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EAF x The Skinny Emerging Writers 2025
GNAW issue 2: Call for pitches
Contributors

EAF x The Skinny Emerging Writers 2025

The Skinny are teaming up with Edinburgh Art Festival for a fourth year running to commission four emerging art writers to write about the EAF25 Programme. The project aims to platform Scotland-based, early career writers from backgrounds underrepresented in journalism, through a mentored, paid opportunity to be published, in print and online, by The Skinny.

Full details can be found here or via EAF's Instagram; application deadline is Monday 7 April 2025, 9am

GNAW issue 2: Call for pitches

GNAW, the food and drink magazine from The Skinny, is back for 2025 – and we want to read your pitches. 

For our second issue, the broad theme is Community – we want to celebrate the people, places, teams, bakers, makers and cocktail shakers who feed us all. What makes a great local restaurant ‘great’? And what makes a great local pub ‘local’? What does your community bring to what you eat and drink? And what does that community look like?

We’re looking for features, profiles, interviews and opinion pieces – as ever, we want to hear stories we haven’t heard before, and particularly stories from backgrounds and perspectives that might get missed or overlooked elsewhere.

Send your pitches (up to 100w on your idea, along with a short writing sample, published or unpublished) to food@theskinny.co.uk by 9 Mar. If you have any questions, send us an email – all commissioned articles will be paid at 10p per word, and if you need a bit more background or help putting your pitch together, our full pitching guide is here.

CONTRIBUTORS (Writers, Illustrators, Photographers)

The Skinny is your magazine: a collaborative effort, it’s put together by people who love their region and its culture, for people who love their region and its culture – and our contributors are known for having something new to say as well as a passion for their areas of expertise.

We are looking for writers, illustrators and photographers on an ongoing basis to help make The Skinny an informed, inspiring, witty and opinionated collection of the voices and talents that makes Scotland such an exciting place to be.

With 35,000+ copies distributed to more than 650 venues, The Skinny gives writers a platform to get their voice heard, and illustrators and photographers an opportunity to showcase their work and build their portfolio.

Pitching to The Skinny: Before you pitch your article ideas, we first recommend reading this pitching guide, which gives clear advice on writing a successful, eye-catching pitch to The Skinny and answers many questions you might have about the process.

If you’re a writer: Please introduce yourself to the relevant section editor – see contact details here – and send them two or three samples of your work.

If you’re an illustrator or photographer: Please email jobs@theskinny.co.uk with the subject line 'Contributor: illustrator' or 'Contributor: photographer' and let us know your area of expertise/interest (e.g. perhaps you’re a fashion photographer, or would like to try more live music photography) – and please link us to your portfolio where possible rather than attaching large files.