1st 5 Pages Writing Workshop: 1st 5 Pages April Workshop Opens in 1 Week!

Saturday, March 26, 2016

1st 5 Pages April Workshop Opens in 1 Week!

Our April workshop will open for entries in one week, on Saturday, April 2 at noon, EST. We'll take the first five Middle Grade or Young Adult entries that meet all guidelines and formatting requirements. (We are no longer taking New Adult entries.) Click here to get the rules. I will post when it opens and closes on Adventures in YA Publishing and on twitter (@etcashman), with the hashtag #1st5pages. In addition to our wonderful permanent mentors, we have author Estelle Laure and agent Rachel Burkot!

So get those pages ready . . . we usually fill up in under a minute!

Happy writing and revising!

Erin

1 comment:

AnonimissMarch 29, 2016 at 3:00 PM
Hi,
I'm looking forward to being part of April's group. However, I have a slight problem. Your rules say : Send us the first five pages, with each page approximately 250 words, max 1250 words. But the first 5 pages of my middle-grader book add up to over 1800 words.So should I send in exactly 1250 words or could it be more? Kindly clarify at the earliest.
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ABOUT THE WORKSHOP

The first five pages of a manuscript may be all that agents, editors, and readers read, so the First Five Pages Workshop for young adult and middle grade fiction is here to help young adult and middle grade writers off to an unputdownable start with the help of three published authors and a literary agent over the course of three weeks.

We have a fabulous list of permanent workshop mentors including award-winners and NYT bestselling authors, two of whom are assigned to every manuscript in the workshop. In addition, we have a guest author each month who mentors all the workshop participants. During the third week, our guest literary agent also critiques not only the pages but also the pitch for the book and picks an overall workshop winner. The agent also chooses the strongest manuscript (or manuscripts) and awards a partial critique to an overall winner with potential priority submission opportunities for other selected participants, so not only is this a great learning opportunity, it's a great chance to get your novel published.

To see the workshop in progress, click here.