We're on a mission to find the best moto content. Send us an email with ideas, we'd love to hear from you!

We welcome original submissions from, or about, women riders from all corners of the globe. Relatable and relevant – fierce content with a feminist edge.

Hairpin Journal is a website and soon-to-be-released global print magazine. We are not here to appeal to the masses, so we aren’t safe and conservative. We’re here for one audience only – women who ride and women who love the road.

This isn’t a dry magazine concerned with the scientific presentation of facts and no soul. It’s also not written in icing sugar - sickly sweet, cutesy blog content that either has no real opinion or contains the bastardised opinion of real writers whose work has been savaged. Harpin has a real voice. It’s a cool, older girlfriend. The person who tells you amazing new things and you have no idea how they found out themselves. Effortlessly funny, thoroughly researched and with a pace and rhythm that’s interesting and exciting. Hairpin can be cheeky, a little irreverent, but never forced and never grotesque.

"Features will include rider interviews, profiles, opinions, reviews, motorcycle adventure articles, photo essays, moto themed fashion shoots, editorial artwork, illustrations, creative writing, and film/video projects."

Hairpin will always take a respectful approach to photography. Motorcycle culture, especially through the 1980s and 1990s, was notorious for producing highly posed and highly sexualised images of women, without considering them as part of the culture. Hairpin approaches photography from a neutral point of view. Not to reverse the wrongs of the past, but to represent women as they always should have been. Imagery can range from candid, documentary style photography through to highly arranged, artfully posed, fashion photography. Images should show a sense of adventure, freedom and whimsy. Real people. Smiles optional. Real interaction. Interesting details and abstraction. And of course real documentation.

For all contributors, both finished work and pitches are welcome. If sending only a pitch, please include samples of previous work.

WRITERS

Email your submissions here with all your relevant details in the form of a standard .doc or .rtf attachment.

PHOTOGRAPHERS & ILLUSTRATORS

Email your submissions here with all your relevant details in the form of lo-res jpeg attachments, pdfs and/or links to websites, flickr or similar file-sharing sites.

INSTAGRAM PHOTO SUBMISSION

Email your submissions here with all your relevant details (including any personal websites you'd like us to link to) in the form of a lo-res image. Please be aware that some cropping might occur in the posting process. All work will be credited if run, so don't forget to include your Instagram handle, your full name and your website if you have one. Note that you're more than welcome to regram the shots once they've been posted, with a link back to @hairpinjournal.

HOW TO REACH US

To get in touch regarding written content, contact hello@hairpinjournal.com and one of our editors will get back to you. For image based content, contact art director, Charlie McKay: charlie@hairpinjournal.com

We look forward to hearing from ya!