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. Winners receive a free month at Paragraph. Select finalists receive free weeks. Judges for this month’s Pitch Wars will be editor Brenda Copeland, agent Claudia Cross (Folio Literary Management) and author Diana Goetsch. And TOTE BAG TRIVIA will be played while the judges make their final decision.

We draw names from both the Eventbrite ticket list AND door sign ups. If you do not get a Pitch Ticket in advance, come anyway! We do our best to get everyone in!

This event is free and open to the public.

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. Now an independent editor, she works closely with authors through all stages of the writing and publication process, helping them reach their creative potential.

Diana Goetsch is the author of eight collections of poems, dozens of nonfiction features and articles, and is currently at work on a memoir forthcoming from Farrar, Straus & Giroux. Her writing has appeared in leading journals, anthologies and newspapers including The New Yorker, Poetry, Gettysburg Review, The American Scholar, the L.A. Times, the Chicago Tribune, Best American Poetry and the Pushcart Prize. Her honors include fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, the New York Foundation for the Arts, the Grace Paley Teaching Fellowship at The New School, and the Donald Murray prize for writing pedagogy. Her website is www.dianagoetsch.com