The Pitch Clinic: You Pitch. I reply.
(Alternative name: ‘Jessica Reeds it’) [Thanks Arwa Mahdawi]
UPDATE: THE FIRST PITCH AND FEEDBACK IS HERE
I’ve been reading Query Shark for years. It’s a classic: a blog written by an anonymous literary agent who reviews submissions in public, telling hopeful novelists what is wrong with their book blurb. Sometimes it’s savage criticism, often it’s tremendous fun. I learn from it all the time.
(It’s a good thing I don’t want to write a book, because querying is hard).
I thought I could start the same concept, only with features writing. You send me a pitch, I pick one or two a week {so don’t hate me if I can’t answer all}, and I critique it in public, right here (but your name will be taken off).
Any takers? Let’s go! Email jessica.reed at theguardian dot com with the subject PITCH CLINIC.
