I’m excited to announce that I am back teaching at NYU at the School of Professional Studies. The online course I am teaching in Spring 2019 is Writing Parenthood: Writng for a Growing Market. Register here for the course.
By Estelle Erasmus
Lisa Bonos is the lead writer and editor for Solo-ish, a Washington Post blog about single life. Before launching Solo-ish in 2015, she spent 10 years as an editor on The Post’s opinion and business desks.
Find the podcast with Lisa and others here.
Lisa talked about how Soloish expands the lens and how she is looking for something specific in a personal essay–that it is either so extraordinary or so common that everyone can relate to it.
In the podcast, Lisa spoke with me about the following:
• How she created Soloish
• What she looks for in an essay
• Submission tips
• Her background in publishing
• Some of her most popular essays
• Her pet peeves
• What she likes to read
• How to contact her
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Plus
Find out why adding a news peg to your story pitch is helpful
Find out and how she likes to be pitched
And why she likes to read pitches on Thursday
Lisa’s Links from Soloish:
You can find Lisa’s writing here:
Some popular essays
I tried to fall in love with myself…it was harder than I expected
When my girlfriend was groped right in front of me, I didn’t believe her
I was judged for having sex after my husband died. I think he would have understood.
‘It’s tough for me to know where the line is’: The #MeToo era is making dating more confusing
No one tells you life as a 40-year-old single woman could be this good
The pieces Lisa wrote about the sexual misconduct allegations against Aziz Ansari also did well:
Aziz Ansari fashions himself a dating expert. But clearly he’s still learning.
What’s in Aziz Ansari’s dating book, ‘Modern Romance’? Not much sex talk.
Here’s how Aziz Ansari could use ‘Master of None’s’ next season to rebuild his image
Follow Lisa on Twitter:@lisabonos [twitter.com].
Follow me on Twitter,Facebook, Instagram and here on my website for publishing advice and editor interviews
Register for my Writer’s Digest classes:
Writing the Personal Essay
Getting Started in Writing
Pitch an Article (2 week bootcamp on pitching)
Congrats on going back to teaching. And on carrying out an inspiring interview with Lisa. On a personal note, I find it inspiring to see how creative one can be when addressing stereotypical beliefs.. I will probably go through the suggested reading over the weekend.
What a fun job she has, for sure. I’d love to have a regular spot in the Washing ton Post. 🙂
Congrats to teaching. This was a very intriguing interview.
What a great interview. Very intriguing and I love learning about new people!
Congrats on being back teaching at NYU. This looks to be a very compelling interview. I briefly clicked through some of the material and look forward to diving in more. Thank you for sharing.
Good luck teaching. Need to teach these young people what the world is like.
Thank you for the valuable information. My friend is working on writing and publishing a sci-fi novel. I need to pass this post along to her!
I’m listening to your podcast right now, I would love to learn from her insights about pitching, I find it so intimidating to pitch to editors!
Although I am not single, I think I would be interested in reading more and hearing more. I clicked through and read some of the articles and they are worth the read.
Thanks for sharing this interview. I hadn’t read any of her work before but I am headed to check it out.
What a great interview! I find her intriguing enough to know more about her.
These podcasts are so helpful to everyday wonen I willl definitely check this interview out as soon as I get home.
Thanks for another great interview. I’m going to have to go check out the rest of her work.