How I pitch editors in 2021

Stories not topics, the occasional curveball and less worrying about unanswered emails

Illustration: Léo Hamelin

I recently realised that I’ve been pitching stories since 2008 (!) 

I tried to dig out my very first pitch, but I couldn’t find it because it seems that back then, my email subject lines consisted of “article” and “review”. I doubt I even knew that what I was doing was called pitching.   

A lot has changed since then (my email sub…