This is Bitch Magazine. Tagline: a feminist response to pop culture. This magazine has existed for ten years and I have known about it and loved it and longed to be a part of it for eight of those years. Back in college, I submitted one really well-thought-out but, in retrospect, overly academic pitch to them. They wrote me a very sweet and personal, "This is good, but it's not quite for us, but you should submit again," response. Then I got all foamy and lobbed off another totally unprofessional piece of nothing one day and got back an appropriately dismissive, "No thanks," with an implied deletion of the "thanks" part. I hadn't done my homework--I just wanted to get in--which totally showed. I was wasting the editor's time, not showing respect for the magazine. So I got dissed, rightly.
Didn't submit again 'til last week. Saw something in Marie Claire that made my blood boil, and I thought, "This is so something that Bitch would cover." So I wrote them a ditty on it that was tailored to an existing section, rewrote and scrutinized three times, and sent it. Today, I got this, from founding badass Andi Zeisler:
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hi Emily,
Thanks for this great rant. We're definitely interested in running it in the upcoming issue of Bitch. If you can send me your mailing address, I'll get a writer's agreement in the mail.
best,
Andi Zeisler
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Friday rules!
xo
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