While there are a plethora of think tanks focusing on social issues, and several for the environment and sustainability, there are precious few for animals either domestic or wild. Inspired in large part by the work of Mary Midgley, PAN Works formed as a think tank to serve as a global platform investigating “why animals matter” and what that means for the “mixed community” of people, animals and nature.
This makes it particularly important that we reach out with public facing essays that are accessible to all. Our Medium column does just that.
Submit a Pitch!
We hope you’ll find the content stimulating to your walk in the world, and we look forward to being in dialogue with you. To this end, we also invite you to submit pitches of an essay you would like to write for this column.
We are particularly interested in hearing from people in the “animal space” — professors, graduate students and professionals who care about and/or may work directly with wild and domesticated animals. The focus should be the normative aspects of how humans relate to wild and domesticated animals. This might take many forms, such as an essay on a human-animal conflict, an exploration of our worldviews of animals, or an artistic expression of people, animals and/or nature. Animal wellbeing, compassionate conservation, the moral panic over cats, multispecies justice, and rewilding are a few of the topics we’ve covered. These are examples only, and do not delimit what authors may share in this column.
Essays should be 800 to 1,500 words long and written in fluent English of a conversational tone. Long form manuscripts are possible when warranted. First person is welcomed when appropriate. We use open sources images from unsplash and other sources for illustration and visual interest. In text links are the primary means of citation, as is a list of further reading at the end of the essay. We follow APA Style.
To submit a pitch, please be in contact with our associate editor Nicole Roberts. They will review your pitch and be in contact thereafter. In your pitch, include the following information.
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Your name
Your email
Organization or freelance
Webpage or website
Your working title for the column
A summary of your main point in 250 words or less
Assuming your pitch is accepted, the workflow is as follows — pitch submission, pitch acceptance, submission of full article, editing, and final publication.