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Pitching Your Writing to Magazines: the Why, the When, the Who, and the How

November 29, 2026

Date: November 29, 2026

Time: 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm

Online. Free for members of the PEN Writers in Exile.

Join author, educator and Writers in Exile mentor Patricia Westerhof online on Nov. 29 from 3:00 to 5:00 P.M. to learn best strategies to submitting your stories, essays, and poems to Canadian magazines. Learn how to choose magazines that are a good fit for your work, which ones will advance your writing career, and what practices will lead to acceptances instead of rejections. This webinar will include 90 minutes of instruction and 30 minutes for Q&A.

Registration

This workshop is only available to members of the PEN Canada Writers in Exile group. It is free for those members to attend, and registration is required.

About the Facilitator

Patricia Westerhof

Patricia Westerhof is the author of the novels Catch Me When I Fall and The Dove in Bathurst Station, as well as The Canadian Guide to Creative Writing and Publishing. She co-authored The Writer’s Craft, a creative writing textbook that was used widely in Canadian schools. Her stories and articles have appeared in Room, The Feathertale Review, The Dalhousie Review, Write, West End Phoenix, The Toronto Star, and Post Road.

She is a past winner of the Word Award for Best Contemporary Novel, a K.M. Hunter Award finalist, and the recipient of multiple writing grants and residencies. Patricia, who holds an MA in Education and teaches creative writing classes at the University of Toronto’s School of Continuing Studies, is also a winner of a University of Toronto Excellence in Teaching award. Her current project is a literary novel about risk and culpability, set in Toronto and the Canadian Rockies. Learn more about her at www.patriciawesterhof.com