Write for CR
We are looking for three to five writers to join us. Connoisseurship Roadshow is an independent magazine about craftsmanship, taste and the people who have spent time getting really good at something. Two issues a year and regular articles online in between them.
If you are early in your writing and serious about it, this is a good place to be. You work directly with the editor on every piece, from finding the subject through to the final read. Come to us with someone near you worth writing about and we will build the story together.
What CR Publishes
A person, not a place
The subject is someone who has spent years getting good at one thing. The shop, the kitchen or the workshop is how you get in the door, not the story itself.
Craft you can watch happen
Glassblowers, roasters, distillers, bakers, luthiers, gardeners, tattooers, marble makers, neon benders, pinball restorers. If somebody built the skill by hand over years, it belongs here.
Reported in person
You go, you look, you ask, you record. CR runs on first-hand reporting. That is the whole premise of a roadshow.
The test we apply to everything is simple. Is this piece about someone’s mastery of a craft? If you are not sure whether your idea fits, send it anyway and we will work it out together.
What You Get
A byline, an author page on this site and a printed copy of any issue your work appears in.
CR does not pay contributors yet. We are independent and small, and we would rather be straight with you about that now than have it come up later.
Writers who keep delivering become our correspondent for where they live. We would rather build that with a few people than run an open submissions pile.
Apply
Five minutes. We read every one ourselves and you will hear back either way. If it is a fit, the next step is shaping your subject into a pitch together.
Not a writer but you know someone worth covering? Tell us about them. Interested in partnering instead? Sponsorship is here.