WHAT ARE YOU HUNGRY FOR?
An appetite. An obsession. An overwhelming desire for more.
For Issue 07, Moi turns its attention to HUNGER – the pleasures of wanting, the politics of consumption and the complicated relationship between desire and satisfaction.
Pitches close: 2nd December 2026
Hunger takes many forms. A feast for the senses. Food, sex, art, music and the things we devour. Feasting, opulence and excess. Oral fixation and compulsion. The comfort of consumption and the thrill of anticipation. The first bite, the last drop and everything deliciously messy in between.
We live in a culture of endless consumption that is simultaneously obsessed with controlling appetite. Who gets to indulge? Who is expected to abstain? And when did wanting more become something to apologise for?
We're interested in the psychology of appetite. The eroticism of eating. Food as love language. Gluttony as sin. The art of the banquet. The pleasure of anticipation. The last supper. Eating with your hands. Food as fetish. Sensory obsession. The sound of crunching. Hunger as desire and desire as hunger. The politics of consumption. The pleasure of being fed. The compulsion to consume. Comfort food. Emotional eating. The aesthetics of abundance. Decadence and decay. The things we crave but cannot have. The relationship between pleasure and guilt. The hunger for love, attention, power and connection. Recipes for pleasure. The things we devour and the things that devour us.
And everything we haven't thought of yet.
We're looking for essays, cultural criticism, reported features, personal stories, interviews, photography, illustration, art, poetry, fiction and recipes that approach hunger with curiosity, intelligence and pleasure.
What are we really hungry for? Can we ever have enough? And what happens when we give ourselves permission to want more?
BUT FIRST
We want your pitch to count.
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Read the brief and download our informative Pleasure Pitch Kit. Read our kit, develop your idea and send a succinct pleasure pitch via email to
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