Blue Pencil Agency events, 23 & 25 March and more

With details of the upcoming BPA events including tomorrow's and Thursday's:

Thursday, March 25 – Craft Tutorials: Voice   This Thursday, March 25, 6 - 8 pm, writing tutor Emma Darwin is returning for a Zoom craft tutorial on voice and prose. Voice is the element which all agents and editors say they are looking for in a manuscript – but that’s by no means the only reason to work hard on the word-by-word text and textures of your novel: in the end, the words on the page are all you have to transmit your story. In this practical workshop we will explore through short exercises how to make your prose rich and rare but never purple (except when you mean it to be), how to strip it back without it becoming drearily threadbare, and what this all means for how your characters and your narrative speak. Tuesday, March 23 – Q&A with Hellie Ogden On Tuesday March 23, 6 - 7:30 pm, BPA First Novel Award judge and literary agent Hellie Ogden (Janklow & Nesbit) will be answering your questions on submissions and competition entries.      View All Events       May - December Events   We're excited to share a preview of our upcoming events. Four Craft Tutorials with Emma Darwin and an Away Day in Kintbury, Berkshire will be available to book soon.    Love from the BPA team.