We are coming back from our fallow period and want to check in. HOW ARE YA? With the current state of the world, our communities and selves need a little extra care. We want this issue to be about how we look after each other and ourselves through food. The check ins with friends over dinner, bringing some food over to your elderly neighbour, organizing a bake sale for a cause you care about, making a special dish to nourish our bodies. What are the ways you show care through food?
As a reminder, we are looking for essays, interviews, poems, illustrations, photography and we always love to see a piece accompanied by a recipe!
Hungry is now accepting pitches and submissions for
Issue 07: “Funeral Foods”
This issue opens up space for feelings and thoughts around grief and food. The recipes lost when a loved one passes away, the dishes we can no longer indulge in after a break up, connections to culture lost, the community recipes for feeding many people at a funeral, the grief we feel when we see the impacts of climate change on traditional foodways. In our grief we also celebrate what was, cooking our ancestors’ favourite meals, finding connection at your local restaurant, and finding an old recipe book.
Payment: All contributors whose work is selected will be paid $50 upon publication of the issue.
Questions: We welcome your questions, send them to: [email protected].
Page size: 5 x 8 inches (or 8.5 x 11 spread), ~300 words/page.
Colour: The zine will be risograph printed in 2 colours– Blue (#0078bf) and Black (#000000).
Submission Format:
Illustrations and Photos:
Please note that all art will be printed in two tones and we ask that you take this into consideration when choosing which artwork to submit to us.
Please keep separate layers for each ink colour as you prepare your artwork, and keep in mind that final works need to be submitted as .psd or .ai files (if your piece is accepted). If your piece is accepted, we will need a separated file from you, meaning each colour needs to be in a separate layer, no two colours in one layer, and no flat jpeg or pdf files. psd or ai files are best.
For illustrations that are made in vector format (Adobe Illustrator or any other software), please keep them in whatever file format they are in, and do not import it to Photoshop. Photoshop rasterizes vector files, and the quality degrades a bit.
We (and the folks at Yolkless Press) can help with file set-up, and technical specifications, around colours and incorporating drawings. Just ask us if you have any questions!
Text: Please submit a Google document (preferred) or Word document.
Have a read through our general submission guidelines here before submitting, (it will help you, and help us)!
This issue is about heat and spice, romance, love, sex, and pleasure. Like a steamy bowl of laksa noodle soup, this issue might make you sweat, might make your tongue tingle like a mouthful of Sichuan peppercorns, but that’s part of the experience, right? Issue 06: Hot & Spicy is an homage to the sensual, erotic, tantalizing side of food. The pleasure of nourishing our bodies. We want your foodie erotica/romance writing. Your tips on organizing your spice cupboard. Your interview with a chilli farmer. Maybe it’s about your favourite restaurant to take a date to. A how-to guide on how to satiate your appetite. Your hot sauce recipe. Or perhaps a poem about that night with your partner where you thought it would be a good idea to invite some snacks into the bedroom.
Turn the lights down low and dig into this issue of food and pleasure.
Pitch deadline: March 15, 2023
Submission deadline: April 3 , 2023
Issue launch: June 2023
Payment: All contributors whose work is selected will be paid $50 upon publication of the issue.
Submit pitches and final submissions through our google form
Please note at this time we are only accepting previously unpublished submissions from authors located in so-called Canada.
Poetry: Please submit a maximum of three poems as a Google doc or Word doc.
Fiction and Nonfiction: Please submit a maximum of 1000 words as a Google doc or Word doc. Writing can include but is not limited to short stories, essays, interviews, and recipes.
Visual art and photography: Please send up to three high-resolution images. We accept submissions in colour. Please be aware that the zine will be printed on a risograph press. If you have questions about setting up your file for riso-printing, please contact us. Tips: We strongly encourage artists to keep separate layers for each ink colour as you prepare your artwork, and to submit final works as .psd or .ai files (if your piece is accepted). We (and the folks at Yolkless Press) can help with file set-up, and technical specifications, around colours and incorporating drawings. Just ask!
Original reporting, investigative articles, interviews, and profiles
Pitch Guidelines
*Pitch us your idea if you prefer not to create something unless you know that we will be pursuing your piece.
Pitches should be 500 words or less.
