Writer’s Retreat with Concurrent, Team-Taught Seminar

WHOLE NOVEL WORKSHOP

Envision and Edit Your Story with the Pros

Are you a skilled writer, published or aspiring, looking for something “different” in a fiction workshop? Our intensive seminar offers editor or agent feedback on selected whole-novel manuscripts, including two in-person consults with your mentor. Or maybe you’re ready for editor and agent critiques on your polished, opening chapters. Whichever stage you’re at, here’s how we assist goal-oriented writers like you:

WORKSHOP HIGHLIGHTS

Novelist (right) relishes smart tips from agent and editor in our open clinic. Photo: Marsha Diane Arnold

• At our intimate event, you’ll have continuous close contact with a supportive, top-notch editor and/or agent. Our open clinics, aka master classes, will allow you to learn from advanced colleagues, as well as from faculty.
• To maximize your educational benefits, you may critique peer manuscripts well before the seminar—then, at our event, compare your assessments with those of the pros. Our collegial format provides behind-the-scenes glimpses that reveal, in depth, what agents and editors really want.
• In 2012, we welcome three outstanding presenters. First, Simon Boughton (senior vice president and publisher of three Macmillan imprints: Roaring Brook Press, First Second, and Farrar, Straus & Giroux). Second, agent Emily Sylvan Kim (president of Prospect Agency); a writer herself. Third, agent Joe Monti (Barry Goldblatt Literary), formerly an editor at Little, Brown. More details on our faculty page.
• Savvy teen enrollees give adults target-reader feedback within their own, concurrent workshop. The intergenerational exchanges prove mutually stimulating—and fun.
• A post-workshop Faculty Mentor Program offers selected writers continuing guidance for up to six months.
• NEW in 2012! Our Novel Writer's Retreat offers solitude in quiet beachfront townhomes. Immerse yourself for up to four days: hone your craft, intermingle with seminar faculty and advanced/published peers.

Creating a marketable novel is a multi-layered challenge, requiring intuition and dedication. Join us for a working retreat or seminar—learn fiction-crafting with the masters. Pinpoint the tools you need to propel your novel from page-turner to published success!

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