i-D editor Róisín was the Blue Pencil First Novel Award winner of 2020 and has written for the likes of The Atlantic, Vice and the New Statesman.

We chatted about what she looks for in a pitch, her Blue Pencil First Novel Award win and what she has learned throughout her career.

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Welcome to Season 2! Annie, my first guest of the season, is a dating columnist for Vogue and has also written for the likes of Vice and Dazed. Her upcoming memoir Notes on Heartbreak comes out in June 2022.

We chatted about a piece she wrote for Vice that changed her career and led to her getting a dating column and a literary agent, the importance of finding a niche and everything you need to know about her first book.

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Alya is a journalist and author of the bestselling non-fiction book The Greater Freedom: Life as a Middle Eastern Woman Outside the Stereotypes. She is a columnist at Restless and has written for the likes of New York Magazine, The Telegraph and Refinery 29.

She discussed using social media as a tool to get your foot in the door, doing shifts at Grazia and The Debrief, trying your hand at different jobs as a freelancer, her pitching process and how she finds stories, the importance of doing lots of reading, writing a column for Restless Network, building a social media following, her book The Greater Freedom and how it came to fruition, and her newsletter The Greater Conversation.

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