{"id":107840,"date":"2019-02-14T12:35:18","date_gmt":"2019-02-14T17:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lithub.com\/?page_id=107840"},"modified":"2023-11-09T11:47:25","modified_gmt":"2023-11-09T16:47:25","slug":"how-to-pitch-lit-hub","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/lithub.com\/how-to-pitch-lit-hub\/","title":{"rendered":"How To Pitch Lit Hub"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We&#8217;re looking for stories about<\/span><b> literary life and culture<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">. We\u2019re interested in the ways that books or their authors fit into the culture at large, and we enjoy rigorous criticism for a general audience. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We\u2019ve published essays on <\/span><b>craft<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, those that veer into <\/span><b>criticism<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, and <\/span><b>reported pieces <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">on literary issues. If you\u2019re pitching a <\/span><b>personal essay<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> on writing life, it helps to describe how an incident in your life speaks to larger issues in the literary world. We\u2019re also looking for stories that talk about <\/span><b>upcoming nonfiction books<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and address the broader cultural issues around them by adding your own analysis or reporting. Check out some of our favorite pieces from last year <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/lithub.com\/our-favorite-literary-hub-stories-from-2018\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">here<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Send us a <\/span><b>brief (2-3 paragraph)<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> description of the story and give us an idea of what makes it interesting, why it matters now, and what perspective, analysis, or reporting you will bring to it. The pitch is a great place to give us a sense of your writing style and tone. Include links to previous work, if you have them. It\u2019s okay to send us full, finished essays, if you have them, with a brief description of the piece in an email.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We <strong>do not accept<\/strong> original poetry or fiction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Send your ideas to <a href=\"mailto:info@lithub.com\">info@lithub.com<\/a>. W<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">e read everything we receive. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We&#8217;re looking for stories about literary life and culture. We\u2019re interested in the ways that books or their authors fit into the culture at large, and we enjoy rigorous criticism for a general audience. We\u2019ve published essays on craft, those that veer into criticism, and reported pieces on literary issues. If you\u2019re pitching a personal [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P5rKFr-s3m","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/107840"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lithub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lithub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/107840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lithub.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}