9 Best Freelance Writing Job Boards to Find Gigs in 2024

A freelance writing job board is a website where you can find and apply for freelance writing work. Sometimes, you’ll do this through the site’s own interface; other times, the job board will direct you to a third-party website.

The freelance writing space is extremely diverse, and in the list below, you’ll find platforms where you can get paid to write all kinds of content, ranging from SEO blog posts to white papers to e-books. Read on for an overview of the most popular writing job boards that are active today.

1. Be a Freelance Blogger

Be a Freelance Blogger hosts a job board dedicated to freelance blogging jobs.

Types of jobs available: Freelance blogging assignments that pay at least $0.10 per word or $50 per post.

Fees and commissions: Free for writers to apply.

2. BloggingPro

BloggingPro hosts a job board with independent listings for writers. They also run a blog of their own, which features information and resources to help you get started with blogging professionally.

Types of jobs available: You can find open-ended freelance writing gigs, as well as:

• Full-time jobs
• Part-time jobs
• Remote work
• Temporary contracts
• Internships

Fees and commissions: Free for freelancers to apply for most jobs. Companies pay to post jobs on BloggingPro.

3. FlexJobs

FlexJobs is a job board that’s dedicated to remote and hybrid jobs, including freelance writing gigs. They claim to screen the listings they accept to ensure that you won’t waste your time with ads that aren’t serious (e.g., for scams, multi-level marketing schemes, etc.).

Types of jobs available: All sorts of listings, including full-time jobs and freelance gigs in various industries.

Fees and commissions: No commission, but requires a paid subscription to access their job board. A subscription costs:

• $24.95 per month (starts with a 14-day trial for $2.95)
• $71.40 for a year if you pay upfront (equivalent to $5.95 per month)

4. Freelancer.com

Freelancer.com is one of the largest freelance marketplaces in the world. Their site features a job board where freelancers can bid and compete for gigs they’re interested in.

Jobs available: Includes writing gigs, as well as jobs in other fields and industries (e.g., graphic design, web development, etc.).

Fees and commissions: You can bid for gigs up to 6 times a month for free. To get more bids, you’ll need to buy a monthly subscription, choosing one of the plans listed below:

• Basic: $4.99 for 60 bids per month
• Plus: $8.99 for 100 bids per month (1-month free trial available)
• Professional: $49.00 for 300 bids per month
• Premier: $99.00 for 1,500 bids per month

Freelancer.com also charges commissions to both businesses and freelancers. For freelancers, the per-project fee is either 10% of the final price or a flat $5, whichever is greater.

5. PeoplePerHour

PeoplePerHour offers freelance job listings for writers and professionals in other industries. It’s a UK-based job board, but you can apply for gigs regardless of where you’re based.

Types of jobs available: All sorts of freelance gigs, including writing projects.

Fees and commissions: Free for freelancers to apply for jobs. However, PeoplePerHour will take a percentage-based cut of your profits.

This works on a sliding scale based on the price of the job:

• 20% commission on projects worth under £250 (equivalent to about $315 as of December 2023)
• 7.5% on projects worth £250–£5,000 ($315–$6,305)
• 3.5% on projects worth more than £5,000 ($6,305+)

6. ProBlogger

Like the similarly named BloggingPro (which they’re unaffiliated with), ProBlogger hosts a writing-specific job board and provides blogging advice and resources.

Types of jobs available: Listings include contract jobs and freelance writing projects.

Fees and commissions: Free for freelancers to register and apply for jobs. Companies pay to post jobs through them.

7. Remote.co

Remote.co runs a job board that focuses on remote gigs, as their name suggests. You can find ads for both full-time and freelance writing jobs.

They indicate in their FAQ that they focus on connecting clients with “remote workers from Latin America,” but despite this, you can browse their job board and apply for gigs regardless of where you’re from (and currently living).

Types of jobs available: All sorts of listings, including full-time jobs and freelance gigs in various industries.

Fees and commissions: Remote.co is affiliated with FlexJobs, and clicking the “Sign Up” button on their homepage will direct you to FlexJobs’ registration page (which costs money). However, using the actual Remote.co site itself to search for work is free.

8. Upwork

Upwork is the largest online freelance marketplace in the world. It features remote and freelance gigs in virtually every field, including writing.

We spoke to Jacqueline Samaroo, one freelance writer who’s been using Upwork for over 10 years, who told us that this was her favorite of all the platforms she’s tried (which include other popular sites, like Fiverr).

“Upwork is worth using because of the sheer number of opportunities,” she said, meaning the number of jobs posted on it. This is a big selling point these days, as the amount of work on many sites has rapidly fallen off in the wake of the release of AI models like ChatGPT.

Samaroo also praised Upwork’s “vibrant, very vocal, and active” community of users, which you can find on the Upwork Community message boards, and the payment protection system and freelancer-client mediation services that the platform provides for its workers.

Upwork isn’t perfect, and we’ve also talked to freelancers who had more negative impressions of it (largely because of the cut it will take out of your profits), but Samaroo’s advice is to give it a try.

Types of jobs available: All sorts of freelance writing gigs, as well as work in other industries.

Fees and commissions: Upwork will take a 10% commission on each project.

9. We Work Remotely

We Work Remotely is a job board that hosts freelance and full-time remote jobs for writers and other types of remote workers.

Types of jobs available: All sorts of listings, including full-time jobs and freelance gigs in various industries.

Fees and commissions: Free for freelancers and job-seekers to apply for jobs and gigs.

There are other types of freelance writing websites that aren’t, strictly speaking, job boards. They generally offer a slightly different experience (e.g., by having their in-house editors pick projects that they think would be a good fit for you rather than allowing you to browse projects and apply for them independently).

We’ve listed some of the most popular writing websites in the table below.

Popular Content Agencies and Writing Websites

We’ve vetted all of these platforms to ensure they’re legitimate (and active). That said, historically, the landscape in the freelance writing industry has evolved very rapidly, and this is particularly true now, with the recent proliferation of AI-generated content.

Several popular platforms have already changed their business models in response to the rise of AI. We omitted several platforms from our list that are known to have recently laid off a significant number of freelancers or dramatically slashed their rates. In the coming months, some of the platforms that we did list may shake things up (or shut their doors to new freelancers) as well.

If you’re just getting started as a freelancer, be on your guard when you sign up for each new job board or writing platform. Do your homework beforehand to ensure that the website is legitimate and pays writers a fair rate.