Friday, October 24th 2025
C Magazine: Indigenous Art Writing Award
C Magazine is Canada-based and publishes work on art. This prize is open to Indigenous writers all over the world, for art writing. “We’re excited to launch the 4th annual Indigenous Art Writing Award, an initiative created to support, compensate, and platform three standout individuals who are advancing critical and creative thought about Indigenous contemporary art.
Indigenous writers are invited to submit a single non-fiction text about an artist, project, exhibition, performance, event, initiative, theme, or other art-adjacent subject. Suggested length for submissions is between 1,000-2,000 words.
The winner will receive $1,500 CAD; editorial support to prepare their article for publication in a future issue of C Magazine and to be shared across ICCA’s platforms; and a two-year C subscription. Two runners-up will receive $1,000 CAD; an open invitation to develop a pitch for a different text to be published in C Magazine; and a two-year subscription. All participants can request feedback on their submitted work, and will receive a one-year subscription.
Applicants must identify as an Indigenous person. Given the resonances of Indigenous sovereignty and colonial realities across the globe, there are no geographical restrictions, though for the context of where we are located, we strongly encourage those based in Canada to apply. Submissions should primarily be in English, but may include non-English words or phrases. For submissions entirely in another language, we kindly ask for translations.”
Value: CAD1,500; CAD1,000 for two runners-up
Deadline: 24 November 2025
Open for: Indigenous writers
Details here.
(See all of C Magazine’s calls and guidelines here.)
Deadline: November 24th, 2025
Tuesday, October 25th 2022
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
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 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 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
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 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