Outline the story you want to tell or piece of art you want to create, why it matters here and now, what perspective you will bring to it, and why you think this story is a fit for Hungry.
Include your bio and links to previously published work or portfolios if you have them (no worries if you don’t, we are interested in work by emerging creators too!).
We will be in touch by March 22, 2023 if we would like to pursue your piece.
MALL FOOD will be a collaborative zine about food culture at West Edmonton Mall, assembled over the course of the Mitchell Art Gallery’s exhibition: THE MALL.
Curated by the Hungry Zine team, featuring cover art by Michelle Campos Castillo, and risograph printed by Yolkless Press, the zine will be launched at the Mitchell Art Gallery at the close of the exhibition (March 30). The zine will be (loosely) organized into four phases.
What comes to mind when you think about food at West Edmonton Mall? Food court culture? Nachos at the waterpark? The timelessness of Orange Julius? Boba? Nightlife on Bourbon Street? Food court lemon-chicken balls? The first time you tried Mexican food (ahem, Taco Time). We want your writing and art about food at West Edmonton Mall (the Mall), and all that it brings up for you – good times, capitalism and consumption, fast food, friends and family, nostalgia, local businesses, eating in public/private spaces, the 80s/90s/the millenium…the sky screamer’s the limit.
Submission deadline: January 24, 2023
Issue launch: March 30, 2023
Payment: All contributors whose work is selected will be paid $75 upon publication of the issue.
Please note at this time we are only accepting previously unpublished submissions from authors located in so-called Canada.
Poetry: Please submit a maximum of three poems as a Google doc or Word doc.
Fiction and Nonfiction: Please submit a maximum of 1000 words as a Google doc or Word doc. Writing can include but is not limited to short stories, essays, interviews, and recipes.
Visual art and photography: Please send up to three high-resolution images. We accept submissions in colour. Please be aware that the zine will be printed on a risograph press. If you have questions about setting up your file for riso-printing, please contact us.
Types of content we are interested in:
Personal essays, short stories, poetry, recipes
Illustrations, photography, comics
Original reporting, investigative articles, interviews, and profiles
Hungry is now accepting submissions for Issue 05: “Land + Water”.
The conversation about food is impossible without a conversation about land and water. From growing food, harvesting, foraging, fishing and hunting, the ways we interact with the environment shape our food systems. Stolen land and land back, climate change, recreational activities, food, agriculture, and cultural practices all impact our food.
We want to hear about your meditations on your connection to land and water and food – be they creative, weird, warm, or complicated. Share your food stories that are shaped by your times on the land and water, and the foods that shape your relationship to the land and water.
Colour Details: This issue will be printed in: Mint PANTONE 324 U (#82d8d5) and Blue PANTONE 3005 U#0078bf).
We enjoy art and writing that makes us laugh, makes us cry, makes us question. We enjoy writing that is candid, raw, critical, irreverent, thoughtful, loving. We want stories that challenge, critique, inspire, that connect the personal to the political, and the individual to community. We want to elevate and amplify alternative and radical ways of imagining just food systems. We want your writing and art if you engage with food in any way – if you eat, make, grow, think about food – whether you are involved in the food industry, in agriculture, in community food work, in feeding yourself and others.
Types of content we are interested in:
Original reporting/investigative articles
Interviews and profiles
Recipes
Poetry, personal essays, fiction
Illustrations
And more! Pitch an idea to us!
*Submission Guidelines*
Pitches and submissions can be submitted through our google form here. Questions can be sent to our email at [email protected].
Pitches (by September 15, 2022):
*Pitch us your idea if you prefer not to create something unless you know that we will be pursuing your piece.
Pitches should be 500 words or less.
Outline the story you want to tell or piece of art you want to create, why it matters here and now, what perspective you will bring to it, and why you think this story is a fit for Hungry.
Include your bio and links to previously published work or portfolios if you have them (no worries if you don’t, we are interested in work by emerging creators too!).
We will be in touch by April 10, 2022 if we would like to pursue your piece.
Submissions (Deadline is September 30, 2022):
Poetry: Please submit a maximum of three poems as a Google doc or Word doc.
Fiction and Nonfiction: Please submit a maximum of 1000 words as a Google doc or Word doc. Writing can include but not limited to short stories, essays, interviews, and recipes.
