’s getting easier.

 In the mean time, I’ve been busy. I’ve got only a handful of writing clients. Yeah I suckered myself back into nonfiction writing. Regular jobs just don’t have the same appeal as working when I want and making what I want.

 Just a quickie.

Other writers might know of PRNewswire, (http://www.prnewswire.com/) which is a website for journalists and experts to get together. I used to use it pretty heavily. Although, it does have it’s flaws…

Now there’s something new. Someone forwarded this link to me, Help A Reporter Out.

I haven’t tried it out yet, but I’m plotting to. So if you are a source or if you need sources, try out this handy, dandy thing.

I’ve been very lazy with redesigning the front page. Last time I mucked up the coding so it was all lopsided. Funny enough I did it all in regular HTML, despite the fact that I know I ’should’ have done it with CSS - Cascading Style Sheets.

Funny how you do things you know you’re not supposed to do just because. In this case changing the website to use CSS would actually have made my job lots easier to update pages, etc. And I avoided it. Don’t know why.

 Actually I probably should put the pages into PHP type pages, but I don’t know if I’ll do that just now.

In any case, it is the current project. Funny I had a form before on my page and when I tested it the first time I put it up, it worked. When I tested it later, it didn’t work. >.> And since I’ve just replaced it with a regular email address, I’ve been getting emails from people wanting work.

 So! A new, hopefully working form will get put up and will actually work this time. One of these days I’ll actually learn how to make a form.

 So you’ll probably see changes to the front page. I’ll also be adding a photography page, rearranging where things are so just hang in folks.

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