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Access daily weekday job drops, featured jobs from clients hiring directly from our community, and advice that actually gets you hired.

Dec 7, 2025 • ✍️ Make Writing Your Job

✍️ Early Access: Featured Job: Ghostwriter Wanted for Historical Western Romance (Full-Length Novel)

Ghostwrite a historical western romance for a client.

5 hrs ago • ✍️ Make Writing Your Job

✍️ 20+ NEW Remote Writing Jobs | August 21, 2026

A remote creative copy director position paying up to $230,000/year, a top beverage brand paying $55/hour for brand naming, and an arts imprint offering…

12 hrs ago • ✍️ Make Writing Your Job

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📚 From First Draft to Final Polish: Edit Your Book Like a Pro with ProWritingAid [Workshop]

How to self-edit your novel or memoir to keep your readers hooked.

Aug 20 • Amy Suto

✍️ 20+ NEW Remote Writing Jobs | August 20, 2026

A video game writing job paying up to $73/hour, a news org hiring up to $93,750/year for audience editing, and a creative agency seeking copywriters at…

Aug 20 • ✍️ Make Writing Your Job

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Recent posts

✍️ Tomorrow: we’re editing your book together

Your 30-second prep list for tomorrow’s live workshop with ProWritingAid — plus a perk for paid subscribers who show up.

Aug 19 • Amy Suto

✍️ The Forever Freelancer with Author Satta Sarmah Hightower

What it takes to build a 7-figure freelancing career and the importance of community.

Aug 19 • Amy Suto and Satta Sarmah Hightower

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✍️ 25+ NEW Remote Writing Jobs | August 19, 2026

A $2,500/month senior editor role, a $150,000-$185,000/year creative strategy role at a telehealth platform, and a $5,250/month organizing copywriter…

Aug 19 • ✍️ Make Writing Your Job

✍️ 220+ Grants, Contests, & Residencies for Writers | August 19, 2026

A $15,000 fiction prize, a $90,000 nine-month fellowship, and a £18,000 monthly grant with mentorship -- 3 major opportunities for writers to fund their…

Aug 19 • ✍️ Make Writing Your Job

✍️ Beyond the Hero with Screenwriter Michael Weiss

Advice on craft and storytelling from screenwriter, professor, and author Michael Weiss.

Aug 19 • Amy Suto and Michael Weiss

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✍️ 30+ NEW Remote Writing Jobs | August 18, 2026

A $80,000-$100,000/year video scriptwriting role, $50-$80/hour technical writing position, and ghostwriting opportunities for nonfiction books.

Aug 18 • ✍️ Make Writing Your Job

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Interviews

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✍️ How to Serialize Your Memoir on Substack with Author Jessy Easton

Plus a look into somatic-based writing practices that Jessy teaches to fellow writers.

Jul 22 • Amy Suto and Jessy Easton

✍️ How to Launch Your Book This Fall with PR Expert Haley Raymond

What sells books and the new PR strategies that work for book launches.

Jul 20 • Amy Suto and Haley Raymond

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✍️ A Conversation with Independent Press Owner/Editor Henry Weikel (Dancing Star Press)

A look into the curation required to put out thoughtful work -- and a call for submissions.

May 27 • Amy Suto

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✍️ How to Build a Full-Time Freelance Writing Career with Allison Lau

A look into what it's like to pivot careers and build a successful freelance writing career from scratch with Allison Lau.

May 27 • Amy Suto and Allison Lau

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✍️ How to Build a Writing Career From Personal Essays with Julie Clark Robinson (Community Spotlight)

Plus: how to navigate the Make Writing Your Job pitch list and sell your own personal essays.

May 15 • Amy Suto and Julie Clark Robinson

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✍️ Writing Job Board

✍️ Early Access: Featured Job: Ghostwriter Wanted for Historical Western Romance (Full-Length Novel)

Ghostwrite a historical western romance for a client.

5 hrs ago • ✍️ Make Writing Your Job

✍️ 20+ NEW Remote Writing Jobs | August 21, 2026

A remote creative copy director position paying up to $230,000/year, a top beverage brand paying $55/hour for brand naming, and an arts imprint offering…

12 hrs ago • ✍️ Make Writing Your Job

✍️ 20+ NEW Remote Writing Jobs | August 20, 2026

A video game writing job paying up to $73/hour, a news org hiring up to $93,750/year for audience editing, and a creative agency seeking copywriters at…

Aug 20 • ✍️ Make Writing Your Job

✍️ 25+ NEW Remote Writing Jobs | August 19, 2026

A $2,500/month senior editor role, a $150,000-$185,000/year creative strategy role at a telehealth platform, and a $5,250/month organizing copywriter…

Aug 19 • ✍️ Make Writing Your Job

✍️ 30+ NEW Remote Writing Jobs | August 18, 2026

A $80,000-$100,000/year video scriptwriting role, $50-$80/hour technical writing position, and ghostwriting opportunities for nonfiction books.

