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40 calls for journalism/writing pitches (June 5, 2023)
Remember that you are alive only for a short while, and as time expands your life proportionally shrinks, which logically means - if time is infinite …
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James Durston
50 calls for journalism/writing pitches (May 29, 2023)
This evening we tied one end of some floss to a mini drone, the other end to my son’s wobbly tooth, and with multiple full batteries launched into…
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James Durston
50 calls for journalism/writing pitches (May 22, 2023)
Martin Amis wrote and said many excellent things. One that regularly recurs to me went something like this: If the world appears to be at its lowest…
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James Durston
50 calls for journalism/writing pitches (May 15, 2023)
I once wrote an article titled ‘In defense of rainy days’, and my thoughts often return to it like they did yesterday, when we were kept mostly indoors…
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James Durston
50 calls for journalism/writing pitches (May 8, 2023)
A few weeks ago when the weather was more restrained like a sleepy lamb, and less crazy hot and tempestuous like an enraged cat, I went for a hike with…
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James Durston
50 calls for journalism/writing pitches (May 1, 2023)
My daughter, who turns nine tomorrow, had a play date with a friend from school for the first time, and could barely breathe for telling me, on her…
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James Durston
50 calls for journalism/writing pitches (April 24, 2023)
I live on one of Hong Kong's outlying islands. It is a world apart from the neon-lit, skyscraper-laden Hong Kong depicted in every picture, postcard and…
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What Editors Want
What Editors Want
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