Pitches (Culture, Politics, Criticism)

Current Affairs has a very particular tone and style. The best way to get a sense of what we’re looking for is to spend some time reading our material and carefully reading our writer's guide: https://images.currentaffairs.org/2021/04/Writers-Guide.pdf.

Subscriptions and back issues can be purchased through our website. You don’t have to be a Current Affairs subscriber to submit work to our magazine, but it sure does help! Not simply because we have a nepotistic bias toward paid members of the Current Affairs family (though we do), but because if a writer is unfamiliar with the kind of thing we publish, they are less likely to propose things that will fit well.

While we do accept (and encourage!) submissions, we only take a very small number. This is, first, because we are a small magazine with a highly constrained budget, and second, because we really are quite choosy due to our rather idiosyncratic style. If we do not accept your pitch, this in no way implies any judgment on its merits. We just may not be commissioning any pieces at that time (this is often the case), or it may simply not quite work in our magazine.