How to Pitch FUSSY
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FUSSY plays precise, not nice. We break rules. This is a rare exception.
We champion writers with killer editorial instincts and ruthless originality. If we read it elsewhere, it’s dead on arrival. Ordinary never leaves the inbox.
We flaunt intelligence and cultivate experimentation with zero shame. FUSSY taps experts to define daddy issues and defends a $200 serum in the same breath. In our world, dissecting why you want a rich boyfriend in public, when emotional availability is really your holy grail of relationship material, is gutsy. Gutsy is the standard.
A superb read is meaty and provocative. An undeniable writer is fearless. We want essays and features that seduce at first glance, then strike a nerve: when Pilates turned political, how Mean Girls made you a lesbian, what it means when you stop feeling like yourself. Creative brilliance is our baseline. We publish work the status quo hesitates to green light.
Our writers deliver worlds that never flinch. FUSSY thinks for itself, a briefcase full of receipts in hand. Slander ruins; inaccuracy kills stories. Be bold and bulletproof. We’re fine if they call us bitches. We’d vomit if they called us bullshitters.
We worship personality, wit, and candor rooted in uncompromising ethics. Outsmart us, and earn the right to fuss.
Pitches are reviewed and accepted on a rolling basis. Send your genius to pitches@fussymedia.com with your headline, an enticing introduction (including 2-3 clips), and a brief summary of your pitch and why it belongs on FUSSY. Standard pieces run 800 to 1200 words. We typically respond within two to four weeks. Rates are discussed upon acceptance.
What We Cover
We publish personal essays, reported features, cultural criticism, and style writing. Across all work, the writer’s lived experience is present and relevant.
ENTERTAINMENT
Everything in music, tv, and film that deserves a deep dive, from culture-shifting phenomena to personal obsessions. Criticism stripped of gossip blog vernacular — work that reads like art, without filler. Write about an album that’s most powerful in fall. How a film’s account of motherhood forgot you. That you deleted the apps to avoid the influencers and now they’re on your TV. Define what separates indifference from adoration from disdain.
CULTURE
Writing that unravels what we do in between waking and sleeping. Culture is how we date, eat, scroll, and believe. We want framing that decodes what’s happening around us and risks calling out its meaning. What we chase reveals as much as what we ghost. Everyone’s using hobbies to distract from the friction. Visibility is a personality. Drive us to new convictions about the world we thought we knew.
STYLE
Stories about things you own, covet, or daydream about on your body. Trend pieces about how we choose to look and what we refuse to perform. Explorations of consumerism and desire that cut deeper than price tags or silhouettes. Every purchase outs your layers. Is taste instinct or inheritance? Did we buy it because we wanted it, or did the feed demand it?
LIFE
Evocative pieces on existing. We’re all entangled with money, relationships, sex, failure, family, power, and identity. There’s nothing more relatable than an experience we thought was singular being reflected back at us. Exploitation campaigns and common-sense coaching are rejected. We want accounts of complexity, unshakable records of autonomy and individuality.
Humanity is less neatly packaged than we’re comfortable admitting. Some experiences and perspectives are risqué, taboo, maybe even a little morally defiant; that doesn’t mean the story should be erased. An impulse you tried to control but ended up controlling you. Desires that make you question yourself. The moment you looked in the mirror and felt unmoored by what you saw. Evolution documented.