Pitch Perfect: A Master of Craft Talk with Morgan Jerkins & Denne Michele Norris

ABOUT THE CRAFT TALK

Want to get published in a literary magazine or journal, but aren't sure how? Join editor and NY Times best selling author Morgan Jerkins and Electric Lit editor-in-chief Denne Michel Norris for a a Roots. Wounds. Words. Master of Craft Talk where they will give insider advice on how to pitch. They'll talk about the nuts and bolts of pitching and submitting—how to decide which publication/s to pitch to, how to make your pitch stand out, the structure of a good pitch letter, how to submit your piece after your pitch has been commissioned, and more!

This is a Master of Craft Talk you don't want to miss, especially if you're thinking about or new to freelance writing and you want to craft a pitch an editor will actually read.

Date & Time: Monday, January 24th, 2021 | 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM ET

Duration: 1.5 hours

Tuition: $30.00

Capacity: Limited. Seats are filled on a first-come, first-served basis.

Venue: Online. Link to the Craft Talk will be emailed in the afternoon leading up to it.

ABOUT THE MASTER STORYTELLERS:

Morgan Jerkins is the New York Times bestselling author of This Will Be My Undoing: Living at the Intersection of Black, Female, and Feminist in (White) America, which was longlisted for PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay and a Barnes & Noble Discover Pick, and Wandering In Strange Lands: A Daughter of the Great Migration Reclaims Her Roots. Her third book, Caul Baby: A Novel, was released by Harper Books in April 2021. She holds a BA in Comparative Literature from Princeton University and an MFA from the Bennington Writing Seminars. A recently named Forbes 30 under 30 Leader in Media and a 2021 ASME Next Award winner, Jerkins regularly teaches at Columbia University’s School of the Arts in the Nonfiction department. Born and raised in Southern New Jersey, she’s currently based in Harlem and at work on television and film projects.

Denne Michele Norris is the editor-in-chief of Electric Literature. A 2021 Out100 Honoree, her writing has been supported by MacDowell, Tin House, VCCA, and the Kimbilio Center for African American Fiction, and appears in McSweeney's, American Short Fiction, and ZORA. She co-hosts the critically acclaimed podcast Food 4 Thot, and is hard at work on her debut novel. Follow her on Twitter and IG @thedennemichele.

Partial and full scholarships available. To inquire, email Info@RootsWoundsWords.org. Explicitly state which scholarship (partial or full) you’re interested in.

Closed captioning is provided. Like all RWW offerings, this space is for Black, Indigenous, Latinx/e, Asian, and other Storytellers of Color only. BIPOC Storytellers are centered here, exclusively.

This program was funded in part by Humanities New York with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions or recommendations expressed in this program do not necessarily represent those of the National Endowment for the Humanities.

This Master of Craft Talk is in partnership with Black & Pink National, a prison abolitionist organization dedicated to abolishing the criminal punishment system and liberating LGBTQIA2S+ people and people living with HIV/AIDS who are affected by that system through advocacy, support, and organizing.