Call for Pitches

C166—Spring 2027

Accepted until: December 14, 2026

The Spring 2027 issue of C Magazine will be unthemed. It’s been quite some time since we had an unthemed issue! We invite pitches on the artistic and cultural production that is on your mind and in your work right now.

C continues to platform lively and in-depth artist projects and writing, focussing on contemporary Canadian practitioners, while making international connections to repeating themes, obsessions, and worries of our current moment(s), ever cascading back into histories. For this issue, we further encourage you to get (more) critical, thorough with your analyses, or bring the weird idea that you haven’t had a platform for. We encourage well-considered boundary-pushing of what art writing can look like, and experiments with form. We know that different forms hold different ways of transferring knowledge or embedding wider public narratives, and welcome fresh/other perspectives on what vigorous cultural discourse and coverage can look like.

We invite pitches covering usual content (but feel free to spin them in off-kilter ways):

• Features: taking a variety of styles from interviews to dialogues, profiles, thematic essays around a body of artworks, and aforementioned experiments
• Reviews: of exhibitions, publications, moving image works, performance art, etc. of the present or recent past (within 4 months for exhibitions, and 2 years for publications and moving images)
• Composition column: a space for creative writing and visual practices adjacent to art writing, which can include visual and text pieces that, when combined, specifically engage the print magazine form

To see the kinds of pieces we publish, check out our current issue C163 CHORUS, our upcoming C164 Filth, or C online.

Send pitches to pitch@cmagazine.com by December 14, 2026, with a subject line that starts with the word PITCH and indicates the submission type (review, essay, interview, feature, composition, e.g.).

What to include:
*~150 words about your subject and how you’ll approach it, including hyperlinks if relevant
*An estimated word count (except for Reviews, which run 800-1000 words)
*If you have not written for us recently, please include a link to your website or a copy of CV for us to learn more about you, and one or two writing samples (ideally ones in a style similar to your pitched piece). We do not publish reprints or previously written pieces unless with prior discussion. See our writer’s guidelines for more information.

We will contact accepted pitches within 4 weeks after the deadline.

Note about conflicts of interest: we do not accept pitches from platforms regarding their own programming.