Pitches wanted (cheese) | ~$100 per piece

COMPANY/PUBLICATION: CHEESE MAGAZINE

We're officially accepting pitches for Issue 2 of Cheese! Writers, cheese enthusiasts, turophiles, please email us at thecheesemag@gmail.com. A set of pitch guidelines that explain what we're looking for is below. Deadline: not for the next week at least.

PITCHING GUIDELINES

CHEESE is a magazine of culture; we explore people, place and product.

Each piece we commission is to be focused on a specific cheese - you are telling the story of culture through the lens of a cheese. Ultimately this is a magazine about people, so even stories about place, need to be about the people and the community

We are interested in:

• Historical stories
• Profile pieces
• Stories that look at communities
• Personal experiences / relationship to a cheese
• Stories about cows (/ farming / agriculture)
• Interesting drinks pairings
• How a cheese has shaped a community / a local economy / a culture
• Photo stories

WE AREN’T INTERESTED IN:

• Reviews of a particular cheese, one-off interviews (with cheesemongers, cheesemakers, farmers), travelogues, coverage of a cheese festival
• Have a look at the below issue 1 contents to know what cheese and topics we've already covered

WORD COUNT:

We are open to short and long reads (anywhere between 750 and 2000 words)

THINGS TO BE AWARE OF:

• Each issue will look to get a balance of global regions, style of cheese; therefore two soft cheeses are unlikely to be featured in one issue, or a cheese from South West France and another from the Spanish Basque Country.
• Each piece has a focus on a specific cheese - through that cheese a story is told.

RATES:

Currently, our rates are fixed at £75 for commissioned articles of any length and £50 for photos.

If you are a writer with experience in photography or you can shoot good pictures to go with your story/would like to, do let us know when you pitch. If you can provide links to your published photography, that’d be great as well.

HOW TO PITCH CHEESE:

• Pitches should be 2 to 3 paragraphs and emailed to thecheesemag@gmail.com.
• Give us an idea of what the story is all about, how you would cover it, how many words do you envision it to be
• Please be clear about which specific cheese you've chosen to focus on (of course other cheese can be mentioned!)
• If you have any links to your previously published pieces, please include 2-3 of them as well. They don’t have to necessarily be about cheese or even food!
• If you want to take photos as part of your piece, do mention that.

Looking forward to hearing from you!

Anna Sulan Masing, Editor-in-chief
Holly Catford, Art Director
Apoorva Sripathi, Editor

CONTACT INFORMATION:

Questions / submissions: thecheesemag@gmail.com

Website: https://www.thecheesemagazine.com/