Wednesday, September 24th 2025
Sixty Inches from Center is a non-profit arts publication and archiving initiative that promotes art and writing in Chicago and the Midwest. They’re looking for “pitches in languages beyond English, especially Spanish (with priority to Puerto Rican & Central American vernacular), Southeast Asian languages, Native languages, and Polish.” “What do we mean by bilingual? You can either publish an article written in bilingual (for ex. Spanglish) or you can also write a full article in English and translate the article into your respective language (for ex. Portuguese & English). So far Sixty has published Oneida, Traditional Chinese, Hindi, Gujarati, French, and Portuguese, and we want to continue to represent the many languages spoken across the Midwest.” Rate is $150 per article. To learn more, refer to their post and this page.
Tuesday, June 3rd 2025
Sixty Inches from Center is a non-profit arts publication and archiving initiative that promotes art and writing in Chicago and the Midwest. They’re accepting pitches for Midwest arts writing. They pay $150 per article. To learn more, refer to their post and this page.
Tuesday, June 18th 2024
Sixty Inches from Center is a non-profit arts publication and archiving initiative that promotes art and writing in Chicago and the Midwest. They’re partnering with Black Lunch Table (a radical archiving project) on a new editorial series called Crowdsourcing the Canon. They’re looking for reviews and essays (up to 1,000 words) on Midwestern Black artists, particularly those whose Wikipedia entries lack sufficient citations. Rate is $350. To learn more, refer to this post and this call for pitches.
Deadline: July 1st, 2024
Tuesday, May 21st 2024
Sixty Inches from Center is a non-profit arts publication and archiving initiative that promotes art and writing in Chicago and the Midwest. They’re always open to pitches for responses to their Art Picks. As per their pitch guide, they pay $150/article. To learn more, refer to their post.
Tuesday, October 10th 2023
Sixty Inches from Center is a
non-profit arts publication and archiving initiative that promotes art and
writing in Chicago and the Midwest. Their bilingual editor is looking for
writers to cover some amazing things that are happening in the Midwest. Pay
starts at $150. If interested, send your pitches to luz@sixtyinchesfromcenter.org
or submit them here.
To read their bilingual editor’s post, click here.
Friday, September 8th 2023
Sixty Inches from Center is a non-profit arts publication and archiving initiative that promotes art and writing in Chicago and the Midwest. They’re seeking pitches covering the Performing Arts in the Midwest. They publish articles in both Spanish and English. They pay $150/article to writers, photographers, and illustrators; $150 for a collection of poems; and $1/minute transcribed for interview transcriptions. To learn more, refer to their post and this page.
Sunday, June 18th 2023
Sixty Inches from Center is a non-profit arts publication and archiving initiative that promotes art and writing in Chicago and the Midwest. They’re always seeking “Midwest writers to pitch essays, interviews, reviews, poetry, photo essays, & experimental writing on art of all disciplines, archives, and labor in the arts.” They pay a standard rate of $150/article. For details, refer to their founder’s tweet and this page.
Sunday, March 7th 2021
Sixty Inches from Center is a non-profit
arts publication and archiving initiative that promotes art and writing in
Chicago and the Midwest. They welcome “writers & artists of all experience
levels to pitch ideas for traditional/experimental art writing, interviews,
poetry, essays, audio, video, comics, animations, & stories around topics
& practices relevant to the cultural landscapes of the Midwest.” They give
priority to “writing by, about, and for BIPOC and LGBTQIA+ artists, artists
with disabilities, and the long list of writing, art-making, and cultural
practices that have been neglected in mainstream conversations and canons about
art and culture.” They pay $25 to $125 per article. For details, refer to this Twitter
thread and their writing guide.
Monday, March 23rd 2020
Sixty Inches From Center is accepting “pitches
on art and artists in Chicago and the Midwest—interviews, essays, reviews,
experimental writings, bilingual writings, etc.” They pay $25 to $100 per
article. To learn more, refer to their founder’s Tweet
and this page.