How to Pitch and Write Long-Form Stories for Publication:
A Feature Writing Workshop
Saturday 2 August, 9:30 - 12:30pm
Trust Waikato,
4 Little London Lane
$30 cost, registration required via website.
Venetia Sherson will guide you through the process of feature writing including structure, tone, subject matter, sources and audience analysis. She will share ideas on how to pitch your story to a commissioning editor.
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​The workshop costs $30 and includes morning tea. Registration required.
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The Trust Waikato Building is on Little London Lane, off London Street, Hamilton. The Trust has a sizable carpark and there's ample parking outside and close by.
Author & freelance editor
Venetia Sherson is a former daily newspaper editor and award-winning journalist who now works as a freelance writer and editor. She writes for a variety of publications in print and online, including The Spinoff and RNZ.
She has been a journalist all her life and editor of the Waikato Times between 1997 and 2003. During her tenure, Venetia was named Editorial Writer of the Year twice.
In 2004, she was awarded the ONZM for Services to Journalism. In the same year, she was appointed Wintec’s inaugural editor-in-residence, where she edited two books Heritage Hamilton (2006) and Baches of Raglan (2008). Her recent books – Amazing Grace and The Long Road to Summer, are both self-published.
