Tuesday, January 3rd 2023
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 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 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 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 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 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 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 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 “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 “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
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, 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
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.