What are Writing Markets?

Freelance writing markets are publications, businesses or organizations that will give freelance writing assignments to writers.

 

A freelance writer is a person who pursues a career as a writer without a long-term commitment to any one employer.

 

There are many different types of writing markets. Historically many freelance writers would work with just one type of writing market, for example, magazines. Now, especially due to the Internet and online communication, it is common for freelance writers to diversify and work for all sorts of writing markets.

 

 

Writing markets can include:

• magazines
• newspapers
• web sites
• publishing houses
• ezines and newsletters
• businesses
• charities
• greeting card companies
• and more.

 

As you can see, freelance writers can be hired to write many different types of material. However, many freelance writers get started by writing articles for freelance writing markets such as magazines, newspapers, and web sites. These are probably still the most popular types of writer markets.

There are thousands of writing markets that you can work with as a freelance writer. At Worldwide Freelance Writer we list over 2,000 writing markets in our writing market database.

 

The Freelancer's Guide to Finding Writers' Markets lists many more places to find good writing markets.

 

 

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