How to Pitch with Kill Your Darlings

Welcome to 'How to Pitch'—a short online course from Kill Your Darlings on pitching.

This course is for those who are thinking about sending pitches or works-in-progress to publications—whether KYD or any other print or online publication. Whether you’re pitching for the first time or want to get an insider's insight into the publishing process, we've designed this workshop to assist you with putting your best foot forward.

You'll learn:

• What makes a good (and bad) pitch
• The do's and don'ts of pitching
• Pitching etiquette
• About the writing and editing process after your pitch is accepted

The course will take you 1-2 hours to complete, but can also be accomplished in short stages. This is a completely self-paced online course—you decide when you start and when you finish. We encourage you to approach this material not just as lessons to be finished once and for all, but also as a collection of resources to which you can return time and again.

Scroll down to see the full course curriculum.

Reminder: KYD members also receive a 10% discount all other KYD courses and bundles, plus further discounts throughout the year.

Your Teachers:

Rebecca Starford is the publishing director at Kill Your Darlings. She is the author of the novel The Imitator and the memoir Bad Behaviour, which was recently adapted by Matchbox Pictures into a Stan Original series. She is a former editor at Text Publishing and Affirm Press, and has a PhD in Creative Writing from the University of Queensland. Her new novel, The Visitor, will be published in 2025.

Suzy Garcia is the editor at Kill Your Darlings. She edited three editons of KYD's New Australian Fiction series and is also a writer and bookseller. Previously, she was an editorial assistant at Djed Press.