Stay warm with these pitches 🔥

because they're FIRE!

AuthorAuthor

Ubyssey Features & Iman Janmohamed
November 10, 2023

thank you renée for sending this to me (and elena for being whimsical)

Hello features friends!

I hope everyone had a great week! Here are some features and creative non-fiction pitches. Details on how to pick them up are below.

Make sure to join the Ubyssey Discord for Ubyssey updates, and join the features Facebook group for last-minute pitches and meeting updates!

In the meantime, if you have a longform pitch or want to chat, you can reply to this email, message me on Discord or email me at [email protected].

1) If you're a first-time writer, let me know in your email.
2) Rank the pitches you’d like to take.
3) After you take a pitch, I’ll send you an email to ensure you have all the information you need before you get to work!
3) Be mindful of potential conflicts of interest. If you aren't sure, ask!
4) Tell me before the deadline if you can't complete a story in time. A really cool guy (me) once said that communication between writers and editors ensure a smooth pitch-to-publication process for everyone!

Places to Go: Pender Island

The Ubyssey’s annual Pender Island retreat was last weekend. If you attended, or have attended in the past, write 100–400 words about the island for a Places to Go compilation of a bunch of Pender experiences.

100–400 words by November 20.

Feature: Requiem for Vanier

The Campus Vision 2050 plan includes a Place Vanier expansion. This means some Vanier buildings will be torn down and replaced with other, newer more dense buildings. The plan said this will “significantly increase undergraduate student housing capacity, address seismic deficiencies and create a more active and vibrant pedestrian environment.”

Do some archive digging about the history of Place Vanier and student reception when the residence opened. Talk to UBC about why this is the best way to expand the residence, what impact this will have on student beds on campus and what this means for an evolving campus.

2000 words + archive clippings by December 10.