PRESENTING PARTNER: 90.9 WBUR Boston's NPR News Station
An actor will perform the first page of YOUR unpublished manuscript for the audience and a panel of experienced agent judges. Manuscripts will be chosen and evaluated anonymously on-the-spot by the judges, who will crown one winner. To participate, bring THE FIRST 250 WORDS of your manuscript to the session (fiction or non-fiction only, please) double-spaced, TITLED, with its genre marked clearly. Leave the submission in a box at the front of the room. Note that some manuscripts may inspire laughter or scorn; in other words, this session is not for the thin-skinned! Sponsored by Grub Street.
Presenters:
Ann Collette was a freelance writer and editor for fifteen years before becoming an agent with the Helen Rees Agency. She reviewed fiction for Publishers Weekly for six years and wrote reviews, author profiles, and features for over thirty other magazines, including Book, Entertainment Weekly, Ms., and The Boston Globe. Though Ann loves literary fiction and is always open to considering such work, she specializes in category fiction. She's always on the lookout for thrillers, mysteries, and the darkest of dark crime fiction.
Sorche Elizabeth Fairbank represents a varied list of best-selling authors, Edgar recipients, award-winning journalists, and of course one of her favorite kinds of client--the first-time author. Her tastes in novels tend toward literary fiction, international and women's voices, and the mystery/suspense genre. In non-fiction, she takes on books that tackle current events and societal issues with a narrative treatment. She has a strong interest in women's voices and class and race issues, quality lifestyle books, sports, memoir, humor, and pop culture.
Caroline Zimmerman joined the Kneerim & Williams agency in 2009. Previously, she held positions at Frontline, PBS's flagship investigative journalism series, at Vanity Fair media columnist Michael Wolff's Newser.com, at CBS, and at Harvard University's Transition Magazine. She is interested in literary fiction that engages with ideas but remains character-driven, literature in translation, pop culture, popular economics, social psychology, sociology, smart how-to, religion, travel, visual books, and women's issues.