List of Freelance Writing Sites

Constant Content
A site where writers can showcase their articles with a preset price tag and have interested publishers buy them. Has strict standards for submissions (free of grammar mistakes etc) so check to make sure that you are submitting a flawless article. If you have articles that you have published elsewhere before, you can still sell them for usage rights here.

DailyArticle
A site where you can showcase your articles and sell full ownership rights to them.

Demand Studios
Offers upfront payments for articles. No passive income though and you lose your rights to your articles once they are published. Only available to US residents.

Textbroker
Only available to US residents. Pays on a "price per word" basis, with higher rated writers being able to command a higher price.

Bright Hub
Bright Hub is a science and technology content site. They're currently paying writers $10 per article, in addition to future revenue sharing.

Words Of Worth
At Words of Worth, you enter into a contract with them, whereby you promise to deliver 10 to 80 articles in a month, depending on the contract, and they pay you £250. More details here

Bukisa
Personally, I don't like Bukisa. It seems to be to be a content site that's focused on quantity and not quality. There are quite a number of peole who do recommend Bukisa though. Bukisa has a 3 tier referral system, which means that you get a cut of the earnings of the referrals of the referrals of your referrals. As far as I can tell, that's the reason most of the people are recommending it. But like I mentioned, I don't like it. They even set up a Help page which has nothing on it except "Coming Soon" and a link to their FAQ. It's now Aug 31st 2009. Bukisa was started in 2008. That's a long time to set up a Help page. *Updated on Nov 10th 2009: it has come to my attention that Bukisa no longer has a "Coming Soon" Help page with nothing on it. I wonder if my lens had anything to do with this change...

Squidoo
A site that lets you build your own web pages, called "lenses" on Squidoo and earn from them.

Hubpages
Another site that lets you build your own web pages and display your articles on them, letting you earn passive income.

Triond
A site where you can publish your work and earn a passive income through page views generated by your articles. One of the better paying sites for passive income.

Suite101
A site where you can publish your work and earn through page views. Requires writers to publish at least 10 articles every 3 months.

Shvoong
A site where you can publish your work and have them earn a passive income.

Helium
Has a very active marketplace where publishers will request specific articles and frequent contests, both of which offer writers the opportunity to earn lump sum payments. Articles published will generate passive income. Also, each article will earn a writer $0.50 x his writng star rating(up to a maximum of 5). However, Helium does require a fair amount of commitment from you each month, requiring writers to maintain at least one rating star to be eligible to earn.

Associated Content
Has contests every now and then, and specific article requests every now and then, so writers have a chance to earn lump sum payments. Also offers upfront payment for articles, but this is restricted to certain topics and only available to US citizens. Articles published will generate passive income.

Qondio
Qondio is an interesting site. While it does allow you to earn Adsense revenue on your articles, the focus on Qondio seems to be to let you build backlinks. Every piece of intel that you submit has a backlink to the site of your choice. Used to be called Qassia.

Note: Starting from 14th March 2009, Qondio charges users a one time fee of $5USD to sign up an account.

Gzyn
Site that lets writers place their work there and generate revenue using Google Adsense. Takes a 10% cut from your profits.

Xomba
Xomba lets writers place their work there and generate revenue from Google Adsense. Adsense profits are split 50/50 between the site and writers. That doesn't sound very attractive, but Xomba makes up for that with frequent contests where writers stand to win cash prizes. In addition, Xomba articles can also be used to generate backlinks to your other blog/site/other articles.

Print N Post
Another "place Google Adsense on your articles there and earn" site. Community-wise, the site doesn't appear to be very large and Print N Post has a dismal Page Rank of 3. However, linking is allowed in your articles, and links are quality links, which makes it useful as a site to write excerpts linking to your main articles published elsewhere.

Feed The Village
This revenue sharing site doesn't pay out based on page views an article has generated. Instead, this site pays out based on how many articles a writer has submitted at Feed the Village. For example, if a writer has submitted 10 articles, and there are currently 1000 articles on the site, Feed the Village will pay the writer 10/1000 of the writers' share of the revenue earned for the month, which is 10% of the total revenue earned. Writers have to have written at least 5 articles in a given month to get paid. The site emphasises that it donates to charity. While it's certainly not the only site to donate to charity (10% of it's total revenue), it's certainly one of the sites which has taken special care to highlight that fact.

Online Writing Jobs Site with job listings for writers

Genuine Jobs
You'll have to sign up as a member to access the job listings. Memebership is free.

Writing Career.com
Has a section devoted to job listings for writers.

