Make it new.

We are now accepting pitches from the Yale community for blog articles that tell engaging stories about the arts & the sciences.

We’re looking for writing for, about, and with science that is both nostalgic and futuristic, electrifying and inhibiting. We love seeing experimentation and exploration in your writing. We want to see worlds that defy gravity, characters that hunger and dream. We are looking for pitches for:

  • journalism, nonfiction, or memoir

  • fiction, poetry, or cross-genre creative work

  • photo essays

  • artwork

… as well as your midnight sketches, futuristic city blueprints, Dall-E black-out poetry, your apocalypse grocery shopping list, & so forth.

As for our formal issues, that are themed, collaborative projects, such as Issue 1 and Issue 2 – our magazine editorial staff writes and edits that together, and then comes up with an art project that we make together to go with it. This page is for the independent pitching process for contributors. To join CORTEX’s year-round staff, please apply to join our team here.

Please send your pitches in 1 paragraph, along with a sample of your past work, to cortexmagazine@gmail.com.

We are accepting pitches for CORTEX’s blog on a rolling basis, starting Jan. 10, 2023.

 

  • We accept pitches and drafted submissions for fiction and poetry.

    Pitches should be 1-2 paragraphs explaining your idea. Please attach any partial drafts and/or non-related writing samples.

    All pitches and submissions should have a clear scientific element.

  • We are accepting pitches for journalism.

    Pitches should be 1-2 paragraphs explaining your idea. If you have a partial draft, you may include this alongside your pitch.

    All submissions should center around an issue related to the future, past, or present of science; you should be ready to tackle this question in a long-form manner, combining individual insight with large-scale consequences. We encourage the use the first-person and creative, vignette-like formats. We enjoy uniqueness with these essays, and particularly ideas that explore science from an interdisciplinary approach.

  • We welcome pitches and pre-existing work submissions of photo essays, short films, & artworks that have a clear relationship to science.

 

The universe is made up of stories, not atoms.

– Muriel Rukseyer