Submissions

Studio welcomes article pitches from both emerging and established writers, academics, scholars, and journalists writing about contemporary Canadian craft and design and related stories. We are interested in original ideas, unique voices and perspectives, little-known histories, and anything that challenges the status quo of craft and design and the ideas around making.

Studio Magazine is a national publication committed to thoughtful, careful, and engaging writing about contemporary Canadian craft and design. We also have an ongoing commitment to supporting and mentoring writers.

Call for submissions

Spring/Summer 2025: STRUCTURE/S
Deadline: September 30, 2024

One of the definitions for structure in the Oxford English Dictionary is: “the existing arrangement and mutual relation of the constituent parts of a material object, esp. as determining its distinctive nature or character; physical composition, frame, or make-up.” For this issue of Studio, we’re interested in how structure applies to, defines, and informs various crafts and their relationships with people, places, flows, markets and materials.

  • What structural arrangements are involved in Canadian craft and design production?

  • How do craft and design shape various structures — in every sense of the word, from buildings, to institutions, to processes and procedures?

  • How do structures provide a framework for inquiry, and which structures need to be challenged/dismantled?

  • How are relationships across practices/materials/expressions expressed by structures, and how are they challenged?

  • How are new ideas/futures imagined through structures, both ideological and physical?

WRITERS: Submit pitches to our form here.

PORTFOLIO: Makers submit your work here.

We review all pitches, and those that are accepted for publication will be contacted by email. Payment is upon publication.

Print

Articles (Lead 1,500-2,000 words; Feature 1,200-1,500 words; Mini under 1,000 words):
Essays, reportage, profiles, and literary non-fiction that engage with contemporary craft—process, object, media, makers—or general interest issues that can be explored through Canadian craft.

Review essays (750-1,000 words):
Thematic essays that directly reference craft shows, exhibitions, publications, archives, movements, etc., bringing one or more into conversation with each other.

Interviews (length varies):
Compelling conversations with makers, artists, artisans, designers, curators, collectors, researchers, arts administrators, historians, buyers, etc. who are actively engaged in contemporary Canadian craft and design.

Occasionally, we commission writers and photographers. If you would like to be considered, please send us an email with the following information:
- Bio (including how you identify)
- Where you are located (or travelling to)
- Your interest in Canadian craft and design
- Links to online work.

Editorial Submission Guidelines

  1. Read the Studio Magazine and website to familiarize yourself with our tone and style.

  2. Pitching a review essay? Consider an unconventional and unique approach to the subject, from interdisciplinary media to a new critical lens. 

  3. If you have not written for Studio before, please attach or link to one or two relevant excerpts of your writing. Include a short bio and contact information.

  4. Keep it short: limit the length of your pitch to under 250 words.

  5. We do not accept previously-written articles or simultaneous submissions.

Thank you—we look forward to reading your pitches,

- The Studio Magazine editorial team

Please be patient—we deal with a large amount of correspondence. Please feel free to follow up with us if you haven’t received a response to your pitch within three months.