Description

In the How to Pitch Editors masterclass we'll be opening up our folders of story pitches, email correspondences, and expensively framed acceptance letters. We'll talk about generating pitch ideas, building a portfolio, talking to editors, sending cold pitches, developing editorial relationships, networking, and financing a freelance career. This is a two-day jump start for new and mid-career freelancers.

Ben Mauk is a full-time freelance writer. He writes feature articles and essays for The New York Times Magazine, Harper's Magazine, Virginia Quarterly Review, The Guardian, The London Review of Books, and The New Yorker online, among other publications.

Mitch Speed is a Canadian writer based in Berlin. Since 2010, his art criticism and essays have appeared in Artforum, Frieze, Art Review, Camera Austria, Turps, Momus, Canadian Art, and other publications. He is the author of Fiorucci Made Me Hardcore (2019), a study of Mark Leckey’s video artwork of the same name, written for Afterall Books’ One Work series. In late 2024, Floating Opera Press will publish his book 'Undead Tongues: Art in the Nostalgia Gyre,' a book-length essay exploring the question of art's relevance, in an age when time and experience are warped by capitalism and technology.

This class is in English.

 

Details

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How to Pitch Editors (In-Person)
Saturdays, June 1st & 8th
11:00am - 16:00 with lunch break
Instructor: Mitch Speed
Location: Kreuzberg, Berlin
Cost: 170€

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Testimonials for How to Pitch Editors

 

Best in the business...

“The instructors at the Berlin Writers' Workshop are among the best in the business: brilliant writers, thorough editors, thoughtful teachers, and insightful critics. That all this literary talent has descended on Berlin is tremendously exciting.”

— Carmen Maria Machado, author, Her Body and Other Parties

Impassioned and insightful...

"Ben Mauk is an impassioned and supremely insightful reader. His smart and attentive takes on my stories always left me with a clearer, more confident sense of my own strengths as a writer and helped me understand the collection I was building."

— Mark Mayer, author, The Aerialists

Enormously helpful...

"Whether offering me practical guidance about how to restructure a story, recommending a book or essay that I might find useful, or simply encouraging me to keep going, their intelligence and mentorship have helped me and my writing enormously."

— Ariel Lewiton, Director of Marketing and Publicity, Sarabande Books

 

Student review:

"The Berlin Writers' Workshop is exactly what Berlin has been in need of. Our workshop was brilliantly informative without feeling like a lecture, and our tutor was very supportive."

— Kate

Student review:

The How to Pitch Editors class was fantastic. I gained insights into how to transition to writing for magazines, including crafting stronger pitches. Ben's thoughtful (and humorous) instruction and real world examples of what pitches do/do not work were exactly what I needed to take my nonfiction writing to the next level.

— Caitlin

Student review:

Ben was extremely helpful and informative on all subjects, and I appreciated that he brought real pitches from real work experiences. The environment was professional but not so advanced that I felt intimidated. All in all, it was super helpful.

— Francesca

 
 

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