The Secret Lives of Magazine Stories: Pitches and Submissions
Event Details
Crafting the perfect pitch or submission takes practice. You need a good idea, a timely hook, a unique angle and a persuasive email. To unravel the components
Event Details
Crafting the perfect pitch or submission takes practice. You need a good idea, a timely hook, a unique angle and a persuasive email. To unravel the components of success, we’ll hear from three editors about the best ideas to ever parachute into their inbox. We’ll also hear a little bit about what they are dreaming about when they open up something new—from perfect formatting to wild surprises.
Speakers for this event
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Elisabeth de Mariaffi
Elisabeth de Mariaffi
Elisabeth de Mariaffi is the critically acclaimed author of four books of fiction, including the Scotiabank Giller Prize-nominated short story collection How to Get Along with Women (2012), and the novels The Devil You Know (2015) and Hysteria (2018), both of which were named Globe and Mail Best Books of the year, and shortlisted for the Thomas Raddall Atlantic Fiction Prize, and most recently, The Retreat (2021) which won the NL Book Award for Fiction. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Guelph, and has taught fiction and screenwriting at UBC, Memorial University, and the Humber School for Writers. Elisabeth is currently on faculty in the MFA (Fiction) at the University of Kings College. She makes her home in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, where she is Executive Director at Riddle Fence: A Journal of Arts and Culture.
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Kirstyn Brown
Kirstyn Brown
Kirstyn Brown brings over 15 years of editorial experience across both consumer and trade media. After earning a BA in Journalism from Toronto Metropolitan University (formerly Ryerson), she began her career interning at magazines while working in catering to pay the bills. Her break came as a fact checker at Oxygen Magazine, where she later became a section editor. She went on to co-create STRONG Fitness Magazine, a women’s health and fitness publication, serving as Editor-in-Chief for nine years. Today, Kirstyn is the editor of Plant and MRO, two trade publications from Annex Business Media serving Canada’s manufacturing sector.
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Sarah Henstra
Sarah Henstra
SARAH HENSTRA is the author of the bestselling novel The Lost Tarot. Her 2018 novel The Red Word won Canada’s Governor General’s Literary Award for Fiction. Sarah is also author of the young adult novels Mad Miss Mimic and We Contain Multitudes. Sarah holds a PhD in English and is a professor at Toronto Metropolitan University. She is Editor-in-Chief of TMU’s creative writing journal, White Wall Review.
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