Freelance Writer

Freelancingforgood; United Kingdom; Remote; GBP 60,000 - 80,000; Part time

Job summary

A freelance writing opportunity is available for a capable writer to turn psychology studies into engaging articles for a lay audience. This position offers $25 per hour and requires 3-5 hours of work per week, with responsibilities including creating compelling content and conducting interviews. Authors will be credited as co-authors of the produced pieces. Apply with two writing samples and potentially join the Clearer Thinking newsletter team.

Qualifications

• Proven ability to write compelling articles for a general audience.
• Strong interviewing skills to extract essential ideas.
• Experience in simplifying complex academic content.

Responsibilities

• Create articles based on study results and interviews.
• Translate academic research into approachable content.
• Collaborate on content production as a co-author.

Skills

Writing skills

Ability to translate academic content

Interviewing skills

Research skills

Job description

Overview:

• Freelance position: 3-5 hour per week
• Language: English
• Location: Anywhere (Remote)
• Salary: $25 per hour
• Applications closing: until filled

Job Description

Hello! I (Spencer Greenberg) am looking for a writer to work with who can put in 3-5 hours per week reliably nearly every week.

The role will involve:

• Turning the results of psychology studies we run into compelling articles or essays for a lay audience
• Interviewing me on subjects (e.g., ideas for essays) and writing an article or essay based on that interview (and potentially additional research to supplement the interview)
• Turning topics in the academic literature into compelling articles for a lay audience

All content we produce together must:

• Add value to the reader’s life
• Be compelling – e.g., pull the reader in right away and keep their attention
• Be well-reasoned
• Explain ideas very clearly
• Avoid academic jargon (when it’s unnecessary) and carefully define and explain (for a lay audience) technical terminology (when it’s important to include)
• Avoid making exaggerated claims and appropriately caveat uncertainty

For this work, you would be credited as a co-author of the work (i.e., you and I would both be listed as authors of the pieces produced).

This is a contractor-based role with a pay of $25 per hour. It is a remote role, and you can do it from anywhere in the world.

You can find more about me (Spencer Greenberg) here.

Most of the writing we do together would end up being used on our Clearer Thinking newsletter (which has 240,000 subscribers) so long as the Clearer Thinking team is satisfied with it.

Here are some examples of articles I’ve written:

• Doing what you value as a life philosophy – an introduction to Valuism
• Eleven theories for how to achieve true happiness
• On Fables and Nuanced Charts

How to apply?

If you’re interested, please fill out this form.

Applying requires having two writing samples that you can provide. If you move to the next step of this hiring process, we’ll invite you to a paid work assignment.