Submissions
Papercut excepts submissions from emerging photographers, artists, musicians, bloggers, writers, fashion brands and designers. If excepted, your work can be featured on our website, magazine, or both. All submission guidelines can be found below
Please send all submissions to info@papercutmag.com
Full Disclosure: By allowing Papercut to publish your work, you grant us permission to use your work in any of our publications, websites, marketing material, advertisements, videos, and any other mediums or formats used in the creation, dissemination, and monetization of Papercut content.
WRITER / BLOG SUBMISSIONS
At Papercut, we are always looking for guest writers and bloggers who would like to contribute to the magazine and website. If you are interested in writing for us, please send us an an email with the headline Writer or Blog submission and include a writing sample or links to some of your work/blog.
Some of the topics we cover include music, culture, art, artist and designer interviews, DIY fashion, and fashion technology. We love people who are creative and think differently, people who zag while everyone else zigs.
You are more than welcome to suggest things for us to cover, and if you are chosen as a contributor, you will have the opportunity to come up with your own topics as well.
We also do a blog feature we call Blogs We Love and may actually do a feature on your blog if it intrigues us.
DESIGNER / BRAND SUBMISSIONS
Papercut features new and emerging designers each week on our website and bi monthly in our magazine.
If you are a rising or emerging designer or clothing brand looking to be featured please send us an email with the headline Designer / Brand submission and make sure to include pictures of your products, a link to your website if you have one, and a brief bio.
We do not discriminate and love both womens and mens fashion, accessories, shoes, jewelry, and anything else that you can think of.
MUSIC SUBMISSIONS
Each week Papercut features new musical acts with our Music Tuesdays posts, as well in our magazine. If you would like us to feature your music, please send us an email with the headline music submission and include some information about you or your band, a link to where we can listen to your music, and your social sites.
As with designers, we have a very eclectic taste and love all genres of music as long as its good.
ART SUBMISSIONS
We love art too. So much so that we have a whole issue dedicated to it each year. We encourage any and all aspiring artists out there to send us your work so we can feature it. And just like music not art is off limits.
Once again, please send us an email with the headline art submission and include some images of your work (or links to view it) and a brief bio about yourself, your client, or your gallery.
online fashion spread
WEBITORIAL SUBMISSION
What is a Webitorial you ask? Good Question. It’s Papercut’s version of an online fashion spread, complete with credits (when applicable), a magazine like layout, and text graphic design. In other words, it’s just another way for us to show off the amazing work of emerging artists.
If you would like to submit of your work for inclusion please follow the below guidelines:
- -It must contain wardrobe and/or accessories from emerging or independent designers/brands (editorials featuring major labels such as Chanel or Topshop will not be excepted. At Papercut we are all about emerging talent, so naturally any photography we feature on our site should feature the work of rising designers and brands as well.
- -We’re not prudes, so Nudity is allowed, however it must be implemented tastefully.
- -We prefer that shoot be unpublished, but will make an exception if we really like the shoot.
- -There is no theme.
File size/specifications
All files must be sent as JPEG file attachments sized to 1020 pixels wide with a resolution of 100dpi.
Team credits
Please be sure to include all team credits with your submission, this should include, but is not limited to photographer, hair, makeup, stylist, model assistants, etc. If your model(s) are agency represented, please be sure to include the name of the agency. Also, if you or anyone on your team has a Google+ account please follow us and then include your URL so we can link to it when we do our preview posts.
Wardrobe credits
Please be sure to clearly state all wardrobe credits by image filename so that we can easily distinguish which look goes with which images. This helps us to avoid any errors! Lastly, please include URL's tosthe websites of the brands and designers you used in your spread. We need this info to verify that all designers and brands are in fact emerging.
Creative license
Our creative team will take care of all layout and design for the webitorial, so no need to format. If you have a specific name for your story, please be sure to include it with your submission, otherwise we will brainstorm and provide our own.
Please be Patient. We receive a lot of submissions and try to review everything and get back to people in a timely manner. On occasion however, we do get overloaded and it may take up to a week or more. Before submitting to us, please keep this in mind especially if you intend to submit your work to more then one publication in addition to us. The last thing we would want is to miss out on a great spread because it was promised to someone else before we could get to it.
SPECIAL ANNOUCEMENT: CALLING ALL PHOTOGRAPHERS & CREATIVE TEAMS
We are now accepting submissions for our upcoming JUNE 2012 Issue.
This is an open to all photographers and their creative teams. There are four main criteria you will need to follow:
1. It has to be an unpublished shoot.
2. It must contain wardrobe and/or accessories from emerging or independent designers/brands (editorials featuring major labels such as Chanel or Topshop will be disqualified unless they are kept to an absolute minimum).
3. Nudity is allowed, however it must be implemented tastefully.
4. You must follow the theme.
THEME: HIT US WITH YOUR BEST SHOT
For this issue, we’re going to keep it simple: we want you to (literally) hit us with your best shots.
Now, just because we’re keeping it simple doesn’t mean that “simple” is what we expect! We want you, creative masterminds, to push the boundaries. Here at Papercut, we believe that every new issue should be our best issue. With that being said, we’re upping the ante and taking only THE BEST OF THE BEST so be prepared to dazzle us…go big or go home!
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS
To make it easier for us to review all the submissions we receive, we ask that you follow these steps when sending us submissions:
* Label your email subject line as "JUNE 2012 Submission".
* Attach each image to your submission email as separate JPEG files. Please do not send us links to the images on your website, a zip file, or film strips (we won't even review them unless they match our requirements).
* Limit the number of images you submit to 20 and keep them under 1,000 pixels.
* Include an attached word document with complete team and wardrobe (with designer/brand website information) credits in your submission email, as well as an editorial name if you have one. Or you can put this in the email body. We need this so we can make sure your warddrobe credits are within our guidelines.
* You are more then welcome to submit up to 3 different submissions, but they must follow the above criteria each time you submit one.
THE FINAL DEADLINE IS FRIDAY JUNE 1, 2012 BY MIDNIGHT
NO EXCEPTIONS!
NOTIFICATION OF ACCEPTANCE
Upon receiving your submission we will send an email confirmation. Beyond that, we will only be following up with teams whose work we intend to use in the magazine and or on our website. If we choose any of your work, we will notify you shortly after the deadline closes.
Unfortunately, we are going to be able to include every photo submission or even every image from every shoot that gets included. If you are not open to the possibility of having only a few of your images included, then we recommend not submitting. Or you can always submit the rest of the editorial to other publications.
