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CONTRIBUTE TO kooperative
koopérative is open, not as a policy but as a position.
Culture is not made from a single desk. A publication that believes this has to be written by more than one person.
Contributing here is not a form of access. It is participation in something being built. Two surfaces, two kinds of work, one underlying assumption: culture belongs to the people adding to it.
You don't need to be a professional of culture to contribute to it. You need something true to say.
What we publish :
On the editorial side: essays, interviews, criticism, visual narratives, reports, observations. The form matters less than what it carries.
On the love letters side: notes, confessions, half-formed observations. Writing that doesn't need to be finished, only honest. Writing that doesn't need a name, only relevance.
What we look for:
Work that starts somewhere specific. Language that has been paid attention to. A subject chosen because it deserves to be, not because a cycle demands it. The best submissions arrive from writers who needed to write them. That necessity tends to show. A strong pitch beats a strong portfolio.
A strong idea beats a strong pitch.
How we work :
Every submission gets read. Editing is engaged: the aim is to sharpen your voice, not replace it. Contributors are credited by name, with a bio and a link. Nothing is published without a final read from the author. Work is not altered to suit a trend, a sponsor, or a house tone. In return, write because the subject earns it. Write in a voice that is actually yours. Send something that could not have come from anyone else, even if it arrives without a name.
Contributing is not performance. It is presence: the willingness to add something that holds, signed or not.
For LOVE LETTERS :
Send the writing. No pitch, no context, no explanation. If it belongs, it will be published unsigned and untouched, and it will sit beside the named work without apology. The attribution promise is absolute: we will never identify you, to anyone, under any circumstance.
How to reach us :
EDITORIAL : two or three paragraphs. What the piece is, why it matters now, why you're the right person to write it. Finished drafts are welcome. LOVE LETTERS : send the fragment. Nothing else is needed. We try to respond within two weeks.
Send your work :
EDITORIAL : cooperation@kooperative.co
LOVE LETTERS : loveletters@kooperative.co
General : info@kooperative.co
If you have something to say and the language to say it, send it.
If what you have is smaller, truer, and carries no name,it belongs here too.