🍞🔥 Pitches to keep you toasty 🔥🍞

Hi everyone! Welcome to the last pitch list of 2024! I don’t know about you, but I’m SO excited to lay in bed with a cup of tea and fall asleep to my Spotify wrapped this weekend. I LIVE for the beginning of December for this.

Here are a few announcements:

• From December 29 to January 5, I will be away on a trip and will not be attending to emails. For urgent questions or concerns please email me before this period.

• We are having our last weekly features meeting next Wednesday in the boardroom. We’re watching a fun Christmas short film over hot chocolate and treats!

• As usual, we have our general meeting this Friday at 4:00 p.m. in the office, room 2208 in the Nest. Come and say hi!

And now for some pitches. Hope to see you soon!

All the best,

— Fiona

Our Campus: Tara Mayer

Dr. Tara Mayer is an associate professor of teaching at the UBC Institute for Gender, Race, Sexuality and Social Justice, as well as the chair for the Sciences Po Dual Degree Program. She explores material and aesthetic exchanges between India, Britain and France and she has served as a research consultant for international exhibitions on Indian art, Orientalism, and European portraiture. She is also a research associate at the Museum of Anthropology. Talk to Mayer to learn more about her work with the GRSJ institute and Sciences Po, her values regarding exhibition research consulting and how the disciplines she studies inform each other.

800-1000 words

Due Monday, January 6, 2025

Our Campus: Tim Herron

Tim Herron is the Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability’s engagement and events manager. Herron has worked at UBC since 2012, but has held many positions elsewhere, from teaching kindergarten to carpentry to working backstage on large rock shows and raves. Talk to Herron about how and why he moved from one career to the next and how what he’s taken away from each of his positions informs his approach to engaging the UBC community.

800-1000 words

Due Monday, January 6, 2025

Our Campus: Christopher Hammerly

Dr. Christopher Hammerly is the principal investigator for the UBC Experimental Linguistics and Fieldwork Lab and is an assistant professor in the department of linguistics. Hammerly uses computational models and experimental tasks to understand the cognitive representations and processes underpinning knowledge of word and sentence structure and his work often focuses on understanding and documenting his ancestral language, Ojibwe. Talk to Hammerly about how and why he got into this interdisciplinary field and how a combined cognitive and computational approach to linguistics can promote language preservation and help us understand similarities across languages.

800-1000 words

Due Monday, January 6, 2025

Our Creative Non-fiction Corner is back!

I pitch out creative non-fiction writing themes monthly. If the theme interests you, send me an email with the following information:

1. Your full name and pronouns

2. The structure of your piece (i.e. poem OR personal essay OR short story)

3. A brief description of what your piece is about.

If I feel your pitch fits into the theme well, does not relate too closely to other already approved pitches and coincides with what we publish at the paper, the pitch is yours! I’ll accept up to 3 pitches. Afterward I’ll have to decline submissions for logistical purposes but there’s always next month!

In the spirit of the holidays, this month’s writing theme is: tradition! Feel free to interpret this however you please (ex. your favourite holiday ritual, how you preserve practices etc.) The theme is purposefully broad to give writers the liberty to get creative!

>1000 words

Due Monday, January 6, 2025