Pitch Writer

I’m looking for narrative feature pitches for Slate Magazine!

I joined Slate this January with a mandate to bring in longform, and in the time since, I’ve edited a true crime yarn with a major third-act twist, an investigation into the radicalization of Southern grandmas in a deep-red Alabama, the Lindy West profile heard round the internet, a hilarious, thoughtful report on the rise of penis injections, and more. (These, and more from my brilliant colleagues, here)

These stories are, as you can see, extremely different!! But they have the same baseline: A good Slate feature takes readers on a ride, challenges their assumptions, and needs at least 3000 words to be told right. It's also, crucially, fun. Slate's a good place for an idea that's too voicey to work anywhere else, that's still supported by rigorous reporting. First-person welcome, white-whale ideas encouraged.

Pitch me (not in the Linkedin DMs please!) at [click apply].