The Pitch

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Boissoneault, whose proposal won the J. Anthony Lukas Work-in-Progress Award in 2024, breaks down how she wrote it

The author of “Bad Company” on the merits of waiting until she was seized by an obsession and couldn’t let go

As anti-DEI and anti-trans language gets battled in court, the grant writer offers advice on how journalists, writers, and artists should proceed.

As I officially join as Storyboard editor, a question about landing your big break.

Author Kim Cross annotates the lengthy proposal that landed a contract for the book that revisits the 1993 Polly Klaas kidnapping

The narrative journalist details the upside of rejection, the importance of timing, the value of a good agent and the reality of advances

Editor Seyward Darby: "I definitely want people who are willing to strip a story down to its basics and figure out how to build it back up."

How a longtime contributor and a top editor at The New York Times Magazine work together to create award-winning journalism

Pitching a story you want to pursue is not the time to hide your light under that proverbial bushel — or to sell what you can't deliver