Pitches wanted (revenge) | ~$400 to $1,600 per article

COMPANY/PUBLICATION: GUTS

Deadline: 31 March 2022

This is your last week to send in pitches for the REVENGE issue. You don't have to live in Canada or be an NDN to pitch us.

Call for Submissions: REVENGE

there are many hungers—
no matter, i am not the hungry one here.
— jaye simpson, “beautiful monsters in uncanny valley,” it was never going to be okay

We are witnessing a shift in the ways history and heritage are defined in so-called Canada. The people don’t want reconciliation. The people want revenge. The people want repatriation of stolen artifacts. The people want reparations for transatlantic enslavement. The people want Land Back. Daddy Canada, make it rain.

GUTS invites unpublished writing on the theme of REVENGE for our first issue of the re-branded, re-launched, and re-newed GUTS magazine. We want to know if you think revenge is a dish best served piping hot, or cold, cold, cold. What does revenge mean to you?

We’re looking for visual and written essays, interviews, comics, journalism, poetry, short fiction, and humour all on the topic of REVENGE.

TOPICS TO THINK ABOUT:

Migration; displacement; transformation; grassroots movements; wildfires; missions back to your hometown; that mean girl from high school who became a nurse; gender anarchy; tearing down statues; reinvention; reanimation; renewal; fluidity; change; justice; there is no justice, even transformative, on stolen lands; the body keeps the score; water is life; drinking water; no TERF shit; renaming; reworking; water under the bridge; an eye for an eye; crip revenge on public space; mad pride; down with sanism; the long game; revenge as healing; revenge as self destruction; revenge for revenge’s sake; harm reduction; living; reproductive futures; sex worker revenge; the “mad Indigenous woman” stereotype; no bad victims; no landlords; houseless communities taking back carceral spaces from the state; abolition; bimbofying refusal; the masculinist surveillance of tone; and more.

Submit a short pitch (maximum 300 words) for the REVENGE issue describing your proposed project no later than March 31st, 2022 to submit@gutsmagazine.ca. Please include a link to or copy of a writing sample that you feel adequately represents your work. Please look over our past issues to get a sense of the kind of work we’re looking for.

First drafts will be due on May 15, 2022 and final submissions (500-4,000 words) will be due on June 15, 2022.

Compensation will be provided for contributors selected for the issue. Compensation rates are competitive. Please see our Submissions page for more information.

If you have any questions or comments about the submission process, please email us at submit@gutsmagazine.ca.

CONTACT INFORMATION:

• Questions / submissions: submit@gutsmagazine.ca
• Website: http://gutsmagazine.ca/

TO HELP YOU CRAFT YOUR PITCH:

• Learn more about the publication: Guts publishes feminist literary essays and reviews, long-form journalism, interviews, columns, and new media to further feminist discourse, criticism, and community engagement. It aims to shed light on the systemic forces and intersecting oppressions that isolate women, non-binary and trans people through the collective interpretation of feminist issues. It strives to create a public for a new kind of correspondence that centres an anti-colonial feminist perspective. More information here.
• Read through its selection of recent articles/stories, categorized into: Politics, Culture, Lives, Arts
• Review the submission guidelines here.
• Check out our collection of pitch excerpts on this page and find more sample pitches at The Open Notebook Database and at SuccessfulPitches.com.
• Do not forget to end your pitch with (1) a short introduction about yourself; (2) a paragraph 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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