Are you a new or established local writer or journalist looking to refine the art of your pitch? Join us for a panel discussion by local magazine editors on pitching and submitting to magazines — including general interest, news, literary magazines, and niche publications. Panelists will discuss how to approach magazines, how to structure your pitch, what makes a pitch or submission standout, and more.
Hybrid events are held in person, you will also be able to watch it live streamed from our Youtube channel.
Location: Room C420, UBC Robson Square
Type: Panel
Sponsored by Magazine Association of BC
Moderator: Jessica Key, MagsBC and subTerrain Magazine
Panelists: Shashi Bhat, Event Magazine | Kristi Alexandra, Loose Lips | Vince Beiser, The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization (Riverhead Books)
About The Moderator
Jessica Key is a queer arts administrator living in East Vancouver. She’s the Managing Editor of subTerrain Magazine, as well as a Publishing Associate with Anvil Press and the Marketing Coordinator of Iceland Writers Retreat. She has a Master of Publishing from Simon Fraser University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing from Vancouver Island University, where she was the Managing Editor of the school’s literary magazine Portal. She has previously also worked with the Gustafson Distinguished Poets lecture series and for Ronsdale Press. She is currently serving as the chair of the board of directors for the Magazine Association of British Columbia, as well as sitting on Creative BC’s Magazine Advisory Committee. In her off-hours, she performs in, and promotes, Vancouver’s performing arts and dance communities.
About The Panelists
Shashi Bhat is the author of three books of fiction, including The Most Precious Substance on Earth (McClelland & Stewart), shortlisted for the 2022 Governor General’s Award, and a forthcoming story collection, Death by a Thousand Cuts (M&S, 2024). Her fiction has appeared in publications across Canada, including Best Canadian Stories, and she was the winner of the 2018 Journey Prize. She is the editor-in-chief of EVENT.
Kristi Alexandra is a the co-Editor in Chief at Loose Lips Magazine, and a freelance journalist, editor and proud Workin’ Mom. When she’s not at home watching Disney+ with her daughter, you can often find her taking in the city’s latest cinema at film festivals or patronizing the local music scene. Her passions are music, culture, travel, and film — but above all, writing about them.
Vince Beiser is an award-winning journalist and author of “The World in a Grain: The Story of Sand and How It Transformed Civilization.” The book has been translated into five languages, was a finalist for a PEN America award and a California Book Award, and spawned a TEDx talk. Vince is currently at work on a new book, “Power Metal”, about how the shift to renewable energy is, while urgently necessary, also causing environmental havoc, political upheaval and murder—and how we can do better. Vince has reported from over 100 countries, states, provinces, kingdoms, occupied territories, no man’s lands and disaster zones. He has exposed conditions in California’s harshest prisons, trained with troops bound for Iraq, ridden with the first responders to natural disasters, and hunted down other stories from around the world for publications including Wired, The Atlantic, Harper’s, Time, The Guardian, Mother Jones, Playboy, Rolling Stone, The Los Angeles Times, The Wall Street Journal, and The New York Times. Vince’s work has been honored by Investigative Reporters and Editors, the Society of Pro-fessional Journalists, the American Society of Journalists and Authors, the Colum-bia, Medill and Missouri Graduate Schools of Journalism, and many other institutions. He has three times been part of a team that won the National Magazine Award for General Ex-cellence, and shared in an Emmy for his work with the PBS TV series SoCal Connect-ed. He is also a grantee of the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting.
