C Magazine

C Magazine is a quarterly published contemporary art and criticism periodical based in Toronto, Canada. Each issue of the magazine has a theme. They welcome “writing on contemporary art and culture that is lively and rigorously engaged with current ideas and debates.” They accept pitches for reviews (800 to 1,000 words), columns (800 to 1,000 words), and feature essays, cultural analysis, and interviews (1,200 to 3,500 words). According to their contributors guidelines, they pay between 35 to 45 cents per word. For reviews they pay a flat rate of $410 for print, and $210 for online.

News & Pitch Calls from C Magazine

Tuesday, October 25th 2022

C Magazine is Accepting Pitches for "Gossip" Issue

C Magazine is a Canada-based contemporary art and criticism periodical. They are accepting pitches for their issue C154 "Gossip" (Spring 2023). Pitches for thematic features, artist projects, and columns will be accepted until December 1, 2022. Review pitches will be accepted on a rolling basis. Rates are $360 for print reviews (800 to 1,000 words) and $175 for online reviews (325 to 375 words). Pitches should be sent to pitch@cmagazine.com. To learn more, refer to their Tweet, call for pitches, and submission and writer’s guidelines.

Deadline: December 1st, 2022

Friday, April 16th 2021

C Magazine wants submissions on ‘Maps’ theme

This magazine is interested in writing that addresses Canadian art. They look at art and its various contexts, and at trends and emerging perspectives through a mix of editorials, columns, in-depth essays, interviews, artist projects and reviews. They accept pitches for features, artist projects, reviews, and columns. They are reading pitches for features and reviews for their Autumn 2021 issue, and the theme is Maps: “This issue asks: What counts as a map? What do maps do? How can we challenge our assumptions of what they’re for and how they operate? How have maps been used to colonize, divide, and commodify, and how are they being used to unravel such empires? How are artists involved in counter-cartography? ...  How do maps index (or fail to) the passage of time—changes of seasons, inhabitants, ownership, use? How do maps cultivate space for spontaneity, play, and ephemerality? How are maps used to tell stories, and how are stories used to make maps?” See their extensive guidelines for further details. Pay is at least CAD0.35/word, and the pitch deadline is 1 May 2021. Details here.

Pitch deadline: 1 May 2021

Tuesday, March 16th 2021

C Magazine is Accepting Pitches for their Maps Issue

C Magazine is a Canada-based contemporary art and criticism periodical. They are accepting pitches for features (1,200-3,500 words), columns, and reviews (800-1,000 words) for their issue C150 "Maps" (Autumn 2021). Pay is at least $0.35 per word. For more information, refer to their Tweet, call for pitches, and submission and writer’s guidelines.

Deadline: May 1st, 2021

Thursday, December 31st 2020

C Magazine is Seeking Pitches for Summer 2021 Issue

C Magazine is a Canada-based contemporary art and criticism periodical. They are accepting pitches for features (1,200-3,500 words), columns, and reviews (800-1,000 words) for their issue 149 “Community” (Summer 2021). They pay at least 35 cents per word. Pitches should be sent to editor@cmagazine.com. For details, refer to their Tweet and call for pitches.

Deadline: January 31st, 2021

Thursday, September 17th 2020

C Magazine is reading for Winter/Spring 2021 issue

This magazine is interested in writing that addresses Canadian art. It looks at art and its various contexts, and at trends and emerging perspectives through a mix of editorials, columns, in-depth essays, interviews, artist projects and reviews. They accept pitches for features (1,200-3,500 words), artist projects, reviews (800-1,000 words), and columns. They are reading pitches for features and reviews for their open Winter/Spring 2021 issue, and they suggest these themes (see guidelines for extensive details): “How does uncertainty (re)model our priorities? How do new demands for plasticity in all our activities fundamentally challenge the idea of planning, of working, of art-making? How has the widespread slackening of the capitalist clock transformed our understandings of what we’re doing and what’s being done to us? How has this enforced chapter of pause allowed us to see the trouble, wealth, and wonder that stirs behind frantic facades? How have recent events forced us to reconsider the ages-old tension between art and politics?” Feature, artist project, and column pitches are due 30 September; review pitches are due 10 October 2020. Details here.   

30 September; 10 October 2020


Sunday, September 13th 2020

C Magazine is Accepting Pitches for C148 (Winter/Spring 2021)

C Magazine is a Canada-based contemporary art and criticism periodical. They are accepting pitches for C148 (Winter/Spring 2021). According to payment reports, they pay up to $0.23 per word. The deadline for submission of feature, artist project, and column pitches is September 30, 2020. Send your pitches to editor@cmagazine.com. To learn more, refer to this Tweet and this page.

Deadline: September 30th, 2020