1st 5 Pages Writing Workshop: Thanks to our March 1st 5 Pages Mentors and Participants!

Friday, March 25, 2016

Thanks to our March 1st 5 Pages Mentors and Participants!

I am sad to say that our 1st 5 Pages March Workshop has come to an end. We had such a great group of talented and supportive writers! And wow – did they revise! And a big thanks to our guest mentors, author Sarah Fine and agent Nicole Tourtelot! They both provided such helpful critiques. If you haven’t checked out Sarah’s books you should – they’re wonderful! I just finished THE IMPOSTOR QUEEN and I loved it!

And as always, thank you to our talented and fabulous permanent mentors, who read, comment, and cheer on our participants every month. Congratulations to our mentor Janet B. Taylor, whose debut YA, INTO THE DIM, was published on March 1. I adored every page of the historical time-travel adventure!

Our April workshop will open for entries 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.) Clickhere 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.

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

Happy writing (and revising!)

Erin

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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.