Write for Arts Professional

 

Arts Professional provides a unique platform for people working in the industry to voice their opinions, share ideas and best practice, debate important issues, advocate for change or simply showcase their work.

Every week we publish a range of content relevant to the arts and cultural sector, including:

  • Analysis of key issues facing the sector
  • Opinion or provocation
  • Commentary on a news story or event
  • Summaries of academic research
  • Information and/or advice on arts management practice
  • Insight into innovations
  • Case studies of ground-breaking projects
  • Examples of best practice from other sectors or countries
  • Profiles of industry figures

We aim to publish a range of diverse voices. If you have an original perspective on a subject of importance to the sector, or hold a passionate opinion you want to air, we’d like to hear your pitches at [email protected].

We provide guidelines for contributors but our editorial team are here to polish your prose to communicate your thoughts to best effect. Each month we focus on a particular editorial theme, although contributions can be on any subject of relevance to the sector.

Editorial themes for 2025:

  • January          Culture and the civil society covenant
  • February         Migrant communities
  • March             Covid legacy: Five years on from lockdown

Past editorial themes (2024)

  • January          Cultural policy: fit for purpose?
  • February        Health and wellbeing: arts interventions in healthcare
  • March             Regeneration and the arts
  • April               Artistic freedom: threats and challenges
  • May                Philanthropy: fundraising of the future?
  • June               The arts in education
  • July                Cultural devolution
  • August           No features
  • September   Partnership development
  • October        Workplace culture
  • November    New business models
  • December    Equality, Diversity and Inclusion

From proposal to publication, the commissioning process takes place over a six-week period. Once an idea has been accepted,  a formal brief of the content required will be sent three weeks before the copy deadline. We aim to publish within the following three weeks.

Remuneration will be offered to professional writers, freelancers and those currently unemployed.

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