Join Chitra Ramaswamy, Dani Garavelli and Eve Livingston for a workshop packed with tips and advice on how to be a successful freelance journalist.

Hosted by Women in Journalism Scotland chair Gabriella Bennett, this event will reveal how freelancing can work for journalists at various stages of their careers.

Three of the UK's best freelance journalists will be on hand to answer your questions including how they got started as freelancers, how to pitch to London and Scottish editors, how to make the jump from staff job to freelancer, and how to write for different publications.

More on our panellists:

Chitra Ramaswamy is a journalist and author. She writes for The Guardian, is the restaurant critic for The Times Scotland, and broadcasts for BBC radio. Her latest book, Homelands: The History of a Friendship, published by Canongate in April 2022, is a work of creative non-fiction, while her first book, Expecting: The Inner Life of Pregnancy, published by Saraband in April 2016, won the Saltire First Book of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the Polari Prize.

Dani Garavelli is a freelance feature writer and columnist working for titles across the UK.

Eve Livingston is a freelance social affairs journalist. She has written for The Guardian, The Independent and VICE among many others and has appeared on TV and radio including BBC Woman's Hour and ITV News. In 2018 she was one of Young Women Scotland's 30 under 30, and in 2019 she was shortlisted for an Orwell Prize and Amnesty Media Award.

Tickets for the event can be booked here.

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