Ariana Gunderson
SAFN Section Editor
Anthropology News
We hope you will consider submitting to SAFN’s online column in Anthropology News! This is a chance to share your work with a broad and diverse audience: AN has no paywall and garners around 25,000 unique page views each month. We’re looking for compelling storytelling about the research and lives of our members: think a magazine-style missive that transports readers and gives them something to think about, without droning academic jargon. With a subject area as enticing as food, your research is sure to be gobbled up by AN readers, and I’m here to help you share your work with the broad audience seeking anthropological storytelling.
We publish one piece each quarter in alignment with the magazine’s quarterly themes. And the themes for 2025 are….drumroll…
Q1 – Migration – Due February 1 (publish by end of March)
Q2 – Signal/Noise – Due May 1 (publish by end of June)
Q3 – Invisibility – Due August 1 (publish by end of September)
Q4 – Fluidity – Due November 1 (publish by end of December).
Pitch us your tall tales, heartbreaking narratives, pithy essays, alluring stories, or snippets from your life in the field! If you have an idea for any quarter in 2025, reach out as soon as the idea strikes you so we can get started on your piece.
We welcome pitches for three types of submissions:
- Story. A beautifully written 1600-word exploration of an engaging topic, with an image or two.
- Photo Essay. 6-8 stunning, high-quality images that convey a narrative, and an introductory text of max. 750 words.
- Interview: An anthropological conversation you think AN readers should listen in on, up to 1600 words.
Pitches should take the form of a brief ‘abstract’ for the article: a few sentences describing the topic and your planned treatment of it, that also give me a sense of your writing voice. If you have an idea but aren’t quite at the pitch stage, contact me and I can help you develop your idea into a pitch. With any queries, don’t hesitate to contact me at arianagunderson@gmail.com