pitch call: write for catnip, vol 2

Hello writers,

Ask a cat, and they’ll tell you: any time is the right time for more catnip. And here at Broccoli, we’re listening. It’s time to make Volume 2 of Catnip—our joyful, sweet, sometimes silly but always smart celebration of all things cat—and we’re looking for your cat tales.

The best way to understand the type of work we’re looking for is to read Catnip volume 1. If it has yet to cross your path, here’s a recap of some of the fiction, essays, interviews, profiles, and cat facts in it:

✦ Cattitude Adjustment: A Q&A with cat behaviorist Kristiina Wilson reveals why cats do the things they do

✦ Pawparazzi: How Terry deRoy Gruber strayed into becoming “the cat photographer.”

✦ Catnap: The subversive art of sleeping

✦ On the Cat Walk: Chris Watson of @catluminati on how to make friends with your neighborhood cats.

✦ LOLcats: Before there was Grumpy Cat, Maru, or Oh Long Johnson, there was diabellalovescats dot com.

✦ Fiction: “Cat Pictures, Please”

✦ Claws of a Viper, Feet of Cloudberries: Cats in folklore

✦ Do Robot Cats Dream of Wireless Mice?: On the ineffable embodiment of divine grace that is a cat's love

✦ From Catpricorn to Pawsces: What does your cat's astrological sign reveal about their purrsonality?

✦ Cough it Up: Antidotes, jewels, and talismans; a hair-raising history of hairball

✦ Caturday Night Fever: On dressing up like a cat.

✦ ASMeowRRR: The soundtrack of life with a cat

✦ Legal Claws: Codifying cats in medieval Celtic laws.

✦ Kitty Corners: Catty locations around the world

✦ Cat Calls: Ways to say cat in many different languages

✦ Kuroneko: Crossing paths with Japan’s black cats

✦ The Year We Became Cats: On transforming into someone else and being yourself

✦ Jardin du Chat: Plant a pleasure garden for a cat

✦ Wings of Desire: A brief history of winged cats

✦ My Cat’s Other Family: The story of a cat living a dual life

✦ Ghost Cat: Remembering a beloved pet

✦ A brief history of notable cat ladies

✦ Round-ups of cat-themed books and films

Please note: We aren’t looking to repeat stories or themes in volume 02, so please don’t pitch us something we’ve already covered. Scratch a different part of the sofa!

Some helpful notes about Catnip to keep in mind as you think through your pitches:

✦ It’s fun! Catnip is a magazine of joy and appreciation, so stories exploring challenging themes that skew sad or problematic (think ethical quandaries around domestication, big cats in cages, etc) are not a good fit.