The workshop

Keen to get your work published but not sure how to approach a national magazine or newspaper? Or perhaps you’d like to polish up your pitching style or break into a new genre of publications? 

This 90-minute workshop with freelance features writer Jessica Johnson offers a toolbox of tried and trusted techniques to getting your work published and includes writing exercises along with a break for coffee/tea and croissants. The workshop covers;

- how to make your ideas sing in just a few paragraphs   

- the do’s and don’ts of pitching

- knowing your publication – how to think like an Editor

- how to deal with rejection (and thrive after it)

- an open q+a on freelance writing life, plus more…

Fee: £5 (coffee, tea and croissants not included in ticket price)

About Jessica

After working on local magazines in Grimsby, Jessica moved to London where she worked as Features Writer for WI Life, the membership magazine for the Women’s Institute, before moving to monthly consumer title, Coast, where she worked as Features Editor.

Since going freelance in 2015, Jessica has written for a range of national magazines and newspapers including The Guardian, Observer Homes, National Geographic Traveller, BBC Good Food, The Simple Things, Psychologies, Arts Society, Coast and Riverford Organic. 

Jessica is a member of The Guild of Food Writers and author of The Women’s Institute’s Vintage Teatime, a compilation of old-fashioned recipes re-worked for a modern day afternoon tea.