Brooklyn Writing Workshop

10/28/2024

Excited to announce our 2025 in-person conferences with locations across the US - and online conferences you can attend from anywhere. Join us! Details: https://www.writingdayworkshops.com/event-locations--dates.html

11/24/2022

Happy Thanksgiving, NYC Writers! The next Brooklyn in-person event will hopefully be Fall 2023. *** In the meantime, our next amazing (online) conference is on Saturday, Dec. 10, 2022. 20+ agents are joining on Dec. 10 for one-on-one virtual pitches. Join us at the online event, and thank you for considering to spread the word: https://pittsburghwritingworkshop.com/

11/28/2021

Check out our latest WDW online writing conference that's coming up fast -- The 2021 Pittsburgh Writing Workshop on Saturday, Dec. 11, 2021. Learn from published authors and pitch your book to 30+ literary agents & editors. All writers welcome; attend from anywhere. Click to learn more about classes, agent pitches, and critiques: https://pittsburghwritingworkshop.com

02/17/2021

We don't know what 2021 will bring, and while we hope to have an in-person Brooklyn writers conference when it's safe, please know that we have awesome *online* writers conferences happening right now -- every month between February and June 2021. All info here:

http://www.writingdayworkshops.com/event-locations--dates.html

Dates: Feb. 12-13 ... March 13 ... April 9-10 .... May 14-15 ... June 12.

Each of these online writers conferences include live Zoom classes, free additional pre-recorded sessions, optional critiques, and one-on-one virtual pitches with literary agents seeking new writers and clients right now. The hyperlink above will answer many of your questions. Thanks, everyone.

06/16/2019

We had our first Brooklyn Writing Conference yesterday and it was a huge success. If you attended we would love to hear what you enjoyed most about the event and what you learned.

06/07/2019

Any Mystery Writers out there? The MWA-New York has a great scholarship opportunity you may be interested in.

"The application period is now open for the 2019 Leon B. Burstein/MWA-NY Scholarship for Mystery Writing. This year, two scholarships of $1,000 each will be awarded to aspiring mystery writers who live in Connecticut,
Delaware, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, or West Virginia. The attached document outlines basic information about the scholarship. Detailed information about the application process can be found on the website of the Mystery Writers of America, New York chapter."

The Leon B. Burstein/MWA-NY Scholarship offers aspiring mystery writers financial support as demonstrably necessary to a mystery work they are creating.

06/06/2019

The Writing Workshop is just a week away!
https://brooklynwritingworkshop.com/
This special Agent Teaching Day features literary agents teaching most of the classes. If you haven't registered yet, there is still time. http://bit.ly/BrooklynWW



Check out the Brooklyn Writing Workshop Schedule

8:30 – 9:30: Check-in and registration

BLOCK ONE: 9:30 – 10:30

Class choice #1: Understanding Social Media and Marketing Yourself (Tactic room)

Class choice #2: First Impressions: How to Hook and Agent or Editor with Your Opening Pages (Metrotech A room)


BLOCK TWO: 10:45 – 11:50

Class choice #1: An Agent’s Tips on Writing Amazing Young Adult Fiction Manuscripts and Young Adult First Pages (Tactic room)

Class choice #2: Everything You Need to Know About Query Letter Writing (Metrotech A room)

11:50 – 1:15: Lunch on your own

BLOCK THREE: 1:15 – 2:30

Class choice #1: “Writers’ Got Talent” — A First Pages Critique Fest (general/all fiction & memoir) (Metrotech A room)

Class choice #2: “Writers’ Got Talent” — A Kidlit First Pages Critique Fest (young adult and middle grade) (Tactic room)


BLOCK FOUR: 2:45 – 3:45

Class choice #1: Improve Your Writing: The Basics of Self-Editing and Revision (Tactic room)

Class choice #2: How to Research Agents and Find the Best One For You (Metrotech A room)

BLOCK FIVE: 4:00 – 5:00

Class choice #1: An Overview of Your Publishing Options Today (Tactic room)

Class choice #2: Fiction Query Roundtable (Metrotech A room)

05/25/2019

We have added 2 new literary agents to our faculty for the Brooklyn Writing Workshop. Please help me welcome, Jim McCarthy from Dystel, Goderich & Bourret and Stephanie Delman from Sanford J. Greenburger Associates. For a chance to pitch your book idea to them, sign for the conference happening June 15th at the Sheraton Brooklyn New York Hotel. https://brooklynwritingworkshop.com/

05/17/2019

We are excited to have Kate McKean as part of the 2019 Brooklyn Writing Workshop faculty. Here is a little more about her and the kinds of books she represents.

Kate McKean is a literary agent with Howard Morhaim Literary. Kate joined HMLA in 2006. She earned her master’s degree in fiction writing at the University of Southern Mississippi and began her publishing career at the University Press of Florida. She is proud to work with New York Times best selling authors in a wide variety of genres including Daniel Mallory Ortberg’s Texts From Jane Eyre, Madeleine Roux’s YA horror series Asylum, and Brittany Gibbons’ memoir Fat Girl Walking. In addition to working with clients, she is an adjunct professor at New York University.

For adults, she is primarily interested in contemporary women’s fiction, literary fiction, historical fiction set in the 20th Century, fantasy, magical realism, and science fiction. For children, she is looking for projects in middle grade and young adult in the areas of horror, romance, LGBTQ issues, contemporary fiction, sports, magical realism, fantasy, and science fiction, as well as picture books of all kinds, especially non-fiction picture books. In non-fiction, for adults or children/teens, she represents books by authors with demonstrable platforms in the areas of pop-culture, memoir, sports, food writing, humor, design, creativity, and craft. She is also interested in graphic novels and memoirs for all ages–adult and children. She is not actively looking for, among other areas not listed above, novellas, poetry, or screenplays.

05/16/2019

Will you be pitching to an agent at the Brooklyn Writing Workshop? Here is an article that might answer questions you may have and help you prepare.

Writers attend conferences for many reasons, but one of the biggest draws is the literary agent pitch sessions. Writers get face-to-face time with those in the industry who often appear unreachable. If done correctly, these three-to-ten-minute sessions can land a writer an agent and eventually a boo...

05/15/2019

Have you seen the great literary agents we have so far for the Brooklyn Writing Workshop? This one day event on June 15th, has sessions on the craft of writing, the business of writing and a chance to pitch your manuscript idea to agents. I hope to see you there. http://brooklynwritingworkshop.com


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