Freelance/Part Time
Remote
Pay $50per article, plus approved expenses, and a 5% share of profits
Our client has several opportunities for new columnists for their publications
Publication volume will increase based on audience traction and advertiser commitment, increasing opportunities for original columnists as well as creating space for additional writers.
Available Opportunities
Four columnist opportunities are available:
–> Skate & Bike: Essays, interviews, and coverage of events, experiences, and lifestyle within the skate and bike community. Subjects may include skateboarding, mountain biking, commuter biking, surfing, snowboarding, bicycle racing, longboarding, roller skating, and more. This vertical aims to cover the outdoors, while bridging the gap between urban and rural.
–> Travel: Coverage of diverse types of travel, from tours, hotels, and cruises, to music festivals, backpacking, unique activities, travel budgeting, holiday travel, family, and more. Topics may include a focus on the travel industry from a business perspective, or experiences from a personal perspective. Inspire and inform, while remaining authentic.
–> Civic Life: In a divisive political environment, Civic Life coverage aims to bring people together, elevating local stories with global perspective. By re-centering the care, connection, and community that make democracies strong, we aim to elevate empathy and create connection. While we expect there will be a political angle in some pieces, coverage of farmers’ markets, local libraries, schools and education, protests, advocacy forums, religious communities, and local sports should celebrate an inclusive society. This vertical is explicitly and ethically progressive, but should remain mostly apolitical in tone.
–> Nightlife: Essays, interviews, and coverage of events, experiences, and lifestyle around nightlife. Music, DJs, bars, cocktails, drugs, costumes, the dating scene, sober curious trends, late night gossip: this vertical is your playground. We encourage you to get creative, with coverage of personal stories, the business community, lifestyle, and more. Stories elevate the local or the personal to a universal and relatable perspective, ensuring what we say about nightlife is relevant and interesting to curious readers everywhere.
Columnist Role
As a columnist, you will shape how you cover your vertical. Articles must be at least 500 words in length. You will write one article per month, with the option for higher frequency depending on audience traction and advertiser interest.
Our client does not require a pitch for each piece. Approval is required for any project requiring additional budget, e.g., tickets, product purchases, travel, drinks. Initial budgets will be modest while advertiser interest in our audience develops.
Content may include interviews, reviews, investigations, commentary, essays, personal experiences, or events coverage. Approval required for articles primarily consisting of lists.
Compensation
This is a contract position. Columnists will be compensated $50 per article, plus approved expenses, and a 5% share of profits.
Per article compensation will increase with publication growth. Profit sharing is immediately available, and expires should the columnist cease writing for the agency. Permanent vesting of columnist profit share is available based on tenure.
How to Apply
Email phoenixwriters254@gmail.com and please include the following:
– Which column you are applying to write
– Why you are passionate about covering the vertical
– Two example topic pitches (one sentence each).
– Link to your portfolio or existing written work you are proud of
Please apply to cover one column only. All applicants will receive a response.
Content is subject to approval, review, and editing by the editorial staff. While the columnist will be largely autonomous, collaboration and communication are crucial to success in this role, and assignments may be given when important news items cross the desk.
The submission deadline is the 25th of each month, and articles will be published on the final day of the month.
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