Visual art and photography: Please send up to three high-resolution images. We accept submissions in colour (see details on colours below). Please be aware that Hungry will be printed on a risograph press. If you have questions about setting up your file for riso-printing, please contact us.
*Please include your name on all files.
**Please note at this time we are only accepting previously unpublished submissions from authors located in so-called Canada.
*About Submitting to Hungry*
Based on feedback we heard from contributors, this issue we will be accepting a combination of pitches as well as completed submissions. The deadline for pitches is September 15, 2022 and the final deadline for submissions is September 30, 2022 .
We want to respect you and your work by providing a reasonable response time. We are a tiny team with limited capacity (juggling jobs, school and a new baby), so you will hear from us only if we have selected your piece for publication in Issue 05: Land + Water. You can expect to hear back from us about your piece(s) by the end of October 7th. If you do not hear from us by October 7th, that means we haven’t been able to include your piece in this issue. Please do share more of your work for future issues!
All contributors whose work is selected will be paid $50 upon publication of Issue 05.
We prioritize the work of creators whose voices are missing in food media. We make this happen with an intentional selection process and a committed editorial team. If you would like to learn more about our values and how your submission might align, please read more at https://www.hungryzine.com/about/.
Hungry is now accepting submissions for Issue 03: “Restaurants”.
During the pandemic we’ve seen some of our favourite restaurants close, we’ve seen the impacts of precarious work on food industry folks, and we’ve had to rethink our relationships with restaurants. We came to this theme thinking about how much of our food experience is shaped by restaurants. Whether it’s working in them, spending special occasions celebrating in them, or just running for a quick grab and go at our local favourite shop.
Take us beyond the restaurant review or awards list! We want to hear about your favourite restaurants, or the ones you hate, the ones that were closed, and the ones that were replaced, and the people and stories behind them. We want to hear about the experiences from people working in the restaurant industry, or a special moment that you experienced in a restaurant, or your favourite dish.
We enjoy art and writing that makes us laugh, makes us cry, makes us question. We enjoy writing that is candid, raw, critical, irreverent, thoughtful, loving. We want stories that challenge, critique, inspire, that connect the personal to the political, and the individual to community. We want to elevate and amplify alternative and radical ways of imagining just food systems. We want your writing and art if you engage with food in any way – if you eat, make, grow, think about food – whether you are involved in the food industry, in agriculture, in community food work, in feeding yourself and others.
Types of content we are interested in:
Original reporting/investigative articles
Interviews and profiles
Recipes
Poetry, personal essays, fiction
Illustrations
And more! Pitch an idea to us!
*Submission Guidelines*
Pitches and submissions can be submitted through our google form here. Questions can be sent to our email at [email protected].
Pitches (by April 3, 2022):
*Pitch us your idea if you prefer not to create something unless you know that we will be pursuing your piece.
Pitches should be 500 words or less.
Outline the story you want to tell or piece of art you want to create, why it matters here and now, what perspective you will bring to it, and why you think this story is a fit for Hungry.
Include your bio and links to previously published work or portfolios if you have them (no worries if you don’t, we are interested in work by emerging creators too!).
We will be in touch by April 10, 2022 if we would like to pursue your piece.
Submissions (Deadline is May 1st, 2022):
Poetry: Please submit a maximum of three poems as a Google doc or Word doc.
Fiction and Nonfiction: Please submit a maximum of 1000 words as a Google doc or Word doc. Writing can include but not limited to short stories, essays, interviews, and recipes.
Visual art and photography: Please send up to three high-resolution images. We accept submissions in colour (see details on colours below). Please be aware that Hungry will be printed on a risograph press. If you have questions about setting up your file for riso-printing, please contact us.
*Please include your name on all files.
**Please note at this time we are only accepting previously unpublished submissions from authors located in so-called Canada.
*About Submitting to Hungry*
Based on feedback we heard from contributors, this issue we will be accepting a combination of pitches as well as completed submissions. The deadline for pitches is April 3, 2022 and the final deadline for submissions is May 1, 2022 .
We want to respect you and your work by providing a reasonable response time. We are a tiny team with limited capacity (juggling jobs, school and a new baby), so you will hear from us only if we have selected your piece for publication in Issue 03: Restaurants. You can expect to hear back from us about your piece(s) by the end of May 2022. If you do not hear from us by the end of May, that means we haven’t been able to include your piece in this issue. Please do share more of your work for future issues!
