Contributor’s guide
This magazine helps creatives reconnect to their natural inspiration by reading stories about how you found yours.
Rewild stories tend to be about
- Getting outside, literally and figuratively
- Learning from the natural world
- Making meaning of your surroundings
- Tales where science and myth agree
- Stories of craftsmanship (‘art’ is from ‘artisan’)
- Timeless creative wisdom
The typical story is anything that rattles us back to waking life
issues you can contribute to
Submit your pitch to rewild@fenwick.media
6 | What is true
And how would you even know anymore?
5 | A guild of your own
As our affiliations fragment into micro-communities, do you even know your friends anymore? Your family? Who is part of what surprising subgroups? To what secret guilds do you yourself belong, and what would surprise us about you?
4 | Traverse the adverse
What great difficulty caused you to grow the most? As modern convenience dissolves our daily impediments, how are you reveling in fruitful friction? Befriending your barriers? Who are we when we must overcome something, but perhaps more important, who are we are we traverse the adverse?
3 | Nature did it better
It’s difficult to beat four billion years of experimentation. When have you or someone else realized, after great effort, that the answer lay in nature? Or the cosmos? Where does logic look primitive next to biologic?
2 | Beautiful Conspiracy
What could you achieve if you believed the world was conspiring to help you? This issue is inspired by the antonym of paranoia, “pronoia”—the believe that the world is engaged in a conspiracy to your benefit.
1 | Rewilding
The inaguarl issue focuses on this question: What can we learn by getting outside, both literally and metaphorically? How do jaunts into the outside world nurture something within our work?
At this stage, we can’t pay for pieces—yet
This is a highly speculative, money-losing venture. There is no pay as of yet. It’s a great place to publish the things you want to see in the world, and to oxygenate your art.
This is a magazine to help creatives get outside, and out of their own way
We aspire to bring them screaming back to waking life with stories of anthropologists discussing chatbots of the dead, ecologists recounting how rats conquered Alaska, or social scientists critiquing Hong Kong’s shoebox housing. Our readers will wolf down ancient wisdom, timeless poetry, and anything you can share of that great corpus of artistic human ingentuity.
We believe that this project can make all marketing more meaningful, and contribute to humanity’s survival. Because what if we turned that $1 trillion spent on marketing into something more fruitful, like, you know, real education and art?
Our secondary audience are chief marketers and other executives who can be persuaded that this is good for business. Which is like, okay. We’ll take that money and make art.
Our readers expect use to name that nameless feeling of feeling lost at work—and recovering
We started this magazine for ourselves. Because we tried giving everything to work and came to know that hollow, gloomy, truth: It will never love us back. We realized that this magazine wasn’t something we had to wait to launch until we were successful ... rather, we can’t be successful unless we do. So here we are.
Readers expect us to understand deeper, explain clearer, and name the nameless.
- Show creative restraint—Do less, show more.
- Make sense of making sense—Really interrogate your own thinking.
- Participate in the narrative—To tell truthfully, you must first live it.
- Speak with uncommon clarity—Write to be instantly understood.
Examples of such works
The first issue is full of good examples.
But here are more:
- What can babies teach us about making more climate-friendly …
- Rewild newsletter 8: Nature did it better
- Carina Rampelt Dead Broets Society: The Story Behind the Strange and Bewild…
- Aeon Magazine Why do other people form imaginary shapes in our minds? | Ae…
- Chris Gillespie The CMO Who Never Wasted a Single Content Cent — Fenwick
- Where the Wild Things Aren’t—Asterisk
- Amanda Chicago Lewis The people who ruined the internet
- The End of Combustion Vehicles - Fifth Draft | Books in Prog…
- The New York Times ‘I Turned to See a Woman in Running Gear Walking Toward an O…
We are on a mission to help 40 million creatives make marketing meaningful
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Rewild magazine is here to help you reclaim your creative source.
It is the most public feature of The Rewild where we are helping 40 million workplace creatives get reinspired with timely art and timeless wisdom to build a world that makes more meaningful marketing.