With details of upcoming tutorials, the BPA First Novel Award 2022 and more:
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Spring Away Day
MAY 21, 2022,
10am – 6pm
Our
next Away Day is coming up on May 21, and we can't wait to meet
for a day of workshopping, bookish chatter and food. Head to
a beautiful country house in Kintbury, Berkshire, with a pen
and paper, and leave the rest to us!
Full-day
workshop on Prose, Voice, and Dialogue with Emma
Darwin
Literary
Agent Q&A with Charlotte Seymour
Lunch
and
Afternoon
Tea included
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In the coming months, we're inviting best
selling authors to run specialist tutorials on their
respective genres. If you're writing crime/thrillers, or Young
Adult (YA), we'd love to see you there!
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CRIME & THRILLERS
Genre Tutorial
| Caroline
Green |
6 – 8 pm
How do you write a book that pulls readers in and won’t let them
go? How do you handle the business of twists and red herrings in
crime and thrillers? And how do you do the right amount of
research so that your book feels authentic, without getting
bogged down? In this workshop we will look at the way
the crime market has grown and changed over the years and talk
about where your book might sit.
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YA FICTION
Genre Tutorial | Tanya Byrne | 6 – 8 pm
In this workshop we will look at how the
YA market has moved on since Twilight and The Hunger Games were
published and changed everything. We’ll discuss what readers are
looking for now and how platforms like TikTok are putting books
into the hands of people who might never have found them.
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BPA First Novel Award 2022
DEADLINE: MAY
29
Please
submit your entries to the BPA First Novel Award 2022.
Submissions should include the first 5,000 words of your novel,
with a cover letter and 300-word synopsis. Our top three winners
will secure an agent introduction, with a manuscript assessment
and £1,000 cash also up for grabs.
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"I
remember clearly wondering whether to send my manuscript to
the Blue Pencil Award, and if it was ready. I am so glad I did -
seeing my name on first the longlist, and then the short list was
an incredible feeling. It was encouragement and validation,
however subjective we all know it is, for something undertaken in
isolation and often uncertainty. Winning it was a game-changer
for me. The team at BPA seemed almost as excited as I was! Hellie
Ogden offered me representation and I am now working with her as
my wonderful agent on what I hope will become my debut novel. It
is quite literally a dream come true."
Julia
Kelly, 2021 Winner
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