All contributors whose work is selected will be paid $50 upon publication of Issue 03.
We prioritize the work of creators whose voices are missing in food media. We make this happen with an intentional selection process and a committed editorial team. If you would like to learn more about our values and how your submission might align, please read more at https://www.hungryzine.com/about/.
Hungry is now accepting submissions for Issue 02: “It’s Complicated”.
We came to this theme thinking about the complexities of our relationships to food. Sometimes we hate our home cooking, recipes don’t always go as planned, and our relationship to food can be difficult.
We want to hear about the complicated parts of your food relationships – the messy, the fraught, the hilarious, the unexpected, the problematic.
We enjoy art and writing that makes us laugh, makes us cry, makes us question. We enjoy writing that is candid, raw, critical, irreverent, thoughtful, loving. We want stories that challenge, critique, inspire, that connect the personal to the political, and the individual to community. We want to elevate and amplify alternative and radical ways of imagining just food systems. We want your writing and art if you engage with food in any way – if you eat, make, grow, think about food – whether you are involved in the food industry, in agriculture, in community food work, in feeding yourself and others.
Types of content we are interested in:
Original reporting/investigative articles
Interviews and profiles
Recipes
Poetry, personal essays, fiction
Illustrations
And more! Pitch an idea to us!
*Submission Guidelines*
Pitches can be sent to our email at [email protected] while final submissions are to be sent through our google form here.
Pitches (by November 19, 2021):
*Pitch us your idea if you prefer not to create something unless you know that we will be pursuing your piece.
Pitches should be 500 words or less.
Outline the story you want to tell or piece of art you want to create, why it matters here and now, what perspective you will bring to it, and why you think this story is a fit for Hungry.
Include your bio and links to previously published work or portfolios if you have them (no worries if you don’t, we are interested in work by emerging creators too!).
We will be in touch by December 19, 2021 if we would like to pursue your piece.
Submissions (Deadline is December 19, 2021):
Poetry: Please submit a maximum of three poems as a Google doc or Word doc.
Fiction and Nonfiction: Please submit a maximum of 1000 words as a Google doc or Word doc. Writing can include but not limited to short stories, essays, interviews, and recipes.
Visual art and photography: Please send up to three high-resolution images. We accept submissions in colour (see details on colours below). Please be aware that Hungry will be printed on a risograph press. If you have questions about setting up your file for riso-printing, please contact us.
Colours for Issue 02 will be black and gold.
Black (PANTONE Black U, #000000) and Metallic Gold (PANTONE 872 U, #ac936e)
*Please include your name on all files.
**Please note at this time we are only accepting previously unpublished submissions from authors located in so-called Canada.
*About Submitting to Hungry*
Based on feedback we heard from contributors, this issue we will be accepting a combination of pitches as well as completed submissions. The deadline for pitches is November 19, 2021 and the final deadline for submissions is December 19, 2021 .
We want to respect you and your work by providing a reasonable response time. We are a tiny team with limited capacity (juggling jobs, school and a new baby), so you will hear from us only if we have selected your piece for publication in Issue 02: It’s Complicated. You can expect to hear back from us about your piece(s) by mid-January 2022. If you do not hear from us by the end of January, that means we haven’t been able to include your piece in this issue. Please do share more of your work for future issues!
All contributors whose work is selected will be paid $50 upon publication of Issue 02.
We prioritize the work of creators whose voices are missing in food media. We make this happen with an intentional selection process and a committed editorial team. If you would like to learn more about our values and how your submission might align, please read more at https://www.hungryzine.com/about/.
Hungry is now accepting submissions and pitches for Issue 01, our official first issue. We want your art and writing on the theme of PRESERVE. How do we continue to preserve our cultures, traditions, and relationships to food? What do you preserve? What does your harvest include? How is preservation linked to power?
Types of content we are interested in:
Original reporting/investigative pieces
Interviews and profiles of people doing cool things in relation to preservation
Recipes about preservation processes (e.g. how to make pickles, kimchi, sauerkraut, jam, chutneys…)
Creative and quirky interpretations of preservation and self-preservation (e.g. how is preserving food linked to survival for you? What are your favourite highly-preserved foods?)
Illustrations
And more…pitch an idea to us!
