January 2019 Workshop

Our January Workshop kicked off on Saturday, January 5th at noon EST!

The First Five Pages Workshop is here to help writers find their manuscript's best possible opening with the help of two of our permanent author mentors and a featured guest author. The Workshop runs over the course of three consecutive weeks. In the final week, a literary agent will review the pitch and final draft of the pages. Not only will the agent provide notes, they will also offer a partial request and critique for at least one selected winner.

And that's not all! The workshop isn't just for the writers who have submitted manuscripts. For any writer, seeing how each manuscript evolves with the help of our mentoring authors and literary agent can be an unparalleled learning experience in how publishing really works and how professionals and readers read. 

Follow along and see the transformation on each of the workshop manuscripts: what worked, what didn't work, and why. This page will always have the most recent workshop displayed with additional workshops linked below.  Follow along with the workshop! Additional workshops are also available in chronological order on the site sidebar.

Guest Mentors

Amy McNamara  Author of A FLICER IN THE CLARITY and LOVELY DARK and DEEP

Literary Carlisle Webber  of Fuse Literary

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Previous Workshops

• June 2018 Workshop with Lit Agent Danielle Burby and Author/Editor Kim Culbertson
• May 2018 Workshop with Lit Agent Natascha Morris and Author/Editor J.M. Lee
• April 2018 Workshop with Lit Agent Erica Bauman and Author/Editor Sheryl Scarborough
• March 2018 Workshop with Lit Agent Lynette Novel and Author/Editor Heather Smith Meloche
• February 2018 Workshop with Lit Agent Laura Crockett and Author/Editor Kelley Armstrong
• January 2018 Workshop with Lit Agent Abby Saul and Author/Editor Christina June
• November 2017 Workshop with Lit Agent Alec Shane and Author/Editor Robin Constantine
• October 2017 Workshop with Lit Agent Kaitlyn Johnson and Author/Editor Amy Dominy
• September 2017 Workshop with Lit Agent Lauren Spieller and Author/Editor Kate Brauning
• July 2017 Workshop with Lit Agent Gabrielle Piraino and Author Laura Williams McCaffrey 
• June 2017 Workshop with Lit Agent Connor Eck and Author Becky Wallace 
• May 2017 Workshop with Lit Agent Hillary Jacobson and Author Kit Allow 
• April 2017 Workshop with Lit Agent Justin Wells and Author Jennifer Longo 
• March 2017 Workshop with Lit Agent Wendi Gu and Author Catrina Burgess 
• February 2017 Workshop with Lit Agent Kristy Hunter and Author Kelly Barson 
• January 2017 Workshop with Lit Agent Lauren Spieller and Author Shea Berkley 

      (Use sidebar links for earlier workshops)
        

Enter Your Own First Five Pages    

Interested in participating yourself? See here. But even if your own manuscript isn't in the workshop, seeing how the manuscripts evolve over three weeks with the help of our mentoring authors and literary agent can help you make HUGE leaps forward with your own manuscript.