Friday: 14th November 2008

A mixed few days in my continuing quest to get as published as possible; I received this email from Steve Wright at Venue:


Hi Jake,

Thanks v much for your email. I'm afraid I have a pretty strong reviewing team in place at the minute, and am not looking for any other writers in the immediate future: but I will keep you on file. Meanwhile, if you are interested in work experience at Venue, feel free to email Mike White, the Assistant Editor here, on m.white@venue.co.uk. Send a CV and some examples of your writing...

Thanks Jake, sorry not to be more help this time and very good luck with your writing,

Steve


So that was a bit disappointing. I wrote and thanked Steve and I’m mulling over writing to Mike White, although as I’ve previously mentioned, I’m not that interested in doing work experience for a magazine, but it’s nice to know that there’s still opportunities there, and if I fail to find work experience elsewhere then I’ll certainly be contacting Mike.

On the other hand I’ve had a little more luck with regards to my ‘chugger’ article. After some meticulous research, I eventually found a magazine that may well be suited for the piece. It’s called Community Care magazine and they’ve already published several articles examining the issue. I did a bit of digging around and found the online masthead of the magazine and decided to call the writer of an article defending chuggers. His name is Adam McCulloch. He was averagely helpful, and seemed genuinely interested in the idea and told me to send the finished article to Derren Hayes, who will then decide whether it’s good enough to be published. I have begun writing the article and I’ll workshop it next week to find out whether it’s suitable.