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Working: Pitching Fiction

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🗓️ 6 October 2022

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

On this edition of Working Overtime, hosts Isaac Butler and June Thomas reply to a listener who wants some advice on pitching fiction to literary magazines. For help, Isaac and June turn to J. Robert Lennon, a novelist and short story writer who is also the editor of EPOCH, the literary magazine associated with Cornell University. In the interview, Lennon describes the pitching process for EPOCH and explains what he and his colleagues are looking for when they review submissions. He also offers advice to anyone who might be considering pitching their fiction. Do you have a question about creative work? Call us and leave a message at 304-933-9675, or email us at working@slate.com. Podcast production by Kevin Bendis and Cameron Drews. Check out Remote Works here: https://link.chtbl.com/remoteworks?sid=podcast.WORKING Thanks Avast.com! Learn more about Avast One at Avast.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Welcome back to working overtime. The Bob Weir of practical advice to regular workings,

0:53.4

Jerry Garcia. I'm Isaac Butler. And I'm June Thomas. June, there's a lot going on in the

0:59.6

world today. There's a lot going on in the nation that you have moved to today. I'm going to ignore

1:03.6

all of that and ask you what cultural thing have you been digging lately? Is there a book or TV

1:09.1

show or something that is giving you life as the kids I guess used to say? So a couple of weeks

1:14.3

ago for an episode of working that has already aired. I spoke with writer Casey Parks about her

1:21.9

amazing new book, Diary of Amisfit, a memoir and a mystery. I read that book. And like many of the

1:30.0

books that we read for, you know, to do an interview, I kind of went through it a bit. I was under

1:34.5

a little, you know, I was under the gun time wise. Really loved it. And it keeps coming back to me.

1:40.0

Really stuck with me. I think it's really well done book. Very just very smart, very well structured.

1:45.6

One of those books that just returns to your thoughts. So you know, this week I was reading a

1:51.9

review of a book about encyclopedias. And I immediately thought about just a very short

1:57.2

section in her book. Maybe just a few paragraphs about wanting encyclopedias. And that's a good

2:03.3

sign. I think that's a sign that a book is really, it's penetrated your noggin. What about you?

2:08.6

Yes, especially if you have to read it in the like speed reading way sometimes do before,

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