👩🏫 EDITOR HOUR: Live Editorial Feedback + AMA w/ Roxy Bourdillon
** This is a LIVE session and will not be recorded. **
Our Editor Hours are part live editing session, part ask-me-anything. Bring your questions or your work-in-progress and get individualised feedback from an expert editor.
This week, we're joined by editor Roxy Bourdillon.
You can submit:
A question about craft, editing, or the publication process.
An excerpt of your work for live editorial feedback (please upload up to 700 words in the Comments below).
If you’d like Roxy to give live feedback on your work, please make sure your submission is within her area of expertise. Roxy is particularly experienced in:
Personal essays and memoir, especially those exploring sexuality, identity, and self-discovery
Journalism and magazine writing — pitching, crafting, and editing pieces for mainstream and LGBTQIA+ publications
Editorial insight from her role as Editor-in-Chief of DIVA, the world’s leading magazine for LGBTQIA+ women and non-binary people
👉 Writers may submit personal essays, memoir excerpts, or pitches connected to these areas for live feedback. Questions about writing, editing, or publishing in Roxy’s areas of expertise are also welcome.
How It Works
1️⃣ Submit Your Questions or Work for Feedback: Ticket holders will receive instructions on submitting questions upon purchase.
2️⃣ Show Up Live: Join us on Zoom for a 60-minute, ask-me-anything-style session.
3️⃣ Listen & Learn: Watch editors answer questions, share insider advice, and offer live feedback.
⚠️ Please note: While we aim to address as many submissions as possible, attendance and ticket purchase does not guarantee feedback. Priority feedback goes to London Writers’ Salon members (Silver and Gold). If time permits, we will turn to questions from ticketed attendees.
Perks for Gold Members 🏆
Priority Feedback: Gold members’ questions and query letters will be addressed first.
Recorded Insights: Can’t make it live? Gold members can submit their questions in advance and receive a private recording.
👉 Not a Gold member yet? Find out more about Gold Membership here.
🎟️ Limited tickets available for non-members. Secure your spot now!
About Roxy Bourdillon
Roxy is the author of What A Girl Wants: A (True) Story Of Sexuality And Self-discovery, an award-winning journalist, and the Editor-in-Chief of DIVA, the world’s leading magazine for LGBTQIA+ women and non-binary people.
Since becoming editor in 2021, she has led DIVA to multiple sell-out issues and earned the Trans In The City Trans Inclusive Organisation Award. In 2023, she was Highly Commended as New Editor of the Year at the British Society of Magazine Editors Awards.
As a journalist, Roxy has written for Cosmopolitan, Glamour, Grazia, Marie Claire, Woman&Home, and Curve. Her work in the media has earned her a place in both the Pride Power List (published in The Guardian) and Attitude 101: LGBTQ+ Trailblazers Changing The World.
An experienced public speaker, she has given talks at iconic venues and events including the British Library, Soho Theatre, BFI Southbank, and The Coast Is Queer. She has also appeared in award-winning documentaries such as The Gateways Grind (presented by Sandi Toksvig), and hosted the Virgin Radio Pride special Butches, Femmes & Dykes Snogging On The Dancefloor: The Incredible True Story Of Lesbian Nightlife.
Her debut book, What A Girl Wants: A (True) Story Of Sexuality And Self-Discovery, is published by Bluebird Pan Macmillan and out now.
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