Pitching Your Personal Essay Zoom Seminar with Samantha Ladwig, Saturday, August 9th, 2025

Saturday, August 9th, 2025 Live Seminar Via Zoom 12:00PM CST – 3:00PM CST Any questions about this class? Use the Chat Button (lower left) to talk with us. Samantha Ladwig is an essayist and book reviewer based on a small island in the Salish Sea. Her writing has been published by The Cut, Literary Hub, Vulture, Bustle, Vice, BUST, Real Simple, HuffPost, and Vox, among many others. She is a two-time Centrum Artist in Residence ('24/'25) and a Tin House Winter Workshop '25 alum. A former bookstore owner, Samantha is currently working on a memoir-in-essays. Have you written a personal essay but aren't sure where or how to submit it? This one-day workshop will go over the ins and outs of finding and pitching your completed or in-progress work to magazines. After all, pitching to magazines is no easy task. Repackaging your essay in a way that will set you apart from all of the other writers submitting their work is an art. In this one-day workshop, students will read pitch examples - bo