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Topic: food articles
| Author | Message |
| nycflxer | Posted – 3/30/2006 11:05:35 AM | show profile What are some good beginner markets for food writing? Any good books, advice, places to start for a wannabe food writer? Also, has anyone written for Gilded Fork - they don't pay, but would they count as a quality clip? Thanks for any help. |
| globetrotter78 | Posted – 3/30/2006 5:01:28 PM | show profile Check out this website...hopefully it will give you some ideas about getting published as a food writer. Just curious...what do you want to write restaurant reviews, recipes? http://www.freelancewriting.com/content/detail-food_writing_newsletter-1863-128.html |
| globetrotter78 | Posted – 3/30/2006 5:03:05 PM | show profile Also check out www.food-writing.com. |
| foodlit | Posted – 3/30/2006 10:32:23 PM | show profile Try querying your local papers, pitching a story idea and attaching a spec clip. That's how I got my first few assignments and sold the spec piece! :) Pam |
| nycflxer | Posted – 3/31/2006 9:55:53 AM | show profile hi - thanks for the helpful websites and advice. i'm actually not super interested in writing restaurant reviews - more like food essays, recipes, etc. but a couple of the books i've read so far seem to emphasize restaurant reviews...is this the usual way to enter food writing, or is it up to you as a writer? i will be taking classes later in the summer, this is just for some preliminary info to submit a food essay that i have. thanks! |
| Ms. Write | Posted – 3/31/2006 1:24:08 PM | show profile Try breaking in to the ''front-of-book'' section of food magazines--editors are more willing to test unproven writers there, because the articles are shorter. Study a few back issues of Bon App, Saveur, whatever mag you're interested in, and send a few ideas to the editor of that section. If you do well there, you'll have someone who'll go to bat for you when you want to try pitching a feature. |
