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Marc Reyes @marcus1984.bsky.social · 3d

This week @contingent-mag.bsky.social announced a #cfp for our December series, A Time of Monsters.

If you have a monster pitch, please send it our way. Thanks to a Kitchings Family Foundation grant, every essay will be $300.

#skystorians #monsters

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The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

Contingent is a non-profit history magazine. Our writers are adjuncts, museum workers, independent scholars—all people who work outside the tenure-track professoriate. Contingent is rooted in three pr...

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Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 4d

If you're interested in pitching us but aren't familiar with the magazine, read a few articles but also take a quick glance at our About Us page. It will help you pitch better! contingentmagazine.org/about/

Who We Are

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Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 6d

Our new CFP is up and it is monstrous.

The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

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Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 5d

Much appreciated!

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Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 6d

As always, we prioritize contributions from people who have completed postgraduate work in history and are working outside the tenure-track professoriate.

We welcome pitches from anyone, but prioritize contributions from people who have completed postgraduate work in history and are working outside the tenure-track professoriate, including (but not limited to) contingent faculty, K-12 teachers, graduate students, and public historians.

For consideration, use the form on our Pitch Us page and select “Monsters” from the drop-down menu. The submission window closes on Monday, October 20, end of day, with notifications to follow within a week. Essays will be due November 21 for publication in December. Please note the quick turnaround time for first drafts and revisions. Compensation is $300.

This expanded December issue is made possible in part by support from the Kitchings Family Foundation.

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Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 6d

All kinds of monsters are welcome.

For this year’s special December issue, Contingent Magazine is now inviting pitches for essays (800-1500 words) that offer historical perspectives on monsters in any geographic or temporal context. We are eager to publish stories that are specific, surprising, and engage with primary sources. All kinds of monsters are welcome. Pitch us:

on mutants, hybrids, and engineered life;
on beings “prodigious” and people who are made Other;
on supernatural entities, mythical creatures, and cryptids;
on whatever is “monstrous” from the perspective of your historical subjects.

We are especially interested in essays that explore the intersection of monstrosity and contingency, whether historical or professional. How has precarity made or unmade monsters in the past? Can an archival encounter make a monster of the historian? Though our call is broad, please note that we are not considering pitches about Frankenstein in any of its iterations; we already have a Promethean essay in the lab and on the slab, so to speak.

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Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 6d

The monster has been here all along.

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Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 6d

Our new CFP is up and it is monstrous.

The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

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Alison Laurence @dinostalgia.bsky.social · 7d

The monster is a friend, or so we @contingent-mag.bsky.social suggest in our CFP... a fiend to historians especially, though not exclusively.

Pitch us an essay about your historical monster, whatever form that monster takes, by October 20!

Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 7d

It’s here! The call for pitches for our deluxe December issue, “A Time of Monsters,” supported by a grant from the Kitchings Family Foundation.

The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

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Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 7d

It’s here! The call for pitches for our deluxe December issue, “A Time of Monsters,” supported by a grant from the Kitchings Family Foundation.

The monster has been here all along. It is a historical constant that manifests in wildly different ways across time, place, and culture. Whatever form it takes, the monster claws at categories; it un...

a man with a pumpkin on his head is standing in a cemetery

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Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 7d

December issue CFP arrives today!

ALT: a man with a pumpkin on his head is standing in a cemetery

a black and white photo of a monster with barbed wire around its neck

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Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 8d

This year, we'll be publishing a ✨deluxe✨ December issue with 6 shorts and a feature-length review, made possible in part by a grant from the Kitchings Family Foundation!

The CFP arrives on Wednesday October 1. Don't miss it.

ALT: a black and white photo of a monster with barbed wire around its neck

a group of people are walking through a field at night .

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Marc Reyes @marcus1984.bsky.social · 8d

@contingent-mag.bsky.social's CFP for our special December issue is creeping along. Find out what spookiness we have unearthed on October 1.

ALT: a group of people are walking through a field at night .

a black and white photo of a monster with barbed wire around its neck

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Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 8d

This year, we'll be publishing a ✨deluxe✨ December issue with 6 shorts and a feature-length review, made possible in part by a grant from the Kitchings Family Foundation!

The CFP arrives on Wednesday October 1. Don't miss it.

ALT: a black and white photo of a monster with barbed wire around its neck

a dark cave with a glowing light coming out of it

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Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 10d

A new CFP emerges this week! Our seventh December issue is going to be bigger and better than ever, so make sure to keep an eye out for the call. As always, the GIF is a hint.

Alt: Mothra emerges from her cocoon in Godzilla KOTM

a black and white photo of a man with a stethoscope around his neck screaming .

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Marc Reyes @marcus1984.bsky.social · 10d

The mad editors @contingent-mag.bsky.social have been conjuring a new CFP for our December issue. It will debut soon. Keep your eyes open and get ready to pitch. As always, the GIF is a hint.

ALT: a black and white photo of a man with a stethoscope around his neck screaming .

a dark cave with a glowing light coming out of it

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Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 10d

A new CFP emerges this week! Our seventh December issue is going to be bigger and better than ever, so make sure to keep an eye out for the call. As always, the GIF is a hint.

Alt: Mothra emerges from her cocoon in Godzilla KOTM

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David Mihalyfy 🇺🇦 @mihalyfy.bsky.social · 21d

Great essay on 19th c. women's rights activist Amelia Bloomer, in @contingent-mag.bsky.social.
contingentmagazine.org/2025/09/09/d...

Long before it was fashionable, Bloomer pioneered what would later be dubbed "respectability politics"

Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians

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Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 23d

A reminder that we're collecting for our 2025 contingent publication lists!

Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...

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Marc Reyes @marcus1984.bsky.social · 23d

"Bloomer was many things: a writer, editor, lecturer, temperance activist, and even deputy postmaster. But a fashion rebel she was not."

Excellent @contingent-mag.bsky.social review by @hottycouture.bsky.social of @scatterall.bsky.social recent Bloomer bio.

contingentmagazine.org/2025/09/09/d...

Long before it was fashionable, Bloomer pioneered what would later be dubbed "respectability politics"

Publications by Non-Tenure-Track Historians

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Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 23d

A reminder that we're collecting for our 2025 contingent publication lists!

Since we began publishing in 2019, Contingent has published end-of-year lists of books and articles by non-tenure-track historians released in the past calendar year. To submit something for inclusion...

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Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 28d

"The 'feminist killjoy' stereotype is as timely—and misleading—now as it was then."

A review of Sara Catterall's new biography of Amelia Bloomer by @hottycouture.bsky.social

Long before it was fashionable, Bloomer pioneered what would later be dubbed "respectability politics"

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Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · 28d

"The 'feminist killjoy' stereotype is as timely—and misleading—now as it was then."

A review of Sara Catterall's new biography of Amelia Bloomer by @hottycouture.bsky.social

Long before it was fashionable, Bloomer pioneered what would later be dubbed "respectability politics"

Postcard from a Southerner in Harlem

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Marc Reyes @marcus1984.bsky.social · Aug 31

It's been a while folks but @contingent-mag.bsky.social has a new postcard!

Read about Ashley Steenson's recent visit to the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.

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A visit to the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture