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Editorial Submissions

Core Magazines accepts creative submissions and cultural stories from writers, photographers, and creators worldwide. Submit your story on arts, music, lifestyle, travel, or community initiatives and share your perspective with our engaged audience.

Why contribute editorial content?

Share your perspective with a culture-focused audience
Build your portfolio and experience in publishing
Network with other artists and creators
Help shape the cultural conversation

How to send an article to Core Magazines

How to pitch a story to Core Magazines
Content Categories
Core Editorial Calendar
Core Music Events
How do I know when my story is published?
Does my work have to be original content?
Do you pay for articles?
Do you publish press releases?
How long should my article be?
What format should my submission be in?

Submission Form

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Pitch an article or multimedia story idea

Introduce yourself. Include your name and email address.
Describe your idea. Keep it short (about 100 words) and tell us why our audience will want to read or see it. It could be interesting, unique, inspirational, educational, funny, viral, timely, an adventure, a good deed, or highlight a person, place, or event.
Send us your pitch. Use the Submission Form, our preferred method. Email may be used for questions and follow-up.
Submit your completed work. Once approved, send your story, images, or media files through the Submission Form.
You can skip the proposal if you want.

What should I write about?

Core Magazines welcomes articles on diverse topics related to culture – pop, counter, social, ethnic – from around the world.

We like ideas that create change, in our hearts, our minds and in the world around us. We like stories about unique experiences, adventures, far-off travel, and nearby escapes. We like to travel with you off-the-beaten-path to visit places that are rarely seen or known until we get to know them through your eyes.

Or, simply tell us what you had to overcome to get where you are today. How did you survive? How did you remove the roadblocks on your path to entrepreneurship? Share your steps to success to inspire others.

Humour and positivity is a great way to approach stories too. Writing a few sentences about the things your kid says could be funny, but writing about all the parents on social media who think their kids are comedic geniuses is a thousand words funnier. I’m always willing to discuss your ideas and help you shape your story.

We get excited about local trends, community action, interaction, connection, counter-culture, sub-cultures, the practice of smaller groups of people in worlds that are not open to everyone, or off-the-charts, pervasive, popular movements that will affect a society for generations to come. Stories that excite us examine how we express our cultural identity through the arts, how culture adapts to technology, why we choose to highlight or bury certain aspects of our common culture, and why we behave so predictably in groups — all the things that affect our identity and how we interact with each other.

Express yourself in words, audio, photos, comics, or illustrations. We accept long and short form stories and articles. News, features, reviews, opinion pieces as well as creative works of art (short stories and poetry) are all welcome.

Get to know us in the About section or visit our Media Kit.

Editorial Content Categories

CoreLife – (Lifestyle, wellness, and profiles of unique people, includes — Health features)
Crunchy – (Food)
Culture – (Arts and culture, dance, theatre, ethnic, high and low)
Tech – (Technology, innovation)
Lit – (Books, literature)
Music / Core Music Events – (Popular genres, emerging sounds, ethnic)
News – (News has been integrated into Culture and other sections.)
Pandora’s Box – (Pandora’s Box-Hot topics, contentious, debatable issues has been integrated in other categories.)
Peaches – (Ask Peaches. Advice in honour of Peaches, the nickname of the founder’s mother, who passed away when she was a teenager. Have a dilemma? Ask Peaches. We go to the pros to get you an answer.)
Sports / Games – (Global recreational pastimes)
Wanderlust – (Travel – connect with the world, local hotspots)
Wonderland – (Unimaginable, other-worldly, bizarre, larger-than-life)

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How often is Core Magazines published?

Core Magazines is published monthly. Stories can be published at any time throughout the month. Send us your story at least two weeks in advance each month. Check the editorial calendar for upcoming topics.

How long should my article be?

An article can be 300 words long. An average article is about 500-700 words with the who, what, where, when, why, and how the topic impacts some aspect of life, with explanations, descriptions, and comparisons. One thousand word articles are great to while away a Sunday afternoon, or break them down into a series of stories.

Does my work have to be original content?

All submissions must be original and owned by you. If your work has been submitted or published elsewhere, please let us know. We encourage you to provide a slightly different version for Core Magazines. Original work is more interesting to our audience, performs better on search engines, and helps avoid copyright infringement and plagiarism. We value creativity and originality. Content that is fresh and unique makes the biggest impact.

Will you accept my article if I’ve never written anything before?

