1st 5 Pages Writing Workshop: Thank You to the Participants and the Mentors of January 1st 5 Pages Workshop!

Thursday, January 26, 2017

Thank You to the Participants and the Mentors of January 1st 5 Pages Workshop!

Congratulations to all of the participants who worked so hard during our January 1st 5 Pages Writing Workshop! And a big thanks to our wonderful guest mentors, Shea Berkley as our author mentor, and Lauren Spieller as our agent mentor. They both provided terrific critiques. And 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! Our lovely mentor, the talented Brenda Drake, is now a New York Times Bestselling author! Congratulations, Brenda! I adored her YA fantasy, THIEF OF LIES, and I can’t wait for the sequel,GUARDIAN OF SECRETS, which comes out on February 7th! (But is available for pre-order!!)

Our February workshop will open for entries on Saturday, February 4th at noon, EST. We'll take the first five Middle Grade or Young Adult entries that meet all guidelines and formatting requirements. (Double check the formatting - each month we have to disqualify entries because of formatting.) 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 Kelly Barson as our author mentor, and Kristy Hunter as our agent mentor! So get those pages ready - we usually fill up in under a minute!

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.