Overview
MagsBC and the PNW Creatives Summit present a webinar on pitching and submitting to magazines on Thursday, April 2, 2026.
Whether you’re a new or established writer or journalist, this virtual panel discussion will help you refine how you’re pitching and learn how to make your submission stand out in the overflowing slushpile.
Join renowned editors and writers for their best tips and tricks on pitching and submitting your work—including to general interest, news, literary magazines, and niche publications.
Panelists will discuss how to approach editors, how to structure your pitch, what makes a pitch or submission stand out, best practices for follow ups, and more. There will also be the opportunity for a Q&A at the end, so feel free to come prepared with the burning questions you’ve always wanted to ask an editor about pitching and submissions.
Time: 12-1 p.m. PT
(Other time zones: 1-2 p.m. MT | 3-4 p.m. ET)
Get your tickets for this event here.
Panelists
Omar Mouallem is a story consultant and multimedia producer working across film, podcasts, books and magazines. With two decades of experience in media, he has created award-winning documentaries, authored several bestselling books, served as editor-in-chief of Edify magazine and written for such publications as The New Yorker and Rolling Stone. He’s also the founder of the creative writing school PanU (formerly Pandemic University).
Chimedum Ohaegbu resides in Moh’kinstsis, colonially known as Calgary, Alberta. She is a three-time Hugo Award winner, and Room Magazine‘s managing editor. She’s a 2021 graduate of UBC’s Creative Writing Program (Bachelor of Fine Arts) and, as a playwright, the 2021 Black Arts Development Program. She loves insect facts, the theatre and stageplays, birds and magpies especially, and orchestral videogame music. Her work can be found in Strange Horizons, Arc Poetry Magazine, The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, the Year’s Best Dark Fantasy & Horror, Vol.3, and As the Earth Dreams: Black Canadian Speculative Stories, among others. She has been supported by the Alberta Foundation for the Arts and the Canada Council for the Arts to work on her first novel, about co-victims of divine disregard and the loneliness of liars.
Jackie Wong is a senior editor at The Tyee, a digital magazine for British Columbia. She edits the Weekender, The Tyee‘s weekend culture section. She has previously reported on social policy, drug policy and housing issues. She has also worked as a writing instructor, facilitator and as a program manager in the local non-profit community. Her writing has appeared in art books, alt weeklies, anthologies and magazines across North America.
Moderator
Jessica Key is a queer, disabled arts administrator living in East Vancouver, and subTerrain’s managing editor. In addition to her work at subTerrain, she is a Publishing Associate with Anvil Press. She has previously worked with Iceland Writers Retreat, the Vancouver International Burlesque Festival, and assisted many arts organizations with editorial, marketing, and writing. She has a Masters of Publishing from Simon Fraser University, and a Bachelor of Arts in Creative Writing from Vancouver Island University, where she was the Managing Editor of the school’s literary magazine Portal.
Please note that webinar attendees who are also going to the PNW Creatives Summit will have a chance to practice what they’ve learned.
