Pitches (Politics)

The Sask Dispatch is accepting pitches for our unthemed Jan/Feb 2025 issue. Pitches are due September 8, 2024.

What we're looking for

Broadly, we're always looking for pitches covering provincial and municipal elections, grassroots activism, Indigenous rights, arts and culture, economic justice, ecology, gender equity, harm reduction, and more. This editor would like to increase reporting on rural Saskatchewan, arts and culture, and grassroots activism.

How to pitch

Your pitch should include a brief synopsis of what your piece will cover, an estimated word count, and your relevant experience or background in writing about the issue. Please send pitches to amielle[at]briarpatchmagazine.com.

Before pitching, take a look at some of the work published on our website to see what we have recently covered. Please review our submission guidelines to improve your pitch.

If you have not written for Sask Dispatch before, please provide a brief writing sample.

If your pitch is accepted, first drafts are due October 14, 2024, with an intensive collaborative editing process lasting until mid-November. We reserve the right to edit your work (with your active involvement), and cannot guarantee publication.

We aim to reply to every pitch – including those we reject. However, because of time constraints, this isn’t always possible. If you don’t hear back from us within three weeks following the pitch deadline for the issue that you submitted to, please assume that we won’t be accepting your pitch. Feel free to pitch us again, though!

Our standard rates of pay for articles are as follows:

$100 – Profiles, short essays, and reviews (generally <1,000 words)

$200 – Feature stories (generally 1,000-1,500 words), photo essays

$300 – Research-based articles and investigative reportage with extensive primary research (generally 1,500-2,000 words)