50 calls for journalism/writing pitches (December 19, 2022)
The first episode of the WEW podcast just hit the inter-waves: an interview with NYT/Nat Geo/T+L travel photographer and writer Lola Akinmade. Check it out here.
Separately, December has always been a bit of wash-out month for me. At school it was snowy and cold and end-of-term anticipation ate up everything else. At university ... well most months were a washout tbh, until just before final exams. At work, that sense of an end of something approaching pervades much of the day. Productivity slips, even self-care takes a tumble. I drink more, eat worse, and treat this month, not as if it were the end of another year, that isn't in fact really the end of anything, but as if it were the final end, an ending to end all endings, where all plans, ambitions and any need to do anything that anticipates some kind of future are unnecessary, even ignorant. Then, at the brink of vomiting up my own self-indulgence, the whip-like winds of January strike, and I join gyms and quit booze forever and eat salads four times a day. I have survived this heave-ho December-January onslaught for many years and no doubt, despite the promises I re-remake, will continue to indulge, purge and repeat for more to come.
This week’s calls for pitches below.
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