Updates & Calls

Tuesday, January 30th 2024

Bustle is Seeking Pieces on Living with Recurring MS

Bustle is a lifestyle, fashion, and entertainment website for young women. Their deputy lifestyle editor is looking for personal essays and reported features on living with recurring MS. Rates start at $500. Send your pitches (ideally this week) to hannah.orenstein@bustle.com. To read their deputy lifestyle editor’s post, click here. To visit their website, click here.

Wednesday, July 26th 2023

Bustle is Open for Fashion Pitches

Bustle is a lifestyle, fashion, and entertainment website for young women. Their senior fashion editor is open for fashion pitches. They’re seeking “first-person essays, funny takes on TV/movie style, buzzy styling pieces, and meatier features.” They generally pay between $300 and $800 per story. Send your pitches to kelsey.stiegman@bustle.com. To read their senior fashion editor’s tweet, click here. To read their general pitching guidelines, click here.

Tuesday, July 25th 2023

Bustle is Open for Lifestyle & Wellness Pitches

Bustle is a lifestyle, fashion, and entertainment website for young women. Their deputy lifestyle editor is open to pitches for their lifestyle & wellness verticals. They’re looking for “buzzy reported features on cultural/viral trends, subcultures, relationships, mental health, spirituality, food, and more.” As per a previous (now-deleted) tweet by this editor, their rates begin at $300. If interested, email your pitches to hannah.orenstein@bustle.com. To learn more, refer to their editor’s tweet and their general pitching guidelines

Sunday, January 29th 2023

Bustle's Deputy Lifestyle Editor is Looking for Pitches

Bustle is a lifestyle, fashion, and entertainment website for young women. Their deputy lifestyle editor is seeking pitches for:

“- Reported features or first-person narratives about eating disorders, endometriosis, bipolar disorder

- Joyful pieces about trans life

- Stories about observing Ramadan”

Rates start at $300. Send your pitches to hannah.orenstein@bustle.com. Read their deputy lifestyle editor’s Twitter thread here and their general pitching guidelines here

Tuesday, May 10th 2022

Bustle is Seeking a Writer to Review a Chest Binder

Bustle is a lifestyle, fashion, and entertainment website for young women. Their senior fashion editor is “looking for a writer to review a chest binder.” Rate is $300. If interested, DM their editor as soon as possible on Twitter. Read their editor’s Tweet here and their pitch guide here.

Sunday, February 20th 2022

Bustle UK is Seeking UK-based Writers

Bustle UK is a lifestyle, fashion, and entertainment website for young women. Their senior editor has tweeted, “UK-based writers (news, entertainment, lifestyle, social issues, beauty). I’m adding to my freelancer pool for future digital commissions at Bustle UK.” According to one payment report, they paid £120 for a 900-word feature. To read their senior editor’s Tweet, click here. To visit their website, click here.

Saturday, October 23rd 2021

Bustle is Seeking Pitches Around Divorce

Bustle is a lifestyle, fashion, and entertainment website for young women. Their deputy editor is “looking for pitches from millennial women and nonbinary folks around divorce — especially around navigating divorce just months after you got married, or handling your parents' divorce as an adult.” Rate starts at $300. Pitches should be sent to stephanie.talmadge@bustle.com. For details, refer to their editor’s Tweet and their pitch guide.

Tuesday, September 21st 2021

Seeking LatinX Journalists to Write About Breast Health

The health and wellness editor of Bustle is currently seeking a Latinx journalist to write about about breast health. Bustle is a women's website covering a variety of topics. Payment starts at $350. To learn more, read this Tweet, and their submission guidelines.

Sunday, August 15th 2021

Bustle is Seeking Pitches on Dating Trends, Relationship Service Stories, etc.

Bustle is a lifestyle, fashion, and entertainment website for young women. Their deputy editor has tweeted, “Please pitch me your brilliant ideas on dating trends, relationship service stories, hot takes on TV romances, Q&As and profiles of sex-y people.” Rates start at $300. Writers should send their pitches to stephanie.talmadge@bustle.com. For details, refer to their editor’s Twitter thread and their pitch guide.

Sunday, July 4th 2021

Bustle is Looking for Pitches for Health & Wellness and Tech Sections

Bustle is a lifestyle, fashion, and entertainment website for young women. Their editor has tweeted, “Looking for pitches for Bustle’s Health & Wellness and Tech sections! Is there a weird wellness TikTok trend you’ve been wanting to try? A post-pandemic phenomenon living rent-free in your head? An influencer you’re dying to interview?” According to payment reports, they pay up to $0.25 per word. If interested, send your pitches to melanie.mignucci@bustle.com. For more information, read their editor’s Twitter thread and their pitch guide.