April 15: Perfecting Your Pitch: Tips From Editors

The UC Irvine Literary Journalism Program & Center for Storytelling present:

"Perfecting Your Pitch: Tips From Editors”

A webinar that is free and open to the UCI community and the public on how to pitch personal essays, journalism and other nonfiction stories. Our expert guests will offer advice on pitches that worked, craft tips and stories they have edited. This event is part of an ongoing series by the Center for Storytelling highlighting BIPOC women in storytelling across mediums.

When: Thursday, April 15 11 a.m. PST (2 p.m. EST).

Register for the webinar here: http://bit.ly/UCIPitch
Moderated by Erika Hayasaki, professor in the Literary Journalism Program, with panelists:

—Angela Chen is a science journalist and the author of Ace: What Asexuality Reveals About Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex, which was named one of the Best Books of 2020 by NPR. Her reporting and essays have also appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Atlantic, National Geographic, Paris Review, Lapham’s Quarterly, and more. She is a contributing editor at Catapult Magazine.

Read these stories edited by Angela:
https://catapult.co/stories/surya-milner-the-legacy-of-malaga-island-maine-mixed-race-community
https://catapult.co/stories/katy-gero-language-art-science-computer-generated-poetry

—Vauhini Vara is a story editor at The New York Times Magazine and the secretary of Periplus, a mentorship collective serving BIPOC writers. She is also a freelance journalist, for The Times Magazine, The Atlantic, Businessweek, and elsewhere, and the author of The Immortal King Rao, a novel forthcoming from Norton in 2022. She previously worked as an editor and contributing writer at the New Yorker and as a reporter at the Wall Street Journal. Her work has won honors from the Rona Jaffe Foundation, the Asian American Journalists Association, and others.

Read these stories edited by Vauhini:
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/11/stealing-amazon-packages-age-nextdoor/598156/
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/02/magazine/why-i-started-wearing-head-wraps.html

—Neema Roshania Patel is the editor of The Lily at The Washington Post. She came to The Post in 2016 as an editor for the highly visual Select app before joining The Lily's founding team. Previously, she worked at WHYY, Philadelphia's NPR station, and Kiplinger.

Read stories edited by Neema:
https://www.thelily.com/49-of-republican-men-say-they-wont-get-vaccinated-these-wives-and-daughters-are-on-a-mission-to-change-their-minds/
https://www.thelily.com/read-12-womens-diaries-from-a-year-in-the-pandemic/?tid=more_from_lily
https://www.thelily.com/20000-day-cares-may-have-closed-in-the-pandemic-what-happens-when-parents-go-back-to-work/
https://www.thelily.com/cuomo-says-he-saw-himself-as-a-mentor-its-a-familiar-excuse-for-sexual-harassment-these-women-say/?tid=more_from_lily

—Genelle Levy is a writer and journalist who covers social inequality and social issues within pop culture. She is also a contributing editor at the multimedia company and creative nonfiction outlet Narratively. Her recent story on the secret history of Oakville, Ontario's Black history recently went viral, and she has contributed to Global News, USA Today, TeenVogue, Shondaland.com, Bustle and others.

Read stories edited by Genelle:
https://www.them.us/story/for-black-and-latino-men-aids-is-still-a-crisis
https://www.tvo.org/article/ontarians-should-know-more-about-the-black-history-of-oakville
https://hellogiggles.com/reviews-coverage/movies/mean-girls-mirror-to-pressures-teen-girls-face/