We’ve published articles written by first-time writers as well as published authors, professors, pre-college students, artists, choreographers, scientists, environmentalists, musicians, entertainment journalists, DJs, and editorials written by company directors from countries around the world. So, yeah, we might.

My articles are like posts, is that something you would publish?

I take the time to help writers develop and shape their stories by giving them feedback so they can bring their ideas to life.

What do you change when you edit an article?

As editor, I review content for accuracy, style and objectivity. I try to keep the original voice of the author, make recommendations, ask questions from a reader’s perspective, or point out areas that could be developed further. I help writers make their own decisions about their work.

Do I still own my content if I submit it to Core?

Yes. When you submit content to us, you give us permission to use the content but you still own the rights to your work.

Where will my work appear?

When you send us your work, you are giving Core Magazines permission to use it on CoreMagazines.com, and sometimes on related properties such as social media platforms, mostly for promotion of the content in the magazine. Some companies have their own set of rules that govern the use of their content, which we abide by on a case-by-case basis.

How do I know when my story is published?

When your work is published on CoreMagazines.com we will notify you. But, you can find out faster. Be the first to know by signing up for Core article alerts — a free feature available to all our subscribers.

Do you pay for articles?

We look forward to the day when we can pay for stories. At the moment we do exchanges for access to concert venues, festivals, conferences, museums, galleries, cinemas, readings, restaurants, openings, showcases, product testing, and we are able to line up some spectacular interviews for our reporters.

Some people will contribute as a way to keep doing what they love, in addition to their other work. Writers, photographers, videographers, designers, illustrators get to sharpen their storytelling skills, develop content for their portfolios, learn the publishing process, network, connect with other artists and shape the culture they’re a part of.

Do you publish press releases?

Core Magazines partners with Cision (PR Newswire, media services) to share selected culture news stories through our media feed. We also welcome releases and announcements sent directly to us from artists, organizations, and publicists.

You can reach our audience directly in three ways:

an article or editorial – for cultural features, interviews, or reviews
a Core Branded Story – for paid promotional features or announcements published on our site
a Placement – for advertising, sponsorship, or mixed format content promoted across our platforms

Note: Cision content appears on Core Magazines through an automated feed. To ensure your story appears as a featured article or promoted placement, please submit it directly to Core Magazines.

learn more about placements

Do you have someone in my city to review my restaurant?

Foodie alert! I get requests for all sorts of openings in many countries or different cities that I can’t always get to. Let me know if you love trying different types of cuisine. We have a section called Crunchy that may interest you. Tell us if you’d like to write for us.

Can you come to my event on the weekend?

“You mean tomorrow?”
I love getting invitations and sometimes I show up even when it’s on very short notice. But, I’m hoping that the number of contributors will grow so that we can publish more stories about interesting cultural events in all the cities where our readers are across the globe.

What style do you use?

We follow Canadian Press (CP) style, Caps and Spelling, and the Oxford Dictionary for spelling and word usage. At times, we apply Core Magazines’ house style for specific editorial purposes.

What format should my submission be in?

Content format: text, image, video, and audio

Image Files

Upload your images through the Submission Form along with your article.

What size should my image be?

You don’t need to include an image with your article, but if you do, please follow these guidelines to keep your files web-friendly and easy to upload.

Regular images

Vertical format: 400 px wide
Horizontal format: 500 px wide
Resolution: 72 dpi
File size: under 200 KB

If your image is too large, use a free tool such as picresize.com or tinypng.com to reduce it.
Upload your image, set the width to 400 px (vertical) or 500 px (horizontal), then download the optimized version.

Featured images

Orientation: horizontal (appears across the top of the article)
Size: 1200 × 400 px
Resolution: 72 dpi
Max file size: 250 KB

Note: The top portion of featured images may be partially covered (see example: Limitless article) by the title or overlay.

Accepted image formats: .jpg, .jpeg, .png

High-resolution images (up to 300 dpi) may be resized or optimized for digital use.

Text Files

Paste your article into the text area of the Submission Form or upload it as a file attachment. Upload your image files along with your article.

We accept the following text file formats:

.doc, .docx (Microsoft Word)
.pdf (Adobe Acrobat)
.rtf (Rich Text Format)
.txt (Plain Text — no special formatting)

Formatting tips:

No special layout or styling is required. You may paste your text directly into the submission form.
Write out full URLs (e.g., https://coremagazines.com) — do not embed links.