Creating Access for All
How RWJ is supported, sustained, and expanded.
Remote Writing Jobs is structured to make access to location-independent writing work more fair and transparent and to reduce the distance between writers and opportunities that respect their time, skill, and labor. This outlines how that access is supported, sustained, and expanded through subscriptions and shared contribution.
At its core, RWJ is funded by the writers who use it but it’s also strengthened by those who believe in widening access beyond individual use. That includes direct subscriptions, gifted access, donated support, and contributions that help expand the work into new forms including RWJ evolving into a paying market for original writing through its own in-house publication.
Together, these pieces allow RWJ to function as both a directory and a developing space for paid writing beyond traditional listings.
Subscription Options
Access to the Remote Writing Jobs directory is exclusive to paid subscribers with two core options designed for different stages of a writer’s workflow.
$15/month
This is the core subscription option designed for flexibility and ease of entry.
It works well for writers exploring new directions, testing opportunities, or moving through periods of transition where committing long-term doesn’t yet feel necessary. It allows you to stay connected to new listings as they appear without needing to plan around a longer horizon.
The monthly plan is also for writers who prefer to move in shorter cycles where writing work, applications, and career direction may be shifting. It keeps the door open without requiring a longer commitment upfront.
$120/year
Annual access is for writers who want uninterrupted use over time whether they’re actively applying, rebuilding momentum, or steadily growing their writing practice.
It reduces the need to think about monthly renewals and allows this resource to become a consistent part of your workflow rather than something you revisit month to month.
At the monthly rate, a full year would total $180. The yearly plan lowers that cost by 33% and offers the best value.
Founding Writer Ally
Some supporters choose to invest more directly in the long-term growth of RWJ through the Founding Writer Ally plan, a $500+/year contribution.
This level of support helps sustain RWJ as an independent resource while also funding the in-house publication where writers are commissioned and paid $1/word for original work. As a Founding Writer Ally you support both access and creation helping expand the number of paid opportunities that exist beyond the directory itself.
Minimum $500/year. Higher support always welcome.
Paying It Forward
People often ask how they can support RWJ beyond their own subscription. This work is sustained not only through individual access but through shared belief that writers deserve transparency, dignity, and access at every stage of their careers. If you’re looking for other ways to support this work, here are a few meaningful options:
Gift subscriptions
Know a writer navigating uncertainty in their job search? You can gift RWJ directly as a way of supporting their work in a more immediate, practical way.
Gift subscriptions can be purchased as either monthly or annual access and are delivered directly to the recipient.
This is a simple way to pay it forward to someone actively looking for better opportunities, more stability, or a clearer path forward in their writing career.
Donated annual subscriptions
There are always writers in need of access who are navigating financial uncertainty while trying to continue their work. Even with a relatively generous annual price that reality remains.
To support broader access, I offer donated annual subscriptions ($120 each). These contributions are used to provide full-year access to writers who wouldn’t otherwise be able to subscribe.
One donation removes the pressure of monthly decision-making for a writer and gives them a full year of stability to focus on their work. If you have the means you’re welcome to contribute more than one.
Donated subscriptions are distributed on a first-come, first-served basis to writers who apply for hardship access.
Hardship Requests
To apply, email melissa@remotewritingjobs.org with a brief explanation of your circumstances. No questions asked, no judgement. Your request will be reviewed and matched with a donated annual subscription as soon as one becomes available ensuring that no writer is left without the support they deserve.
Group Access
RWJ also offers group access for writers who move together, learn together, or want to support each other through the job search process.
Whether you’re part of a writing team, community, classroom, cohort, or small organization, group access makes it easier to keep costs down while maintaining consistent, shared access to new opportunities.
Group plans are available for annual subscriptions only and begin at 5 or more members with a 20% discount applied.
This option is designed for shared environments where access to better opportunities doesn’t belong to just one person but circulates through a wider network of writers supporting each other’s work.
Tip Jar
I gratefully accept tips as part of sustaining this work.
I know there can be hesitation around asking for or offering support in this way but this is my full-time work and livelihood and I’ve learned to move without shame around that reality. This project moves forward because people choose to support it in ways that extend beyond access alone. That support helps keep RWJ steady and makes it possible for me to keep it fully resourced with my time and attention.
For those already subscribed or supporting in other ways, thank you. If you choose to contribute here as well, it’s another way of participating in the upkeep of something you find useful.
I appreciate it and I don’t take it for granted.
Prefer to Venmo me instead? My username is @remotewritingjobs.
With gratitude,
Melissa Tripp, Founder of RWJ
Everything behind the care of this platform and the writers it serves is shared in my piece, ‘How I Built a Writing Job Directory That Pays Writers What They’re Worth.’