Aug 18 • ✍️ Make Writing Your Job

Articles for Writers

✍️ "LinkedIn Posts Are Trash"

Spoiler: they're actually some of the most valuable jobs on the board. Here's why a LinkedIn post and a LinkedIn job are two completely different…

May 9 • Kyle Cords

✍️ What's a Talent Pool? (We're Adding Them to the Board)

It’s not advertised. It’s not listed. And that’s exactly why most writers never find it.

Apr 10 • Kyle Cords

✍️ Stop Quoting Hourly Rates. Start Selling Packages.

The Prompt That Turns "What's Your Rate?" Into "Pick Your Package."

Mar 14 • Kyle Cords

✍️ Your Pitch Gets 10 Seconds. Make Them Count.

Stop sending proposals that sound like everyone else's. Start winning in the first two sentences.

Mar 7 • Kyle Cords

✍️ “There Aren’t Enough Non-US Jobs”

For anyone who's been waiting for a listing to say "international welcome" — this is me saying it.

Feb 7 • Kyle Cords

🏡 Grants, Contests, & Residencies

✍️ 220+ Grants, Contests, & Residencies for Writers | August 19, 2026

A $15,000 fiction prize, a $90,000 nine-month fellowship, and a £18,000 monthly grant with mentorship -- 3 major opportunities for writers to fund their…

Aug 19 • ✍️ Make Writing Your Job

✍️ 210+ Grants, Contests, & Residencies for Writers | August 12, 2026

€150,000 in investigative journalism grants, a wilderness residency with a $2,500 stipend and your own private cabin, and a residency with $4,000…

Aug 12 • ✍️ Make Writing Your Job

✍️ 200+ Grants, Contests, & Residencies for Writers | August 5, 2026

$1,000 for your short stories, a $2,400 residential fellowship with 4 weeks of lodging and research access, and micro-grants up to $3,000 for African…

Aug 5 • ✍️ Make Writing Your Job

✍️ 215+ Grants, Contests, & Residencies for Writers | July 29, 2026

€20,000 investigative journalism prize, a residency in a European city that pays creatives €600/month plus reimbursed travel and lodging, and up to…

Jul 29 • ✍️ Make Writing Your Job

✍️ 220+ Grants, Contests, & Residencies for Writers | July 22, 2026

Up to $15,000 for experimental art projects, $1,000 for your flash fiction under 1,000 words, and $2,000 with artist mentorship for book arts…

Jul 22 • ✍️ Make Writing Your Job

📝 The Pitch List

✍️ 35+ Calls for Pitches We're Loving | August 17, 2026

A civic honors program offering $16,000 for a two-year poetry ambassadorship, a prestigious literary magazine paying $800 per submission, and a…

Aug 17 • ✍️ Make Writing Your Job

✍️ 35+ Calls for Pitches We're Loving | August 10, 2026

A fishing publication paying up to $450, a literary magazine offering $200 for translations, and a pop culture outlet seeking cultural essays at $200…

Aug 10 • ✍️ Make Writing Your Job

✍️ 45+ Calls for Pitches We're Loving | August 3, 2026

A climate outlet is offering $1,500 per story, a regional magazine is paying $1,000 per article, and a gaming blog is commissioning content at $0.12 per…

Aug 3 • ✍️ Make Writing Your Job

✍️ 60+ Calls for Pitches We're Loving | July 27, 2026

A literary magazine is offering up to $1,500 for essays, a political publication is paying $1,300 per assignment for investigations, and a finance…

Jul 27 • ✍️ Make Writing Your Job

✍️ 65+ Calls for Pitches We're Loving | July 20, 2026

A queer publisher offering up to $20,000 advances, a major media platform is paying up to $1/word for policy deep dives, and an environmental outlet…

Jul 20 • ✍️ Make Writing Your Job

🎓 ClassStack

✍️ Tomorrow: we’re editing your book together

Your 30-second prep list for tomorrow’s live workshop with ProWritingAid — plus a perk for paid subscribers who show up.

Aug 19 • Amy Suto

✍️ I’m hosting a live editing workshop with ProWritingAid (and you’re invited!)

Join me and the ProWritingAid team live on August 20th to take your book from first draft to final polish — free for MWYJ readers.

Aug 4 • Amy Suto

✍️ Breaking the Starving Artist Myth: What Shakespeare Knew About Business [Free Class]

An online version of the sold-out in-person lecture I gave here in the Bay Area.

Jul 18 • Amy Suto

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✍️ Build Your Writing Portfolio Website in One Click with v0 [ClassStack in Collaboration with Vercel]

Build a beautiful website to showcase your writing with Vercel's v0 tool.

Mar 13 • Amy Suto

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✍️ Build Your Writing Portfolio Website in One Click with v0 [Live ClassStack in Collaboration with Vercel]

Build a beautiful website to showcase your writing with Vercel's v0 tool.

Feb 25 • Amy Suto

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