News & Pitch Calls from Sliced

Tuesday, January 3rd 2023

Sliced is Seeking a British Columbia-Based Freelance Writer

Sliced is a monthly food journalism magazine by Fed (a food startup that offers nutrition-focused meals for specialized diets). They are looking for a British Columbia-based freelance writer to report 1 story/month on food and agriculture in BC. They will pay $350. They aim to commission by Jan 11. If interested, email editor@fedfedfed.com. Read their Twitter thread here. Get a sense of their style and interests here.

Tuesday, December 13th 2022

Sliced is Looking for Pitches

Sliced is a monthly food journalism magazine by Fed (a food startup that offers nutrition-focused meals for specialized diets). They are seeking pitches on the question, "Sugar: What are you so afraid of?" Rate is CD$0.15/word for around 1,200 words. If interested, email your pitches to editor@fedfedfed.com. To read their Twitter thread, click here. To read their previous issues, click here.

Deadline: December 15th, 2022

Tuesday, November 29th 2022

Sliced is Inviting Pitches for Mind and Sugar Issues

Sliced is a monthly food journalism magazine by Fed (a food startup that offers nutrition-focused meals for specialized diets). They are inviting pitches for their Mind and Sugar issues. They will commission their Mind issue first, so send your pitches as soon as possible to editor@fedfedfed.com. Rate is CD$0.15/word for around 1,200 words. To read their Twitter thread, click here. To read their previous issues, click here.

Sunday, June 19th 2022

Sliced is Seeking Pitches for 'Insect and Fast Food' Issues

Sliced is a monthly food journalism magazine by Fed (a food startup that offers nutrition-focused meals for specialized diets). They are inviting pitches for their Insect and Fast Food issues. They pay CD$0.15/word for around 1,200 words. If interested, send your pitches and samples to editor@fedfedfed.com. Read their Twitter thread here and their previous issues here.

Tuesday, April 19th 2022

Sliced wants pitches for Scandal issue

Sliced is a nutrition magazine from Fed. They are (still) looking for pitches, and are particularly keen to read pitches for their Scandal issue. See the Twitter thread here. “Scandal: Abuse, exploitation, neglect by corporations and governments; false substitution or lying about ingredients; moral panic and mass hysteria, when fears over the perceived dangers of something are overstated, inflated or made up ... ... the scandals you don’t see; the function of gossip and scandal in kitchen industry discourse; making food and agriculture more accountable; the future of scandal — what do we accept today that food and agricultural ethics of the future won’t?; The bizarre, silly and the weird”. Pay is CAD0.15/word up to 1,200 words. Their initial callout also wanted pitches for the Water theme.


Friday, April 15th 2022

Sliced is Accepting Pitches for Two Issues

Sliced is a monthly food journalism magazine by Fed (a food startup that offers nutrition-focused meals for specialized diets). They are accepting pitches for their 10th and 11th issues: “Water” and “Scandal.” For the “Water” issue, they are looking for pitches about “farmers and well rights; droughts; geopolitics of freshwater access; foods that consume too much water in their production; the viability of future alternative water sources…” For the “Scandal” issue, they are seeking pitches about “abuse, exploitation, neglect by corporations and governments; false substitution or lying about ingredients; moral panic and mass hysteria, when fears over the perceived dangers of something are overstated, inflated or made up…” They pay CD$0.15/word for around 1,200 words. Email your pitches to editor@fedfedfed.com. To read their Twitter thread, click here. To read their previous issues, click here.

Sunday, March 13th 2022

Sliced is Looking for Pitches on Textile

Sliced is a food and agriculture magazine. They are seeking pitches for their ninth issue— textiles. Some of the themes they are particularly interested in are: “smart / interactive fabrics; agro textiles and geo textiles; regenerative farming for the textile industry; how food / farm waste can be used in the fashion industry; bioplastics; silk production; indigo farming; whether sustainable alternatives will disrupt or reproduce exploitation in textiles and the fashion industry.” They pay CD$0.15/word for around 1,200 words. They welcome international and new writers. If interested, email editor@fedfedfed.com. There is no deadline for this issue. To read their Twitter thread, click here. To read their previous issues, click here.

Saturday, January 1st 2022

Sliced is Looking for Pitches

Sliced is a monthly food journalism magazine by Fed (a food startup that offers nutrition-focused meals for specialized diets). They are accepting pitches for their eighth issue. The theme is Plastics. They are particularly keen to see pitches on: “how a circular economy would eliminate food waste and needless plastic packaging; plastic and microplastics seeping into and poisoning agriculture.” Rate is CD$0.15/word for around 1,200 words. Pitches should be sent to editor@fedfedfed.com. Read their Twitter thread here and their previous issues here.

Sunday, December 12th 2021

Fed is Seeking Pitches for Issue #7 which is themed Sport

Fed is “a food startup that designs, prepares, and delivers nutrition-focused meals for specialized diets.” They are accepting pitches for issue #7 of their food journalism magazine, Sliced. The issue is themed Sport. Some of the themes they are particularly interested in are:

“Food, sports science, and optimizing performance; developments in sports nutrition, or food and sport, that have merged into everyday life.”

“Nutrition and supplements; athletes and players engaging with food in unusual ways to get the most out of it; sports where foods are inextricably linked to the playing of the game; athletes/players promoting and using dubious nutritional products and practices.”

“Groundskeepers adapting to the climate crisis, droughts, and flooding, with insights/lessons for agriculture; foods and food technology developed specifically for consumption when watching sport.”

They pay CD$0.15/word for around 1,200 words. To read their Twitter thread, click here. To read their previous issues, click here.

Sunday, October 17th 2021

Fed is Seeking Pitches for its Food Journalism Magazine

Fed is “a food startup that designs, prepares, and delivers nutrition-focused meals for specialized diets.” They are accepting pitches for issue # 6 of their food journalism magazine Sliced. The theme for the issue is War and Conflict. They will pay CD$0.15/word for around 1,200 words. They are open to international submissions. If interested, contact editor@fedfedfed.com. Read their Twitter thread here and their previous issue here.

Friday, October 15th 2021

Sliced wants pitches on ‘War and Conflict’ theme

Fed wants pitches for its food journalism magazine, Sliced; the theme is War and Conflict. Pay is CAD0.15/word for pieces up to 1,200 words. Details here (Twitter thread).


Sunday, September 12th 2021

Sliced is open for pitches on ‘Fungus’ theme

Sliced, the Canadian food journalism magazine, is looking for pitches around the ‘Fungus’ theme for their fifth issue. They pay CAD0.15/word for stories of around 1,200 words. They want to commission as soon as possible, and aim for the final drafts to be done by 24th September. Details in the Twitter thread here.

Deadline: 24th September 2021 for final drafts


Friday, June 11th 2021

Sliced wants pitches on Space theme

This is a new Canadian magazine about food journalism. They want pitches on the Space theme for their third issue. They welcome international submissions, as well as pitches from non-food writers – tech, culture, environmental, political, agricultural, and more are encouraged. Also, “Sliced's first issue will go live in the middle of June. We want to produce serious, timeless writing that interrogates food. We’re interested in everything from its history and culture to nutrition, scientific innovations, production, agriculture, and more.” Pay is CAD0.15/word for 1,200 words. Details in the editor’s Twitter thread here.