✍️ 55+ High-Paying Calls for Pitches | May 18, 2026
A newsroom is paying $100 for poems about Texas, a literary magazine is calling for personal essays about travel for $500, and a sci-fi publication is paying $1,000 for fiction.
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A nonprofit newsroom is accepting previously unpublished poems about or rooted in Texas from any poet. Pay is $100/poem.
A speculative publication is paying $1,000 for short stories (under 6,000 words) and comics (12-16 panels) for Issue 6 exploring water’s role in soil, growth, land, and ecosystems through anti-apocalyptic visions of the future.
A literary magazine is accepting full drafts of personal essays exploring place, travel, and strangers. Pay is $500/essay.
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