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YA Discovery Contest 2018

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Serendipity Literary Agency is hosting their annual writer’s Young Adult Discovery Competition. If writers are having trouble pitching ideas, no worries with this contest because they won’t even need a query! Seriously, only the first 250 words will be needed to submit.

YA literary agent Regina Brooks and her team will read all of the entries and determine the top 20 submissions. (There will be great prizes for the top winners!) These submissions will then be read by editors from many of the major publishing houses. Past judges include editors from Scholastic, Random House/Penguin, Little Brown, Candlewick, Bloomsbury, Simon and Schuster, JIMMY Patterson Books, and Abram Books. Judges will whittle the top 20 down to five winners, including a Grand Prize Winner.

Submissions open on November 1, 2018 at 12:01am (ET) and close on November 30, 2018 at 12:59pm (ET). Only one entry per person with a $15 entry fee. The contest is open to U.S. and Canada residents only.

For complete guidelines and submission rules, or to watch for their upcoming post about prizes, go here. As always, good luck!

P.D. Pabst
Blogger and writer of MG/YA fiction.

YA Novel Discovery Contest

October 28, 2017Contests, LiteraryAbram Books, agent, Authors, Bloomsbury, Candlewick, Competition, Contract, dreams, Entries, Fiction, First 250, Grand Prize, Guidelines, JIMMY Patterson Books, Little Brown, Penguin, Pitching, Prizes, Publishing, Query, Random House, Regina Brooks, Scholastic, Serendipity Literary Agency, Simon and Schuster, Stories, Submissions, Writers, Writing, Young Adult, Young Adult Novel Discoverypdpabst

Serendipity Literary Agency is hosting the eighth annual Young Adult Novel Discovery Competition. If writers are having trouble pitching ideas, no worries with this contest because they won’t even need a query! Seriously, only the first 250 words will be needed to submit.

Submissions open on November 1, 2017 at 12:01am (ET) and close on November 30, 2017 at 12:59pm (ET). Only one entry per person with a $15 entry fee. The contest is open to U.S. and Canada residents only.

For complete guidelines and submission rules, or to watch for their upcoming post about prizes, go here. As always, good luck!

P.D. Pabst
Blogger and writer of MG/YA fiction.

YA Discovery Contest

October 21, 2016Contests, LiteraryAbrams Books, Agents, Authors, Bloomsbury, Brown, Candlewick, Little, Manuscripts, No Pitch, No Query, Penguin, Prizes, Publishers, Random House, Regina Brooks, Scholastic, Serendipity Literary Agency, Simon and Schuster, Sourcebooks, YA Discovery Contest, Young Adult Novel Discovery Competitionpdpabst

Serendipity Literary Agency in conjunction with Sourcebooks Inc. is hosting their seventh annual Young Adult Novel Discovery Competition. If you’ve had trouble pitching your ideas in the past, no worries with this contest. You won’t even need a query!

YA literary agent Regina Brooks and her team will read all of the entries and determine the top 20 submissions. (There are supposed to be great prizes for the top winners!) These submissions will then be read by editors from many of the major publishing houses. Past judges include editors from Scholastic, Random House/Penguin, Little, Brown, Candlewick, Bloomsbury, Simon and Schuster, and Abram Books. Judges will whittle the top 20 down to five winners, including a Grand Prize Winner.

Submissions open on November 1, 2016 at 12:01am (ET) and close on November 30, 2016 at 12:59pm (ET). Only one entry per person with a $15 entry fee. The contest is open to U.S. and Canada residents only.

For complete guidelines and submission rules, or to watch for their upcoming post about prizes, go here.

As always, good luck!

The Manuscript Academy

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The creator of Manuscript Wish List, Jessica Sinsheimer, now brings her adoring fans The Manuscript Academy. How amazeballs is this? The website proclaims it had the writer’s need, comfort, and budget in mind when creating the academy. And oh, how true! A writer can watch classes, panels, and ask questions in the forums from the coziness of their home. Hooray, no traveling!

Faculty includes:

Laura Barbiea: Social media manager at Alloy Entertainment, a publishing arm of Warner Brothers Entertainment. Actress.
Regina Brooks: Founder and president of Serendipity Literary Agency LLC.
Linda Camacho: Literary agent at Prospect Agency.
Jalissa Corrie: Marketing & Publicity Assistant at LEE & LOW BOOKS.
Melissa Edwards: Literary agent at Stonesong.
Julie Falatko: Author of Snappsy the Alligator (Viking 2016) and other books.
Erica Finkel: Works at Abrams Books from picture books to young adult novels.
Ali Fisher: Editor at Tor/Forge Books in the children’s and young adult division.
Monica Odom: Literary agent at Bradford Literary Agency.
Megha Parekh: Grand Central Publishing/Hachette Book Group.
Adriann Ranta Zurhellen: Literary agent at Foundry Literary + Media.
Chuck Sambuchino: Writer’s Digest Books edits the Guide to Literary Agents and managed the Guide to Literary Agents Blog. He is also an author of humor books.
Katharine Sands: Literary agent at Sarah Jane Freymann Literary Agency.
Amanda Shih: Assistant Editor at TarcherPerigee.
Jessica Sinsheimer: Associate Agent at the Sarah Jane Freymann Literary Agency and known for #MSWL, ManuscriptWistList.com, #PubTalkTV
Stephanie Stein: Associate Editor at HarperCollins Children’s Books.
Roseanne Wells: Literary agent at The Jennifer De Chiara Literary Agency.

With that kind of line-up, how can you NOT sign up for this? For the Children’s conference: PB to YA starting November 5, 2016 the cost will be $179. Some of the things the academy promises is:

Priority booking of one-on-one meetings
Submit your first page for a chance to be read to our panel
Craft and business classes
Forums and networking
Live literary events
Everything you’d learn at a conference–without leaving home

To learn about other conferences or to learn how to register, go to The Manuscript Academy.

As always, good luck!

P.D. Pabst
Blogger and writer of MG/YA fiction.

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