Pitches wanted (social movement, labor, etc.) | ~$150-$220 per article

COMPANY/PUBLICATION: MIDNIGHT SUN

Preoccupied with a question or argument about left/labour/social movement strategy? About how the forces of liberation might build power? pitch us: editors @ midnightsunmag dot ca. Currently we pay up to CAD $300 for articles and $100+ for poetry. Curious? Read on..

We're especially interested in reading pitches by comrades who are too seldom featured in left media: Indigenous and Black and racialized, working-class LGBTQ2+, disabled, and/or without a university education. We review pitches on a rolling basis.

If you experience oppression on one or more of those bases and would like support in shaping a pitch, or just to bat around article ideas, please do reach out – we’d be excited to chat. We prioritize writers living in so-called Canada but are open to comrades located anywhere.

Neither a news magazine nor a scholarly journal, Midnight Sun seeks to be a forum for writing that tries to bridge revolutionary theory and practice. Open to lots of topics and approaches, but right now we're especially curious about...

How do unions and rank-and-file organizers build worker capacity so they can escalate effectively at key moments like last fall's Ontario education workers' strike? What needs to happen – and what's already happening – behind the scenes to lay the groundwork for those moments?

Where do climate justice movements go from here? If the period immediately pre-pandemic saw a distinct escalation in that organizing and mobilizing, followed by a lot of fragmentation, where are we at now? What might be possible?

What are the institutional or infrastructural forms of a revolutionary internationalism? What’s needed? How might we build it? Is it possible and desirable to work towards the development of revolutionary political parties in our times?

What can we learn from experiments around the world to build mass socialist organizations, whether parties or other forms, especially in the Global South?

Inflation, monetary policy, fiscal policy – how should the left make sense of this moment’s economic convulsions and the ruling class’s attempt to control them? What opportunities and dangers do capitalism’s intensifying crises present?

What solidarities might be built (or have already been built) between anti-fascist, Black liberation, and Indigenous sovereignty struggles, which so often share common enemies?

How do we push institutions of organized labour and the left to consolidate (more than is already the case) around urgent working-class struggles unfolding outside of workplaces: overdose prevention, for example, or housing justice or food security?

How should connections between Canadian settler-colonialism at home and the state's extractive, expropriative roles abroad shape our organizing? How can making those connections build support for anti-colonial liberation struggles from Wet'suwet'en to Palestine?

What are strategies and tactics by which oppression in the workplace can be combatted from below, empowering workers and worker self-organization more than bosses and HR?

How might abolitionist theory and practice, especially its crucial iterations rooted in queer Black feminist world-making, inform the work of many different social movements, directly and indirectly bolstering the fight to end prisons and police?

What can sex workers' organizing teach us about organizing those excluded from or neglected by the traditional labour movement? How do we push back against that exclusion and neglect?

What are the important histories and possible futures of socialism-from-below in the Canadian state, organizing that sees socialism as growing out of radical democracy in workplaces and neighbourhoods? What might we build? What could be possible?

We welcome submissions from active organizers who may not consider themselves writers, as well as from writers who may be inexperienced with writing on questions of political strategy but who feel an affinity with the magazine's project.

We’re happy to consider unsolicited submissions of short articles or a poem or two, though in general we prefer to receive pitches. Got an idea? Drop us an email!

CONTACT INFORMATION (please do not share the email address publicly):

• Questions/submissions: editors@midnightsunmag.ca
• Website: https://www.midnightsunmag.ca/

TO HELP YOU CRAFT YOUR PITCH:

• Learn more about the publication: Midnight Sun is a magazine of socialist strategy, analysis and culture. Neither a news magazine nor a scholarly journal, it is a forum for writing that tries to bridge revolutionary theory and practice, that weds a deep curiosity about how the world works to an urgent interest in how to organize most effectively for justice. More information here.
• Read through a selection of recent articles/stories on its website.
• Review the submission guidelines here. Note that these are the publication's general guidelines to help you refine your pitch. You must still follow the editor's specific instructions above.
• Check out our collection of pitch excerpts on this page and find more sample pitches at The Open Notebook and at SuccessfulPitches.com.
• Do not forget to end your pitch with (1) a short introduction about yourself; (2) a few lines highlighting your writing experience, relevant credentials and publication credits; and (3) links to your strongest work or portfolio, and online profile.

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