Pitch an Article: Write for Today's Marketplace

ESTELLE ERASMUS

Pitch an Article: Write for Today's Marketplace

ESTELLE ERASMUS

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In today’s competitive marketplace, it’s important to catch an editor's attention. It all starts with a pitch.

No matter what kind of article you want to write, a good pitch letter will get you noticed by an assigning editor.

This intensive two-week course will teach you how to craft a good pitch letter and do it well. Be ready to mine your life for ideas. Start thinking about a great spin on a topic or an unusual personal experience that you'd like to write about in class.

Improve your pitching game!

Join the Waitlist

Subscribe to be notified when this course opens for registration.

In today’s competitive marketplace, it’s important to catch an editor's attention. It all starts with a pitch.

No matter what kind of article you want to write, a good pitch letter will get you noticed by an assigning editor.

This intensive two-week course will teach you how to craft a good pitch letter and do it well. Be ready to mine your life for ideas. Start thinking about a great spin on a topic or an unusual personal experience that you'd like to write about in class.

Improve your pitching game!

Course outline

Course outline

This course includes written and video lectures, creative exercises, tips and tricks, examples of pitches that sold, and assignments to turn in for personalized feedback from your instructor.


Meet the instructor

Estelle Erasmus

Estelle Erasmus is an award-winning journalist, writing coach, and longtime ASJA member and an adjunct instructor at New York University and for Writer's Digest. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Independent, WIRED, Huffington Post Personal, AARP the Magazine, Vox, Insider, Next Avenue, GH, Marie Claire and more. Estelle's articles for the New York Times and Washington Post have gone globally viral (with more than 500 comments on her NYT piece). She has appeared on Good Morning America, Fox News with Ernie Anastos and has had her articles mentioned on "The View". She is co-host of the Freelance Writing Direct Podcast (found on iTunes and Spotify).

Her book WRITING THAT GETS NOTICED: How to Find Your Voice, Become a Better Storyteller, and Get Published from New World Library is available online and wherever books are sold.

Find her on Twitter: @EstelleSErasmus, Instagram: @EstelleSErasmus, TikTok @EstelleSErasmus and on Substack hestelleserasmus.substack.com

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