1st 5 Pages Writing Workshop: December 2016

Saturday, December 3, 2016

Thank You to the Mentors and Participants of the November Workshop!

Congratulations to all of the participants who worked so hard during our November 1st 5 Pages Writing Workshop! And a big thanks to our wonderful guest mentors, Nancy Ohlin as our author mentor, and Tracy Marchini as our agent mentor. As always, thank you to our talented and fabulous permanent mentors, who read, comment, and cheer on our participants every month!

Speaking of our wonderful mentors, we have exciting mentor news!

CURSING FATE, the sequel to Brenda Drake's fabulous YA fantasy, TOUCHING FATE, was published on November 21. I loved this YA fantasy, so you should definitely check it out!

And on December 6, Stephanie Scott's YA contemporary, ALTERATIONS will be released! I can't wait to read it!

We are taking a hiatus in December, opening again in January, 2017! So get those pages ready - we usually fill up in under a minute!

Happy writing (and revising!)

Erin

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.