Public Writing Series: "An Introduction to Writing for Magazines and Op-Eds"

In this workshop, award-winning editor, writer, and poet Meghan O'Rourke explores what editors are looking for and addresses common misconceptions that scholars may have when writing for magazines and op-eds. 

If you have any questions, please email sal2.fas@yale.edu.

• Date: Monday, April 14
• Time: 12:00 PM -1:15 PM
• Location: Dow Hall, Room 100
• Presenter: Meghan O’Rourke, Editor of The Yale Review and Professor in the Practice at Yale, is a writer, poet, and editor.  O’Rourke was formerly an editor at The New Yorker, the culture editor of Slate, co-editor in chief of Double X, and the poetry editor of The Paris Review. She is the author of the New York Times Bestseller The Invisible Kingdom: Reimagining Chronic Illness (2022), which was nominated for a National Book Award; the bestselling memoir The Long Goodbye (2011); and three poetry collections, the most recent of which was named a top poetry book of 2017 by The New York Times. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times, and more. She is the recipient of numerous awards, including a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Radcliffe Fellowship, a Whiting Nonfiction Award, the May Sarton Poetry Prize, the Union League Prize for Poetry from the Poetry Foundation, and two Pushcart Prizes.
• Lunch will be provided
• Open to FAS ladder faculty
• Registration is closed