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SUMMARY:How—and Where—To Pitch Your Personal Essays
DESCRIPTION:Learn how and where to submit your personal essays!\nPersonal essays are perhaps the genre that has the largest array of publication possibilities—literary journals\, newspapers\, magazines\, alumni publications\, and more all publish this form. That’s the good news! The challenge: finding the right publications for your story\, along with submission guidelines\, pay rates\, and style preferences. In this workshop\, you’ll learn where to find writer’s guidelines for popular newspaper and magazine essay columns (many with tips from the editor)\, how to create a submission plan to increase your success\, and the pros and cons of submitting essays to newspapers and magazines vs. literary journals. By the end\, you’ll have a list of resources and actionable tips to move your submissions forward. Give that essay on your hard drive (or in your journal) a chance to be published. \n\nLive video conference: This workshop will be held via our online video conferencing platform\, Zoom. You can view brief tutorials on using the platform here. On the start date or the day before\, participants will receive an email with login info (please check your spam if you don’t see it). \n\nIn this workshop you’ll:\n\nDiscover where and how to find publications that accept essays and their writers guidelines\nLearn the differences between submitting to\, and publishing in\, magazines\, newspapers and literary journals\nLeave with actionable tips and resources to submit essays\n\nTime requirements\n\nN/A\n\nMaterials\n\nAll reading materials will be provided.\n\nWho should take this workshop?\n\nThis workshop is designed for beginning to advanced essay writers looking to learn where and how to submit their essays for publication.\n\n\nIf you need an accommodation for this workshop\, please contact us at access@writer.org. We will attempt to fulfill all requests\, but advance notice is necessary to arrange for some accessibility services.
URL:https://writer.org/event/how-and-where-to-pitch-your-personal-essays-2/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:1 Session,Beginner/Intermediate Level,Nonfiction,Workshop,Zoom
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