Write for us

Got a Story We’re Sleeping On?

We built this site because we were tired of reading the same five Canadian food clichés recycled across a dozen sites. If you’ve got a story that isn’t one of those — something specific, something you actually lived or cooked or tasted — we want to hear about it.

You don’t need a byline at a major outlet to pitch us. You don’t need a journalism degree, a food styling portfolio, or ten thousand Instagram followers. What you need is a genuine story and the willingness to write it honestly. Some of our favourite pieces have come from home cooks, small producers, and people who just happened to know something the rest of us didn’t.

What We’re Looking For

We’re always interested in:

• Producer and maker profiles — the cheesemaker, the distiller, the forager, the person doing something interesting nobody’s covering yet
• Personal essays about food and drink — a family recipe with a story behind it, a dish tied to a specific place or memory, an honest account of learning to cook something
• Recipes that actually work — tested in a real kitchen, written clearly enough that someone else could follow them
• Regional and seasonal pieces — what’s happening at a specific market, in a specific season, in a specific part of the country
• Drink coverage — wine, beer, cider, spirits, and the people making them, with real knowledge behind the opinion
• The odd argument piece — a strong, well-reasoned take on something people actually debate (ketchup chips, the “correct” Caesar, whether a Nanaimo bar needs custard powder)

We’re less interested in generic listicles, content that reads like it was written to please a search algorithm rather than a reader, or anything that could have been written about food in any country rather than this one specifically.

How to Pitch

Send us a short pitch, not a finished draft, unless you’ve already written the piece and it’s ready to go. A good pitch includes:

• One or two sentences on the idea itself
• Why it matters, or why now
• A rough sense of angle — personal essay, profile, recipe, opinion piece
• A line or two about you and why you’re the right person to write it (not a full resume — just enough context)

Send pitches to [email protected], with “Pitch: your idea” in the subject line. We read everything that comes in, though we can’t always reply individually to submissions we don’t move forward with.

A Few Honest Notes Before You Pitch

We’re a small, enthusiast-run publication, not a large outlet with a big freelance budget. We’re upfront about that so nobody’s surprised later:

• We don’t accept content written primarily to promote a business, product, or service — that’s advertising, and it needs to be arranged and clearly labelled as such, not submitted as an editorial pitch
• We don’t pay for unsolicited content unless we’ve agreed to it in writing, in advance
• We edit for clarity, length, and house style, and we’ll always loop you in on any substantial changes before publishing
• Not every pitch gets a yes, and that’s not always a reflection of quality — sometimes it’s timing, sometimes it’s overlap with something else we’re running

If none of that scares you off, we’d genuinely love to hear what you’ve got.

Pull up a chair — there’s room at this table for more voices.