🎓 Pitches, Pomp & Circumstance 🎓

Graduation season is among us and I’m feeling all the emotions. I’m not leaving, but some of my friends are starting out in the big wide world and it’s bittersweet 🥹. But also, where did four years go?? How did we get here already?? But more importantly, where did all my family’s money go?? I lowkey blanked out in first-year, and I have no recollection of online school. Bewilderment is normal.

BUT WAIT! Before you scroll down! Editorial is putting together a supplement for Pride Month in June! In the next few weeks, we’ll be sending out a special issue pitch message over Discord and Facebook so stay tuned. If you’re not on either of those platforms yet with us, get on there to stay up to date on this, future issues and more!

Some things to keep in mind:

• To secure a pitch, respond to this email. I’m accepting writers on a first come first serve basis for all pieces, not including creative writing works.

• Are you a first-time writer? Please let me know in your email response.

• Once I confirm your pitch request, you can expect a follow-up email from me within 24 hours with more details on the piece.

• Consider conflict of interest implications when picking up a piece and ask me about this if you’re unsure.

• I LOVE COMMUNICATION! I will check in with you throughout the writing process but it’s also on YOU to tell ME if you’re feeling stressed about deadlines or unsure about how to proceed with anything. I gotcha <3

Our Campus: Sherryl Sewepagaham

Sherryl Sewepagaham is a UBC Faculty of Music PhD student. Of Cree-Dene ancestry, Sewepagaham is a music therapist who works with Indigenous patients in Geriatric and Palliative Care in Edmonton. She is also a composer of traditional and contemporary First Nations drum songs and was in the elementary school education system for over a decade teaching music and still teaches workshops. Faculty of Music Associate Professor Dr. Dylan Robinson has won the 2023 Friends of Canadian Music Award and has selected Sewepagaham to receive support as an emerging artist. ⁠Talk to Sewepagaham about her approach to music therapy and future composition plans.

800-1000 words

Due Friday, June 7 by 5pm

Reintroducing: our creative (non)-fiction corner!!

This is a repitch from the previous newsletter: I’m continuing Iman’s momentum in our creative writing department with a new initiative: every two months, I’ll be pitching out a new theme and your job is to stick to that theme in really any way shape, or form. We’re talking poems, personal essays and short stories. For May-June, I’m looking for creative non-fiction and fiction pieces about (*drum-roll*): birds! - Geese (personal fav), seagulls (personal op), pigeons, emus, penguins…surprise me. I will be taking multiple entries so feel free to write more than one piece. Interested writers will be looped into the initial pitch email with extra details.

Up to 1000 words

Due Friday, June 21 by 5pm

Bringing back Places to Go 

Yup, that’s right, I see you traveling. Tell me about your trip! I want to know where you’ve been, what you saw and did, what interesting interactions you had, first-hand impressions and changed preconceptions. I’m bringing back Places to Go personal essays and will be taking multiple entries all throughout summer.

800-1000 words

Due Friday, August 16 by 5pm