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

Fall/Winter 2024: SPECTACLE
Deadline: March 31, 2024

For this issue of Studio, we’re looking for essays on the spectacular in craft. We’re interested in how craftspeople, processes, materials, and work are used to draw attention. We’re intrigued in presentations of craft beyond the display of crafted objects in museums, galleries, and shops. What are the connections between craft and performance, from the rise of the celebrity maker to the use of crafted objects as props to communicate identity? Topics of interest include:
Making and performance: how is craft used by performance artists, and how do craftspeople perform their work for an audience?
How do crafted objects contribute to the production of spectacle (e.g. the sculpture-smashing scene in the wildly popular Glass Onion)?
What are the relationships between craft and entertainment?
Making has become part of celebrity culture, from stars who publicly take up craft as a hobby (like the actor Seth Rogen’s pottery, or the rapper Juvenile’s furniture-making) to crafts artists and makers who become celebrities through reality TV programmes like All That Glitters and Blown Away — what does this mean for the future of craft?

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.

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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.