SUBMISSIONS

Below you will find submission guidelines for both QUILTING ARTS® and CLOTH PAPER SCISSORS®, as well as our upcoming special issues of QUILTING ARTS GIFTS and CLOTH PAPER SCISSORS STUDIOS. If you’re not sure which magazine to submit to, don’t worry. We consider all submissions for the best possible placement.

Quilting Arts Magazine®

If you have a technique, project, or body of work to share, Quilting Arts Magazine® would like to hear from you! We are looking for the latest, most creative and/or unusual techniques and applications. We are interested in articles concerning contemporary art quilting, landscape quilting, journal quilting, free-motion stitching, hand embroidery, quilted home décor, textile sketchbook keeping, designing a quilt studio, fabric painting and dyeing, innovative piecing techniques, beading, wearable arts, embellished quilting, mixed media, surface design, and crazy quilting.

How to Submit
For technique, process, or project articles, quilts for our Spotlight section, or if you would like to be a profiled artist and want to show us your artwork, we strongly encourage you to submit your queries via email to submissions@quiltingarts.com. See email submission directions below.
Submissions via email
• Send a brief description of the article you propose, including possible length and sidebar suggestions, to submissions@quiltingarts.com.
• Be sure to include your name, address, website, and phone number and list your credentials (such as teaching or previous writing experience).
• Please include photographs of the art or process (up to three low-resolution jpegs) with your email. One email and three attached low-res jpegs only, please. If we are interested in your query, we may ask for more photos, or higher resolution jpegs to be sent, but we do all our magazine photography in-house.

You will receive an auto-reply immediately, acknowledging that your email has been received. We will let you know within 12 weeks via email whether we have accepted your query. No phone calls or emails, please.

Please note: Artist Profiles, Book Reviews, Product Reviews, and Reader Challenges are written by our in-house staff.

Mailing a Submission

If you prefer, you may also send in queries via regular mail and include an SASE (self-addressed, stamped envelope) if you want your query materials returned. Succinctly describe your story idea or technique and include prints of artwork or samples (these are just to give us an idea and do not need to be professionally shot). Please do not send original artwork at this point in the process.

To mail your query, send it to:

Quilting Arts Magazine
ATTN: Submissions
23 Gleasondale Road
P.O. Box 685
Stow, MA 01775

Quilting Arts Gifts

We’re seeking holiday gift and home décor projects and patterns that have an art quilting flair to them. Projects can range from decorative, embellished pillows and quilted place mats to wearable art. We encourage projects that celebrate all faiths and traditions. Please follow our email submission guidelines (above) and send up to three low-resolution jpegs to submissions@quiltingarts.com with GIFTS in the subject line. Deadline for all GIFTS queries is March 1, 2009.

Copyright Issues

No submissions which may violate copyright laws will be accepted. If your artwork could be perceived by Interweave Press LLC as a potential copyright violation, please provide written consent by the party which may have standing with regard to the copyright issue.

Thank you. We look forward to hearing from you!