F138.
How to Be Your Own Agent
Friday, February 9, 2024
10:35 am to 11:50 am
How can you place your manuscript with a good publisher if you don’t have a literary agent? A group of writers from diverse backgrounds will explain their process. This discussion will identify presses that consider unsolicited manuscripts and will explain how to find reading periods and contests. The focus will be on narrowing targets and submitting at low cost. Panelists are prose writers or poets who have successfully placed one or more books with a reputable independent publisher.
This event will take place in person in the Kansas City Convention Center. In addition to the in-person event at the conference, a prerecorded version of this event will be available to view on-demand.
Participants
Thaddeus Rutkowski is author of seven books, most recently Tricks of Light, a poetry collection. His novel Haywire won an Asian American Writers Workshop award. He teaches at Medgar Evers College and Columbia University and received a fiction fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts.
Pedro Ponce is the author of The Devil and the Dairy Princess: Stories, winner of the Don Belton Fiction Prize and a finalist for the Big Other Book Award for Fiction. He teaches writing and literary theory at St. Lawrence University.
Anne Elliott is the author of The Artstars: Stories. Her short fiction can be found in A Public Space, STORY, Crab Orchard Review, Witness, Hobart, and other journals. Honors include the Blue Light Books Prize, the Story Foundation Prize, and a grant from the Elizabeth George foundation.
Joanna Sit was born in China and grew up in New York City. She is the author of My Last Century (2012), In Thailand with the Apostles (2014), and most recently, Track Works. She teaches creative writing at Medgar Evers College, City University of New York.
Ariel Gore is a Lambda Award-winning author and editor whose most recent book, The Wayward Writer, champions creative liberation and demystifies publishing. Other titles include F*ck Happiness, The End of Eve, and We Were Witches. She teaches writing at LiteraryKitchen.net and is her own agent.
