Pitch Fest 2026 at PNW Creatives Summit
Have the perfect idea for a magazine, and need 10 minutes of one-on-one time to pitch it? Here’s your chance: Connect with editors & magazine professionals.
Have the perfect idea for a magazine, and need 10 minutes of one-on-one time to pitch it? Here’s your chance: Connect with editors & magazine professionals.
The PNW Creatives Summit program: designed to spark ideas, deepen conversations & build meaningful connections across the Pacific Northwest creative community.
2-day virtual conference, the theme: Caretaking. Engagement journalism & community, learning & skills; plus a pitchapalooza event for freelancers & editors
Opportunity: EVENT is hiring a magazine intern for summer 2026, P/T 10 hours/week, 20 weeks, $22/hour + 4% vacation pay, other benefits, apply by Mar 31
March 22, in person in Toronto by Issues Magazine Shop, live stream, a one–day conference that celebrates the people, ideas, and stories shaping magazines today
Conferences and professional development of interest to the magazine industry, journalists and writers in Canada, the U.S. and beyond, updated Mar 10, 2026
Interview: Jim Barr & Jeremy Derksen about the story behind the three Seekers Magazines, the change they like to see in the magazine industry; thoughts on AI.
On publishing a small niche magazine & collaboration, the key element to future success in the magazine industry. Favourite quote: “Make your own momentum.”
How Principl(ed) magazine contributes to the BC school system. Sandra Murphy’s favourite quote: “A word after a word after a word is power.” ― Margaret Atwood
Favourite quote: “If you can see yourself doing anything else, do that instead.” — Scott Steedman
Favourite quote: “Life is like playing a violin solo in public and learning the instrument as one goes on.” — Samuel Butler (1835-1902)
MagsBC member magazine amplification initiative to spotlight the people, stories, and ideas behind all our MagsBC publications. Details and prompts to come.
“We just really try and give each other the support and the space we need.”
“In the words of RuPaul’s Drag Race …, our own childhood pastime lays the foundation for so many of our shared skills”
“The message is simple: get off the phone and leave the computer behind and experience for yourself what the world has to offer.”
Conferences and professional development of interest to the magazine industry, journalists and writers in Canada, the U.S. and beyond, updated Jan 7, 2026
Sunday, November 30 has been declared BC Magazine Day 2025! Celebrate and help spread the word on your social media channels and newsletters.
Join MagsBC Nov 25 at SFU’s Burnaby Mountain campus to celebrate BC Magazine Day 2025, make your own zine at our DIY Zine Station at the English Student Union.
Conferences and professional development of interest to the magazine industry, journalists and writers in Canada, the U.S. and beyond, updated Sep 17, 2025
Conferences and professional development of interest to the magazine industry, journalists and writers in Canada, the U.S. and beyond, updated July 25, 2025
Magazine Publishers Market Fund 2025/26, attend magazine fairs, conferences, events, promote your publication in foreign & domestic markets, rolling deadline
Opportunity: editorial intern, La Scena Musicale, $18/h, 18 hrs/wk, 25 weeks, July 7 – Dec 26, 2025, Montreal, work-from-home, must be a resident of BC.
Conferences and professional development of interest to the magazine industry, journalists and writers in Canada, the U.S. and beyond, updated Mar 26, 2025
Magazines Canada tariff resources and survey results, impact on the Canadian magazine industry. BC government’s tariff response measures to US tariffs.
Conferences and professional development of interest to the magazine industry, journalists and writers in Canada, the U.S. and beyond, updated Jan 7, 2025