Events

A discussion on how your scholarship can be used to illuminate current political and cultural events as well as how those same events can be used in the process of strategic pitching. This is the second workshop in the Secrets of publishing series by Ed Simon. Simon is the Public Humanities Special Faculty in the […]

Websites such as Aeon, Lapham’s Quarterly, and JSTOR Daily, as well as more traditional journalistic publications from The Atlantic to The New Yorker, often publish narrative pieces that translate scholarship into long-form journalism. This workshop will focus on both the process of pitching and writing such articles.  This is the third workshop in the Secrets […]

A practical look at the world of trade publishing—agents, advances, royalties, contracts, marketing, and publicity. This is the fourth workshop in the Secrets of publishing series by Ed Simon. Simon is the Public Humanities Special Faculty in the English Department of Carnegie Mellon University and the founding editor of The Pittsburgh Review of Books. In […]

An overview of how trade book proposals differ from academic ones, with a focus on projects that balance scholarly depth with public appeal. This is the fifth workshop in the Secrets of publishing series by Ed Simon. Simon is the Public Humanities Special Faculty in the English Department of Carnegie Mellon University and the founding […]

This workshop will focus on the ways in which public scholars can use the tools of social media, amongst other methods, for promoting their writing and work so as to reach the widest audience. This is the sixth and final workshop in the Secrets of publishing series by Ed Simon. Simon is the Public Humanities […]