Tuesday, May 6th 2025
The Sask Dispatch is a Saskatchewan-focused news publication by Briarpatch Magazine. They are seeking a second piece for their unthemed September/October issue and are accepting pitches until the end of the week. They pay $100 for profiles, short essays, and reviews (less than 1,000 words); $200 for feature stories (1,000-1,500 words) and photo essays; and $300 for research-based articles and investigative reportage (1,500-2,000 words). For details, refer to their post and call for pitches.
Deadline: May 11th, 2025
Tuesday, October 22nd 2024
The Sask Dispatch is a Saskatchewan-focused news publication by Briarpatch Magazine. They’re seeking Sask focused pitches for their unthemed March/April issue. They’re especially interested in “reporting on rural Sask, arts and culture, and grassroots activism.” They pay $100 for profiles, short essays, and reviews (less than 1,000 words); $200 for feature stories (1,000-1,500 words) and photo essays; and $300 for research-based articles and investigative reportage (1,500-2,000 words). For more details, refer to their post and call for pitches.
Deadline: November 10th, 2024
Tuesday, August 20th 2024
The Sask Dispatch is a Saskatchewan-focused news publication by Briarpatch Magazine. They’re seeking pitches for their unthemed January/February 2025 issue. They pay $100 for profiles, short essays, and reviews (less than 1,000 words); $200 for feature stories (1,000-1,500 words) and photo essays; and $300 for research-based articles and investigative reportage (1,500-2,000 words). For more details, refer to their post and call for pitches.
Deadline: September 8th, 2024
Tuesday, July 16th 2024
The Sask Dispatch is a Saskatchewan-focused news publication by Briarpatch Magazine. They’re looking specifically for pitches related to the provincial election in October, but are also open to pitches about arts/culture, the environment, harm reduction, and more. They pay $100 for profiles, short essays, and reviews (less than 1,000 words); $200 for feature stories (1,000-1,500 words) and photo essays; and $300 for research-based articles and investigative reportage (1,500-2,000 words). Send your pitches to amielle@briarpatchmagazine.com. For details, refer to their post and this page.
Tuesday, September 26th 2023
The Sask Dispatch is a Saskatchewan-focused news publication by Briarpatch Magazine. If you have a Saskatchewan-focused pitch or are interested in working on a story, then get in touch with their editor at tannara@briarpatchmagazine.com. As per their call for pitches (published in Dec 2022), they pay $100 for profiles, short essays, and reviews (less than 1,000 words); $200 for feature stories (1,000-1,500 words) and photo essays; and $300 for research-based articles and investigative reportage (1,500-2,000 words). For details, refer to their editor’s post.
Thursday, December 22nd 2022
The Sask Dispatch is a
Saskatchewan-focused news publication by Briarpatch Magazine. They are
accepting pitches for their unthemed May/June issue. They publish “articles
about Saskatchewan on a range of topics, including provincial and municipal
elections, grassroots activism, Indigenous rights, arts and culture, economic
justice, ecology, gender equity, harm reduction, and more.” They pay $100 for
profiles, short essays, and reviews (less than 1,000 words); $200 for feature
stories (1,000-1,500 words) and photo essays; and $300 for research-based
articles and investigative reportage (1,500-2,000 words). To learn more, read
their tweet
and call
for pitches.
Deadline: January 4th, 2023
Sunday, April 18th 2021
The Sask Dispatch is a Saskatchewan-focused
news publication by Briarpatch Magazine. They have tweeted, “Sask Dispatch is
looking for pitches for solutions journalism stories! There's a lot of despair
in the news these days. We want to hear about people who are doing the work to
turn things around.” They pay $300 for feature stories (usually under 2,000
words) and $600 for research-based articles and investigative reporting (usually
over 2,000 words). To learn more, refer to their Tweet
and this page.
Deadline: May 9th, 2021