How to Pitch Top Publications in 2022

Amber Petty
4 min readApr 9, 2021

Anyone can pitch any publication and it’s not annoying.

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When I started freelance writing, I never considered pitching publications directly.

“Why would Real Simple want to hear from me? I’d just be annoying them!” I thought.

So, I kept writing for small places, responding to ads, and assumed that people only wrote for magazines or places like The

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Amber Petty

Writer for the New York Times, Bustle, Greatist, MTV, IFC, Snooki’s blog. Want to hear about open writing jobs? Sign up for my free newsletter at AmberPetty.com