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.

Cloth Paper Scissors®

If you have a technique, project, or body of work to share, Cloth Paper Scissors® would like to know about it. We want to show other artists—from beginners to the advanced—the latest, edgiest, most unusual collage and mixed-media techniques and applications.

Cloth Paper Scissors® is most interested in publishing previously unpublished articles that cover unique collage and mixed-media techniques geared to beginner, intermediate, or advanced artists. Feature articles may explore motifs and methods that will inspire and inform collage, fiber, and mixed-media artists. We are interested in articles focusing on fabric and paper collage techniques; paint and dye applications; handmade books; creative sketchbook keeping; art journaling; altered books techniques; ways of working with polymer clay; stitching on paper, fabric, and other media; crafting as a business and way of life; embossing techniques; digital imagery for collage; working with found objects; crafting “green”; and stories about creating inspired studios for mixed-media artists.

Art on Spec for Cloth Paper Scissors®

If you have 1–3 pieces of art in a series to share with us, you may send the art directly to our offices. This kind of submission is appropriate for technique-oriented articles, our Featured Letter, “I Made This,” and Artist-to-Artist, as well as other departments that focus on 1–3 pieces of art.

To submit a piece on spec:

Send your art to us at:
Cloth Paper Scissors
Attn: Submissions
23 Gleasondale Road
P.O. Box 685
Stow, MA 01775

• The entire submission, including up to three pieces of artwork and its packaging can weigh no more than 5 lbs. and the package may be no larger than 12" x 12" x 14".
• Attach a label with your name, address, phone number, email address, and the name of the piece to each piece you send us.
• On a CD, include an account of how you were inspired to make the piece(s) and a description of the techniques and materials used.
• Include payment to cover the cost of returning the art to you via the method you sent it, in the form of check or cash in U.S. dollars, or provide your credit card information, including name, account number, expiration date, and CVV code. We will return your artwork via USPS or UPS at our discretion using the funds you provide.
• We will let you know if we have accepted your submission within 12 weeks from its receipt, and return it within that time if it has not been accepted. If we do decide to publish your work and find we’ll need to keep it longer than three months, we’ll contact you by email.
• No phone calls or emails regarding your submission, please. If you would like to know that your submission has been received, please include a self-addressed, stamped postcard with each submission.

Submissions via email

• Send a description of the technique or article you propose, and an outline for the article to submissions@clothpaperscissors.com.
• Be sure to include your name, address, and phone number in the email.
• Please include photographs of the art or process (up to three low-resolution jpegs with your email). One email and up to 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.

Cloth Paper Scissors Studios

Due to the positive response to our first Studios issue we will be publishing additional Studios issues dedicated to a wider variety of studios—from collage and quilting to weaving and beading. The studios will vary greatly in size, from rented outside studio space to tiny in-home closet-sized studios.

We are particularly interested in seeing how you make the most of your space; any craft-related collections you have (such as antique sewing boxes, Bakelite buttons, vintage knitting needles, etc.); storage tips (especially “green” ones); studio makeovers; how you incorporate teaching or selling your art in your studio; unusual or unconventional storage ideas; and unusual or unconventional wall and window treatments (like walls covered with collaged fabric or paper parasols as window shades).
If you have anything studio-related to share, please follow our email submissions protocol and send up to three low-resolution jpegs of your studio, with STUDIOS in the subject line and a brief description, to submissions@quiltingarts.com.

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!