Join our Women Who Submit (WWS) Literary Works party. You bring your computer, your work, your insecurities, your love of snacks — and we're going to send our work out into the world together. Please RSVP to Molly Cameron.

WWS empowers women writers to submit work for publication. For more information, check out their website, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

This event is open to women and non-binary gender writers. Click here to join the meeting. (Meeting ID: 897 5096 6732; Passcode: 444079)

Do you have an idea for a book? A manuscript you're trying to publish? This is your chance to put your creativity to the test! Come give a one-minute elevator pitch to a panel of experienced editors and agents for real-time Shark Tank-style feedback, or just come to watch how it’s done!

When you become a Virtual Paragraph Member for $25/month , you’ll receive free access to all our events. We’ll take care of the registration for you.

Our judges:

TBD

Brenda Copeland is an editor with more than twenty years’ experience at the big five publishers and over ten years’ experience as an adjunct professor in the graduate publishing program at NYU. She has published a robust list of fiction and non-fiction, quality books with strong commercial appeal, including The Good House by Ann Leary,  Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend by Matthew Dicks, and A Big Little Life, Dean Koontz's first non-fiction book. Now an independent editor, she works closely with authors through all stages of the writing and publication process, helping them reach their creative potential. 

Join our Women Who Submit (WWS) Literary Works party. You bring your computer, your work, your insecurities, your love of snacks — and we're going to send our work out into the world together. Please RSVP to Minerva Martinez.

WWS empowers women writers to submit work for publication. For more information, check out their website, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

This event is open to women and non-binary gender writers. Click here to join the meeting. (Meeting ID: 897 5096 6732; Passcode: 444079)

Do you have an idea for a book? A manuscript you're trying to publish? This is your chance to put your creativity to the test! Come give a one-minute elevator pitch to a panel of experienced editors and agents for real-time Shark Tank-style feedback, or just come to watch how it’s done!

When you become a Virtual Paragraph Member for $25/month , you’ll receive free access to all our events. We’ll take care of the registration for you.

Our judges:

TBD

Brenda Copeland is an editor with more than twenty years’ experience at the big five publishers and over ten years’ experience as an adjunct professor in the graduate publishing program at NYU. She has published a robust list of fiction and non-fiction, quality books with strong commercial appeal, including The Good House by Ann Leary,  Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend by Matthew Dicks, and A Big Little Life, Dean Koontz's first non-fiction book. Now an independent editor, she works closely with authors through all stages of the writing and publication process, helping them reach their creative potential. 

Join our Women Who Submit (WWS) Literary Works party. You bring your computer, your work, your insecurities, your love of snacks — and we're going to send our work out into the world together. Please RSVP to Molly Cameron.

WWS empowers women writers to submit work for publication. For more information, check out their website, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

This event is open to women and non-binary gender writers. Click here to join the meeting. (Meeting ID: 897 5096 6732; Passcode: 444079)

Do you have an idea for a book? A manuscript you're trying to publish? This is your chance to put your creativity to the test! Come give a one-minute elevator pitch to a panel of experienced editors and agents for real-time Shark Tank-style feedback, or just come to watch how it’s done!

When you become a Virtual Paragraph Member for $25/month , you’ll receive free access to all our events. We’ll take care of the registration for you.

Our judges:

TBD

Brenda Copeland is an editor with more than twenty years’ experience at the big five publishers and over ten years’ experience as an adjunct professor in the graduate publishing program at NYU. She has published a robust list of fiction and non-fiction, quality books with strong commercial appeal, including The Good House by Ann Leary,  Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend by Matthew Dicks, and A Big Little Life, Dean Koontz's first non-fiction book. Now an independent editor, she works closely with authors through all stages of the writing and publication process, helping them reach their creative potential. 

Join our Women Who Submit (WWS) Literary Works party. You bring your computer, your work, your insecurities, your love of snacks — and we're going to send our work out into the world together. Please RSVP to Minerva Martinez.

WWS empowers women writers to submit work for publication. For more information, check out their website, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

This event is open to women and non-binary gender writers. Click here to join the meeting. (Meeting ID: 897 5096 6732; Passcode: 444079)

If you’re writing narrative nonfiction, self-help, or memoir, do you really have to be Michelle Obama or David McCullough to beat the odds and be published? No—truth is, agents and editors are eager for great nonfiction stories because they sell. In this session, we’ll address seven key questions that will improve your likelihood of finding success. You’ll come away with new ideas for your work and an understanding of how to develop and pitch your book idea. There will be time for some on-the-spot exercises that will help you avoid common pitfalls, and a Q & A.

KATRIN SCHUMANN is the bestselling author of the novels This Terrible Beauty (March, 2020) and The Forgotten Hours (Feb, 2019), and has collaborated on/ helped develop numerous nonfiction books. Her work has been featured on TODAY, Talk of the Nation, and in The London Times, among others. Before going freelance, Katrin worked part-time at NPR where she won the Kogan Media Award. Currently, Katrin is the program coordinator for the Key West Literary Seminar and teaches writing at GrubStreet in Boston (who’ve published her writing blog for the past nine years). Previously, she was an instructor in PEN's Prison Writing program. Born in Germany, Katrin lives in Boston and Key West. www.katrinschumann.com

*When you join Paragraph, you’ll be automatically registered for this and all events for FREE.

Join our Women Who Submit (WWS) Literary Works party. You bring your computer, your work, your insecurities, your love of snacks — and we're going to send our work out into the world together. Please RSVP to Molly Cameron.

WWS empowers women writers to submit work for publication. For more information, check out their website, Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

This event is open to women and non-binary gender writers. Click here to join the meeting. (Meeting ID: 897 5096 6732; Passcode: 444079)

In this interactive session applicable to writers of all levels and genres, we will discuss how to talk about your work in order to achieve a specific goal, such as compelling an agent to ask for pages, getting a reader interested in your themes, or even pitching the media for a story about you or your books. We’ll discuss various examples, brainstorm your writing’s core themes, and do helpful exercises. You’ll leave with tools to try crafting your own one-liners. 

KATRIN SCHUMANN is the bestselling author of the novels This Terrible Beauty (March, 2020) and The Forgotten Hours (Feb, 2019), and has collaborated on/ helped develop numerous nonfiction books. Her work has been featured on TODAY, Talk of the Nation, and in The London Times, among others. Before going freelance, Katrin worked part-time at NPR where she won the Kogan Media Award. Currently, Katrin is the program coordinator for the Key West Literary Seminar and teaches writing at GrubStreet in Boston (who’ve published her writing blog for the past nine years). Previously, she was an instructor in PEN's Prison Writing program. Born in Germany, Katrin lives in Boston and Key West. www.katrinschumann.com

*When you join Paragraph, you’ll be automatically registered for this and all events for FREE.