Sunoasis
More suitable for US residents, as most jobs are based in the US. There a few jobs that require writers in other places like the UK or Canada, or even internationally but writers will have to sieve through lots of job offers to find those.

iFreelance
A site where writers can bid on job offers.

Elance
A site where writers can bid on job offers.

Get A Freelancer
A site where writers can bid on job offers.

Writing Bids
A bidding site where writers can bid on job offers.

Writers Weekly
Has a section devoted to job listings for writers.

Freelance Writing Gigs
Has a section devoted to job listings for writers.

Funds For Writers

oDesk
A site where writers can bid on job offers.

Journalism Jobs
Site with job listings for writers.

Writer's Market
Paid subscription needed for this site. They do however offer a free trial period.

Editorial Freelancers Association
Paid membership needed.

Freelance Daily
Has a daily newsletter with job listings. Offers a free trial period of 1 week, after which you have to pay $3.95 per month for subscription.

Absolute Write
Has a free newsletter listing jobs for writers. Also has a forum section devoted to paid writing assignments.

Freelance Free
Site where writers can bid on job offers. Quite a lot of these appear to only want Indian writers.

PoeWar.com

Get A Coder
Although much of the assignmnets here are programming based assignments, you can still find freelance writing jobs here. You can filter your search results to only show writing assignments.

Writerlance

Guru
A site where writers can bid on job offers.

Online Writing Jobs.net

Freelance Writing

Craigs List
While you can find some freelance writing gigs on Craigs List, you do have to be careful about which requests you answer to. Quite a number of them are just attempts to get your e-mail so they can send spam to you.

Accentuate Writers Forum A forum with a section devoted to writing leads. Leads posted there tend to pay quite well.

Freelance Writing Income From Home A blog by Bianca Raven, a freelance writer with 6 years of experience currently earning a yearly six figure income. Good writing leads are posted there every now and then, and she also blogs about other writing related stuff

About Freelance Writing
A blog about freelance writing with job postings, and reviews on writing sites.

Write And Earn A Living A writing-related blog offering tips and tricks about freelance writing.
Has a job listings section.

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eHow
A site dealing in "How to" articles. While the site does accept international members, it only pays U.S residents for articles currently.

How to Do Things.com
Another site that publishes "How to" articles.

Tutorial Tub
A site which lets you earn by displaying your tutorials (another way of calling "How To" articles) and earning through Google Adsense.

Newsvine
A site that publishes only news articles.

Ground Report
Another site that only accepts news articles.

Student Network Resources
This site specialises in "research work". Note: Writing student term papers is seen by quite a lot of people as unethical. However, if you really must write term papers, (though I cannot fathom why) then at least write for a site that won't cheat you. There are far too many paper mills around that cheat writers. Academia-research, for example.

Storymash
A site specialising in works of fiction.

Wisebread
A site that focuses mainly on financial topics, though it does publish articles that focuses on other issues.

Letter Rep
As you might guess from the name, this site focuses only on letter assignments.

Review Party
A review site, this site lets you earn by letting you place Amazon affiliate links and Google Adsense on your reviews.

Epinions
Another review site. Pays $10 for 10 reviews. While the site does pay to non-U.S residents, only U.S residents are eligible for the contests held by the site. Payout is also set higher for non-U.S residents.

Ciao
You earn on this review site whenever another member reads and rates your reviews.

Dooyoo
Available only to residents of Germany, UK, Italy, Spain and France.

Rate It All
It's kind of a cross between a social networking site and review site. But then, most review sites do have some sort of social networking element.

Shared Reviews
A site publishing product reviews, This site ran into funding problems during 2008 and had to put it's revenue sharing program on hold. It has since started to pay it's members again though.

Sites here are either sites that I haven't decided where they would belong to on my list, or sites that I have yet to take a close look at

Gather

Rankrz

Informative Post

Buzzle

Help Your Money

Writing Campus

Oocuz

Blog Posts For Sale

Common Ties

Oondi

Knol

Sites on my to be watched list

These are sites which I have found quite a lot of negative stuff about, but have not yet gathered enough conclusive evidence to take them off and put on my "sites to avoid" list. If you have any links or information regarding these sites, please leave a comment so I can look into it.

Life Tips
Site where writers can apply to be paid for tip writing assignments. I am just not sure about this site. Something about this site seems to be rubbing me off the wrong way. Actually, scratch that. It's not something, it's a number of things.

Oboulo.com
There are quite a number of things on the site that are raising red flags for me, but for now I would rather spend my time looking at legitimate sites that I haven't looked at, rather than spend it on verifying a a suspicious site that has already raised several red flags when I have not even looked beyond the site.