About Our Sponsors
Agent Query accepts sponsorship from companies and organizations who provide beneficial services to writers such as manuscript editing,
career consulting, networking opportunities, and writing classes, workshops, and conferences. If you would like more information about how to become an AQ sponsor, please click here.
Algonkian Novel Workshops
The goal of Algonkian is to provide writers of all genres with the craft
skills, connections, and market knowledge they need to effectively compete
in today's fiercely competitive literary market. We provide a series of reality
checks, both in terms of written exercises and interactive sessions with professional
editors and agents. We also require every writer in our shops develop a realistic
plan to get their novel or fiction manuscript published. For more information, see
our FAQ at http://www.algonkianconferences.com/faq.htm
Backspace: The Writer's Place
Backspace is an online writers organization with over 850 members in a dozen countries.
A third of our members are agented and published, and include nearly a dozen New York Times best-selling authors.
Their annual Backspace Writers Conference brings together literary agents, acquisitions editors, best-selling authors,
and publishing professionals for a two-day, two-track program of workshops, panels, and networking in the heart of the
publishing world (attendance limited to 200). The Backspace Agent-Author Day
(May 27-29, 2010 in NYC) brings together over 20 top literary agents for panels and workshops provising authors an opportunity to have their query letters and opening pages critiqued by literary agents in a small-group, genre-specific format (attendance is limited).
The Editorial Department:
Now celebrating 26 years in the service of writers worldwide.
Founded by former William Morrow senior editor Renni Browne, our firm is
dedicated to helping writers of full-length fiction and nonfiction turn
promising manuscripts into salable properties. What sets us apart from others
is our high rate of success with first fiction, our policy against taking on work
that we feel shows little promise, and the assistance we offer our un-agented authors
in finding literary representation. We cannot guarantee writers publication as a result
of working with us, but we can dramatically improve their odds. Authors’ Services include:
manuscript evaluation & consultation, proofreading, copyediting, line editing, ghost writing
& collaboration, synopsis & book proposal preparation, writers’ workshops & seminars, a free
writers’ e-zine, and a fiction-writing e-course. Contact info:
The Editorial Department, www.editorialdepartment.com, admin@editorialdepartment.com
PH: (866) 360-6996
Grub Street's the muse & the marketplace 2010
Mark your calendars for New England's premier weekend literary conference, to be held May 1-2, 2010, at the fabulous Boston Park Plaza Hotel. Our 2010 keynote speaker will be Chuck Palahniuk, who will speak on Sunday, May 2nd over lunch in the Imperial Ballroom.
The Muse and the Marketplace is Chuck Palahniuk's first stop on the tour for his new book, Tell All.
Registration is now open for the general conference! If you plan to participate in the Manuscript Mart - in which an established literary agent or editor will give you a one-on-one, 20 minute critique session on your work, which they will have read in advance -
the deadline for submission of all materials is 5pm, Wednesday, March 31st, 2010.
TheNextBigWriter.com
TheNextBigWriter is a dynamic, supportive private community where writers post their novels, short stories, and poems to receive feedback from other writers and readers.
In addition, writers can share ideas and network with one another, start building a fan-base of readers, and receive recognition and rewards - including cash
prizes and publishing contracts. This all occurs within a validated password-protected (VPP) site, ensuring that the rights to each author's
work are fully preserved, and creating a comfortable, professional environment. Members on the site run the spectrum from beginners to published writers
and come from all parts of the world.
University of North Florida Writers Conference
The University of North Florida and the Florida Writers Association partner to kick off the three-day 2010 conference in Jacksonville, FL on Friday, August 6, with a full day of writing workshops.
On Saturday, August 7, and Sunday, August 8, writers participate in Critique Workshops in the following categories: General Fiction, General Non-Fiction, YA (Young Adult), Children's Book (Picture and Chapter Books), Memoir/Oral History or Screenwriting.
Sunday afternoon's schedule includes a "First Page Panel" and a workshop featuring the UNF Writers Conference Book & Film Deal Connection, an opportunity for attendees to submit their work to agents, book editors and film producers after the conference.
Location: University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL, August 6-8, 2010. Let your creative spirit soar!
Disclaimer: Agent Query reserves the right to reject any requests for sponsorship for any reason at any time. Sponsorship approval and subsequent ads do not constitute an endorsement of any sort on the part of Agent Query LLC.
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