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FUSE publishes writing that engages the relationship between political issues and contemporary culture. We commission reports, esssays, socially engaged artworks and publish artist’s writings and folios. We are committed to presenting culturally diverse viewpoints. We seek writing in which strong opinions are developed through informed analysis. FUSE is a magazine, not an academic journal; our audience is well educated & diverse, so we seek generous and stimulating writing with many entry points.

We accept unsolicited proposals for reviews on an ongoing basis at content [AT] fusemagazine [DOT] org. Open calls for reports, articles and projects for upcoming themed issues will appear on this page. Please consult our submission guide [PDF] before submitting.

PAY RATES (updated August 2012)

Short FUSE reports — $125 (up to 1,000 words)
Feature essays — $560 (up to 4,000 words)
Feature interviews — $455 (up to 3,500 words)
Projects — $250 (2, 4 or 6 pages, 8.75″ x 11″ at 300 dpi)
Reviews — $125 (up to 1,000 words)

Guidelines for the formatting of commissioned writing and projects can be found here [PDF].

UPCOMING ISSUES

Issue 36-3/SURVIVORS AND SURVIVALISTS
Survivors and Survivalists gives a rambunctiously critical twist to contemporary apocalypticism. It will offer a collection that recasts apocalypse in terms of real-world struggles, traumas and resilience, eschewing the privileged paranoia that often dominates this theme. The issue’s contents will be an eclectic mix of texts and artists’ projects foregrounding both contemporary  and historical perspectives and examples—the Toronto Zombie Walk, queer survivalism, nuclear detonation, Indigenous resurgence, and the Soviet Famine of 1920–22. In short, Survivors and Survivalists promises to be a crazy grab-bag of carnivalesque realness.
Contributors: Natalie Kouri-Towe; Kathryn Denning; Denise Jourdain; Richard Moszka; Atom Cianfrani; Andrea Pinheiro; Chelsea Vowel; Kathleen Tahk; Richard Hill; Maiko Tanaka; Lucas Freeman; Milena Placentile; Sarah Mangle.
Note: select content for FUSE 36-3 developed from York University Art History Graduate Students Association’s ”Fallout: Visions of Apocalypse” (9 March 2013) conference papers and presentations.
SUBMISSION IS CLOSED.  (View CFP)
LAUNCH JUNE 2013

Issue 36-4/States of Coloniality/AMERICAS (Decolonial Aesthetics)
Produced in collaboration with e-fagia organization.
SUBMISSION IS CLOSED. (View CFP)
LAUNCH SEPTEMBER 2013

Issue 37-1/Idle Know More
Deadline for unsolicited proposals: 1 July 2013
LAUNCH DECEMBER 2013

Issue 37-2/States of Coloniality/PAN-AFRICANISM
Deadline for unsolicited proposals: 1 October 2013
LAUNCH MARCH 2014