Every address on this page goes to a real person on the Stack Quarterly editorial team. We aim to respond within the windows below. If you don’t get a reply, please follow up; mail filters occasionally swallow things.
Address book
| For | Address | Response window |
|---|---|---|
| Editorial inquiries | editorial@stackquarterly.com | 2 business days |
| Pitches and contributions | pitches@stackquarterly.com | 10 business days |
| Tips (confidential) | tips@stackquarterly.com | 5 business days |
| Press / media | press@stackquarterly.com | 2 business days during issue weeks, 5 days otherwise |
| Corrections | corrections@stackquarterly.com | 1 business day acknowledgement, 5 days resolution |
| Newsletter subscribe | subscribe@stackquarterly.com | Automated |
| Republication requests | editorial@stackquarterly.com | 5 business days |
We do not maintain a phone line, a Slack workspace, or a Discord. Email is the channel.
Pitch guidelines
We accept pitches from working practitioners and from writers who can demonstrate practitioner standing through prior work. A good pitch is short and specific:
- Subject line:
Pitch: <working title>. - Paragraph 1: One sentence on the piece’s central claim. One sentence on why it matters now. One sentence on why you are the right person to write it.
- Bullets: Three to five points of what the piece will cover, in the order it will cover them. A draft outline is welcome but not required.
- Closing: Target word count, target deadline, and your contact email. Links to one or two prior pieces in your voice.
We respond within ten business days. Most pitches are declined; the most common reasons are “this is interesting but not on one of our beats,” “this is on one of our beats but we have a piece in flight that overlaps too much,” and “this is a good pitch but the standing is thin — write us a 600-word essay and re-pitch.”
Rates: practitioner essays $0.40-$0.60/word; case-study pieces $0.50-$0.70/word; landscape surveys (Editorial Team byline) handled in-house. Paid on publication, net-15.
Submitting a tip
Tips go to tips@stackquarterly.com. The standing instructions on that inbox:
- The named editor reads tips. No automated filtering, no AI summarization. The inbox is a human inbox.
- We do not pursue tipsters’ identities through legal channels. If you want anonymity from the reader, we can give you that; if you want anonymity from us, please understand that we cannot run a tip we cannot verify.
- A tip we cannot corroborate sits in our notes. It does not become a piece on the basis of a single anonymous source alone — see editorial guidelines.
- We do not pay for tips. We do credit (or not credit, per your preference) tipsters in pieces that result.
If your tip is time-sensitive or contains sensitive material, please indicate that in the subject line: TIP - TIME-SENSITIVE or TIP - SENSITIVE. The editor checks the tips inbox at least once per business day.
Pitch / contact form
The form above will open your mail client with the message pre-filled. If your browser does not handle mailto: cleanly, copy the message and send it to the address that matches your reason. The form is a fallback; direct email is the primary channel.
What we will not respond to
- Cold sales pitches for SEO services, link-exchange offers, or “guest post” requests from outside the practitioner beat. These go straight to the spam folder.
- Vendor PR pitches that are unrelated to a piece we already have in flight. We do not write from press releases.
- AI-generated outreach that obviously reuses the same template across publications. We can tell.
In person
Stack Quarterly does not host events at launch. Our contributors occasionally appear at developer conferences in their personal capacity, not as representatives of the publication. We do not bring brand booths to conferences. If you would like a Stack Quarterly contributor to speak at your event, write to press@ and we will pass the request to the named writer.