The Writers' Workshop Festival of Writing
7th-9th September 2012. University of York, UK
Discover the Festival
There are also Meet the Agents sessions, competitions, our What's your Genre? panel discussions, the famous gala dinner, and more. You can view the entire weekend by exploring our Festival programme. Meet the PublishersThe Festival wouldn't be complete without publishers - and this year we have our strongest line up ever. We're thrilled to welcome: Kirsty Dunsheath, (Publishing Director at Weidenfeld & Nicolson), Gillian Green (Editorial Director at Ebury), Jane Lawson (Editorial Director at Transworld), Francesca Main (Editorial Director at Picador), Jon Appleton, (Editorial Director for fiction at Hodder Children's Books), Michael Rowley (Editorial Director at Ebury) We're also honoured to host the best and brightest from independent publishers, notably Alan Mahar (CEO of literary powerhouse Tindal Street) and Marc Gascoigne and Lee Harris (of the very exciting SF / Fantasy / crime / YA fiction specialist, Angry Robot.) The Bestsellers-The Festival is honoured to host best-selling and award-winning authors such as: JoJo Moyes (info)
Stuart MacBride (more info)
Stuart is a #1 bestselling crime writer, whose work has been lavished with mutiple awards and nominations. He's even achieved the remarkable feat of three almost back to back nominations for the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year. Our PromiseIf you come to our Festival and an agent is seriously interested in your work, then we will be as helpful as we can in making sure that interest turns into a signed offer of representation ... followed ideally by a book deal. Last year's Festival produced a number of agents signings and book deals. We very much hope to do the same for you one of these days. Get info on how we can help you improve your manuscript now
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The AgentsEach year we invite literary agents who are hungry for new talent and who represent some of the biggest and best agencies in the business. Agencies represented at this year's Festival include United Agents, PFD, Christopher Little, Sheil Land, AP Watt, Watson Little, Conville & Walsh, and Blake Friedmann. But we don't just invite the big guys. We also hand-select some of the best agents from the many excellent smaller agencies. This year, we're proud to welcome Lorella Belli, Peter Buckman, Julia Churchill, Lisa Eveleigh, David Headley, Penny Holroyde, and Jane Judd. **Following the success of last year's opening page comp, we've got an expanded comp, this time in association with United Agents. To find out how to be in with a chance of winning lunch in London with an agent, see here.** |
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"A fantastic work-out for the mind. |
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Learn from the ProsOur workshops and seminars are designed to inspire and instruct - and we only invite authors with a great track record who know how to communicate their skills. Choose from dozens of workshops, including:
Get ready for 2012One of the huge lessons of the 2011 Festival was: You can't prepare too much. Agents are looking for wonderful, polished, edited work. The people who came away with requests for complete manuscripts were typically those who had taken detailed, tough, expert editorial advice. So why not get that advice and help now? The Writers' Workshop is here to offer all the advice and help you could possibly need. For more info on getting feedback, please click here. Got any questions?We hope to see you at this year's Festival. In the mean-time if you have any questions at all, please feel free to get in touch. We'll be very happy to help. |
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The Festival is an amazing place to network and make informal contacts, but you'll also learn more than you ever thought possible in a weekend. Check out our: • Amazing 
