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Afrolicious
Black Africans and Black African diasporas. Nigeria qualifies. This is not a worldwide open call.
An independent publication for working writers
Learn to write, get published, get paid.
142 publications researched by hand — what they pay, how long, who they are open to — plus 197 guides, 48 free tools and the essays behind the market. Free, independent, human-verified.
142Publications researched
104Accepting now
77Open worldwide
10BRYME tested
Snapshot 2026-09-04 — every entry carries its own last-checked date.
In this publication
Contents
- 01Learn to writeThe guide library — craft, process, grammar and the business of freelancing.→
- 02Find places to publishThe atlas — every researched publication, arranged by country.→
- 03Write & get paidThe desk — rates, rights, invoicing, and who pays.→
- 04Writing toolsInstruments that run in your browser. No account, nothing uploaded.→
- 05Writing intelligenceResearch notes and market watch from the editorial desk.→
- 06EssaysArguments and investigations — the highest shelf in the library.→
The tool chest
Instruments for the working writer
- Word counterCount words, characters and paragraphs as you type.
- Images to PDFTurn JPG/PNG images into a single PDF, one per page.
- Freelance rate calculatorWork out what you must charge per hour, per word and per piece.
- Invoice generatorFill in the work, print a clean invoice — nothing leaves your browser.
- Freelance agreement builderDraft a plain-language freelance agreement — fill in, print, both sides sign.
- Late payment letter builderChase an unpaid invoice in three escalating steps — polite to firm to final — without torching the relationship.
Essays
Arguments about the business of writing.
International
What writing platforms actually pay — the numbers, not the pitches
Ream pays creators $1.3M a year across 15,000 authors. That is about $87 each. Here is the real arithmetic behind seven platforms that pay writers.
International
The magazine AI ban is spreading faster than writers realise
Seven of the 33 publications BRYME verified in September 2026 now prohibit AI-written submissions outright — and the wording is getting stricter, not softer.
International
Stacker News review — getting paid in bitcoin for writing
A platform where readers pay you directly in bitcoin, no bank or Stripe involved, the take rate is published, and the earnings are almost certainly tiny.
The archive
A library, not a feed.
Every guide, every essay and every publication dossier is indexed and permanent — researched by hand, dated when checked, and corrected in the open.