About Octavo
A slow magazine about the people who feed us.
2024
First issue
6,240
Subscribers
48
Countries
Octavo is an independent quarterly about food and the people who make it. Each issue follows a single word — Salt, Bread, Bitter — through kitchens, fields and markets until it means something new. We pay every contributor, print on uncoated paper in Lisbon and never put a paywall in front of a story.
Printed in Lisbon on uncoated 100g paper
Rua do Vale 22, 1200-470 Lisbon, Portugal
What we believe
01
We pay every contributor.
Writers, photographers, illustrators and cooks are paid on publication, at rates we print on the Pitch page.
02
No paywall, ever.
Every story is free to read online. The printed magazine is for people who want to keep it.
03
Printed close to home.
Uncoated paper from a mill in Spain, printed and posted from Lisbon. We know everyone by name.
Masthead
A small team in Lisbon and contributors in eleven cities.
Editor-in-chief
Marta Sousa
Deputy editor
Inês Carvalho
Art director
João Pires
Photo editor
Tomás Reyes
Food editor
Kwame Asante
Publisher
Octavo Press, Lisbon