The slow dispatch

The magazine's newsletter is called The slow dispatch. It is one piece a month, plus the editor's marginalia from the reporting that didn't make it into the final draft. We do not write to a fixed schedule, but we file at a fixed cadence: one long-form piece, one set of marginalia, in the second week of each month.

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Why one a month

Because the writing this magazine publishes does not work at daily cadence. Because a slow dispatch lets us put the reporting notes alongside the published piece without making the published piece itself a brief. Because the reader who finishes a five-thousand-word profile and wants more is the reader the magazine exists for, and the dispatch is the place where that reader gets the rest.

The full editorial cadence is on the FAQ. The masthead is on the contributors page. The pitching guide is on the editorial guidelines.