Monday, October 7, 7-9:30pm EST
online
$50
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You've written your book (or proposal). You've revised your book (or proposal). You've revised it again. You've revised it AGAIN. Now you're ready to take the next step towards getting it off your hard drive and into published form. Or maybe you haven't written the whole thing yet, but you are curious about what those next steps towards publication will be.
In this one-session course, we'll talk about how you know when you're ready to query agents, and what that even means. We'll go over the most common do's, don'ts, and agent-querying snafus, and look at best practices for making you look professional, and making your book sound like agent catnip.
Come with your questions and query drafts. This is open to writers with and without finished book drafts! .
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About the Instructor
Amy Shearn is the award-winning author of the novels Unseen City, The Mermaid of Brooklyn, and How Far Is the Ocean From Here, plus the forthcoming novels Dear Edna Sloane (Red Hen Press, 2024) and Animal Instinct (Putnam, 2025). She has worked as an editor at Medium, JSTOR, Conde Nast, and other organizations, and has taught creative writing at NYU, Sackett Street Writers Workshop, Gotham Writers Workshops, Catapult, Story Studio Chicago, and the Yale Writers' Workshop. Amy's essays have appeared in many publications including the New York Times Modern Love column, Slate, Real Simple, Martha Stewart Living, O: The Oprah Magazine, Coastal Living, Poets & Writers, and Literary Hub. She has short fiction and poetry publications forthcoming in No Tokens and Pigeon Pages. Amy has an MFA from the University of Minnesota, and lives in Brooklyn with her two children. You can find her at amyshearnwrites.com or @amyshearn.
Student Testimonials from Past “How to Query Agents” Students
“Amy Shearn’s workshop about querying agents was extremely helpful and well-organized. In addition, Amy was a delightful and encouraging host who really knows her stuff. Very glad I signed up. My notebook filled up quickly!”