*Submission Guidelines*
We are accepting pitches and submissions. This issue we will be accepting a combination of pitches as well as completed submissions. The deadline for pitches is July 18th, 2021 and the final deadline for submissions is August 15th, 2021.
Pitches can be sent to our email at [email protected] while final submissions are to be sent through our google form here.
Pitches:
*Pitch process: pitch us your idea, we will get back to you to let you know if we will pursue your piece, then you can create it. Deadline to pitch is July 18, 2021. We will be in touch by July 31, 2021 if we would like to pursue your piece.
Pitches should be 500 words or less.
Outline the story you want to tell or piece of art you want to create, why it matters here and now, what perspective you will bring to it, and why you think this story is a fit for Hungry.
Include your bio and links to previously published work or portfolios if you have them (no worries if you don’t, we are interested in work by emerging creators too!).
Submissions:
*Submission process: send us your completed work directly, skipping the pitch process. Deadline for completed submissions is August 15, 2021.
Poetry: Please submit a maximum of three poems as a PDF, DOC or DOCX.
Fiction and Nonfiction: Please submit a maximum of 1000 words as a PDF, DOC or DOCX. Writing can include but not limited to short stories, essays, interviews, and recipes.
Visual art and photography: Please send up to three low-resolution images. We accept submissions in colour. Please be aware that Hungry will be printed on a risograph press and colour options will be limited (two to three colours).
*Please include your first and last name on all files.
About Submitting to Hungry
*Please note at this time we are only accepting previously unpublished submissions from authors located in so-called Canada.
*All contributors whose work is selected will be paid $50 upon publication.
*We prioritize the work of creators whose voices are missing in food media. We make this happen with an intentional selection process and a committed editorial team. If you would like to learn more about our values and how your submission might align, please read more at https://www.hungryzine.com/about/.
*We enjoy art and writing that makes us laugh, makes us cry, makes us question. We enjoy writing that is candid, raw, critical, irreverent, thoughtful, loving. We want stories that challenge, critique, inspire, that connect the personal to the political, and the individual to community. We want to elevate and amplify alternative and radical ways of imagining just food systems. We want your writing and art if you engage with food in any way – if you eat, make, grow, think about food – whether you are involved in the food industry, in agriculture, in community food work, in feeding yourself and others…
*We want to respect you and your work by providing a reasonable response time. We are a tiny team with limited capacity (juggling jobs, school and a new baby), so you will hear from us only if we have selected your piece for publication in Issue 01. You can expect to hear back from us about your piece(s) by early September 2021. If you do not hear from us by the end of September, that means we haven’t been able to include your piece in this issue. Please do share more of your work for future issues!
Our call for submissions for Issue 00: “Home Cooking” is now closed. Stay tuned for details about the issue’s launch, and call-outs for future issues.
With our first and pilot issue, we honour everyday food knowledge. We are asking for submissions on the theme of home cooking. What does home cooking mean to you? What stories, emotions, questions, relationships does “home cooking” bring up for you? In this year when many of us have been spending much time at home, what are you cooking and eating? What are your comfort foods? Who are the people you learned to cook from? What foods or meals are important to you? From who, or where, did you learn how to prepare them? How do you recreate, create and document home cooking knowledge?
About Submitting to Hungry
The deadline for submissions for Issue 00 is March 15th, 2021.
We will then review all submissions and make our selections. We want to respect you and your work by providing a reasonable response time. You can expect to hear back from us about your piece(s) by mid-April 2021.
If your piece is selected for publication, you will be paid $50 upon publication.
We prioritize the work of creators whose voices are missing in food media. We make this happen with an intentional selection process and a committed editorial team. If you would like to learn more about our values and how your submission might align, please read more at https://www.hungryzine.com/about/.
Submission Guidelines
Submissions are to be sent through our google form here.
Poetry: Please submit a maximum of three poems as a PDF, DOC or DOCX.
Fiction and Nonfiction: Please submit up to two pieces, with a maximum of 1000 words each, as a PDF, DOC or DOCX. Writing can include but not limited to short stories, essays, interviews, and recipes.
Visual art and Photography: Please send up to three low-resolution images. We accept submissions in colour. Please be aware that Hungry will be printed on a risograph press and colour options will be limited (two to three colours).
