Canadian Home & Country is Canada’s national magazine of country living and style. Our readers are both city and country dwellers, all with a love for country style – a laidback, casual approach to decorating using well-loved pieces old and new that have some personal connection to their owner.

Canadian Home & Country is published eight times per year, and each issue contains at least three feature home stories with beautiful photographs. In addition, we publish several columns and product pages packed with ideas, inspiration and advice, with a focus on antiques, restoration, decorating, cooking, gardening and entertaining.

Canadian Home & Country is happy to accept pitches and queries from outside writers. We look for stories that have national appeal, about people or places that embody a ‘country’ attitude. Please send us a written query, with photographs, if possible. Also include samples of your writing when submitting a story proposal. Proposals should be no more than one page long.

Our columns include:
Living the Dream – an interview with an artisan or other independent business owner whose work is his/her passion
Weekender - a country destination (usually within Canada), including why it is of interest to lovers of the country, with activities, accommodations, shops and restaurants
Pursuits – a narrative describing classic country pastimes, including the activity/hobby itself, as well as how readers can get involved on their own
Gardens – spectacular outdoor grounds are always appealing to country readers, and we welcome pitches from green thumbs across the country
Country Happenings – exceptional events taking place in your town – or something you’ve found in your travels

As well, we welcome new ideas for columns.
Feature home story pitches should specify location, and should also include photographs of the house, both interior and exterior. We suggest standing in each room of the home and photographing outward to the four corners, in order to give an impression of the space.

Our writer’s fee is $1 per word, with a feature story being about 800 words. Fees for each story are set by the handling editor at the time of assignment. Invoices are paid on receipt of an acceptable draft. Receipts are required for any long-distance telephone calls or other pre-approved expenses. All expenses must be approved in advance by the handling editor.

Although we prefer to go through the editing process until we have a publishable piece, kill fees of 25 percent to 50 percent are negotiated for stories we assigned in good faith but consider not up to our standards. This sometimes results in rewrites done in-house or by an outside writer.

All Canadian Home & Country stories are fact-checked. We ask writers to provide us with a fact-checking copy of the manuscript, with research sources, including telephone numbers of people contacted, photocopies of written material, etc., detailed.

Thank you for your interest in Canadian Home & Country, and we hope to hear from you soon.