Call for Proposals: CTM Magazine 2024

Deadline: 24 September 2023

This worldwide open call seeks proposals from writers and thinkers wishing to engage with the topic of Sustain, as well as ongoing topics within independent music ecosystems and scenes.

This open call is addressed to writers, thinkers, wordsmiths, and artists wishing to propose a written piece to be published in the context of CTM 2024. Proposals should relate to topics evoked by the festival theme of Sustain, as well as ongoing topics within the independent music ecosystem such as equity, access, cross-cultural exchange, sustainability, technology and tools for production, music aesthetics and practices.

Priority will be given to proposals from BIPOC authors/artists, as well as voices from diverse localities, practises, and communities.

Benefit

Selected authors will receive an honorarium of 300 € for their article.

Criteria

Authors that they have previously published are welcome to apply with new proposals, however pitches for reprints are strictly not eligible.
Applications should be sent in English, however it is possible to write your full-length piece in a different language. They offer a translation budget to authors writing in a language other than English, and both original-language and English versions of the article can be featured side-by-side in the magazine. Please note that due to the capacities of the team, editorial and proofreading work will be done using the English-language version, with relevant changes then carried back into the original-language version. It is essential to include a minimum of one high-quality image or graphic with any article, to be used as a header image. Authors should suggest photos that they have the rights to use.
Article formats are flexible and can include essays, opinion pieces, research, interviews, fiction, performative writing, speculative exercises, photo-based exposés, etc. Creative / unusual formats are possible but must be flexible and open to discussion with the editorial team, to accommodate the limits of CTM’s web architecture. A note to applicants wishing to propose a creative writing style or format: please give examples of how sound and music will be situated or featured in your work. For example specific inspirations and references (people, histories, sounds, tracks, traditions etc) and / or mentioning formats (eg. embedded tracks, sound clips, citations, etc) will make the proposal clearer.

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