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Join us for a hybrid panel–both queries AND first pages!–with editor Rachel Diebel. Submit your query, first page, or both for a chance at live feedback from Rachel and our panel–plus, of course, a publishing Q&A. This event is designed to be supportive, uplifting, encouraging–and 100% introvert-friendly. (Wear pajamas! We’ll never know.) A replay will … Read more

We are so happy to welcome Laekan Zea Kemp to the podcast! We talk about how she got her agent (and made sure she was a true ally), her advice for writers (and how to keep your creative self safe), and how she came up with the idea for this gorgeous new story. Laekan Zea … Read more

In this free workshop with writing and theater teacher Chip Brewer, we’ll explore how your characters exist in the physical realm–how they take up space, how this shows us their role in the world, and how this relates to all of the millions of tiny moments that make them who they are. Then we’ll move … Read more

You’re Invited to our very first Call in Episode Have you ever made a mistake in the submissions process—and worried that you’d just ruined your chances of getting published? Our first call-in show is designed to prove that you don’t have to be perfect for things to work out—that you can, in fact, make mistakes … Read more

We are so excited to bring you this live class with agent Katharine Sands, author of Making the Perfect Pitch: How to Catch A Literary Agent’s Eye. If you’ve ever wondered how to make a strong argument for your work (whether nonfiction, fiction, or otherwise), Katharine will go over the necessary components, from overview to competitive … Read more

We are so happy to share this with you! This episode was live-recorded March 2021. Want to watch the free video version instead? Head to manuscriptacademy.com/anne-elliott. Want an email about upcoming free events? Head to manuscriptacademy.com/subscribe. Many of us learn fiction writing via short stories—and many of us fall in love with the form and … Read more

We talk with agent Shannon Snow about how she’d love to bring dystopias and other “dead” genres back (even if, according to Jessica, dystopia couldn’t die fast enough), how agencies decide to take on projects (and share genres between themselves), and how to make your “quiet” story appeal to agents and editors. Shannon Snow worked … Read more

Many of us learn fiction writing via short stories—and many of us fall in love with the form and stick with it. But how do we get our stories into the hands of readers, when agents aren’t interested in them? How do we know when a story is ready to send? And where to send … Read more

We are so happy to welcome agent Larissa Melo Pienkowski to the podcast! We loved having her as a guest, and think you’ll love her, too. Larissa Melo Pienkowski is a literary agent at Jill Grinberg Literary Management, the assistant publisher of Dottir Press, and a freelance editor and sensitivity reader. As a Latinx, mixed-race … Read more

We are so happy to welcome Haley Casey to the podcast! Haley Casey graduated from The University of Kansas in 2015 with a BA in creative writing, and that fall, she attended the Denver Publishing Institute. She began her full-time career at Ogden Publications, where she was an editor for four years. There she worked … Read more