How Does The Retreat Work? |
 Interested writers must submit a synopsis of a completed novel or novel in progress along with the first five pages of that novel. From those submissions, 160 participants will be selected. Those participants will then be assigned to a class of 20 and a team instructor. (Our instructors are all successfully published authors, many NY Times Best-sellers, award-winners, and excellent teachers). With this group, you will spend five days working on specifics to improve your manuscript. During and in between classes, you'll learn details about characterization, plot, dialogue, pacing, voice, marketing, pitching, contract negotiations, etc.,all of it geared around your specific work.
Agents and editors will be on hand the last two days of the retreat, and they'll be there to spend one-on-one time with you, our participants . . . writers who now have a polished pitch for a promising work! At the end of the Retreat, each attendee will receive a Pen to Press Writers' Retreat Certificate of Completion, and a PPWR "STRIVING FOR EXCELLENCE" award will be presented to one participant from each class who showed the most improvement in their work!
For more information on the location of our 2008 Pen to Press Writers'Retreat and how to apply, click the Sign Up button below! |
