Karen's blog: The Manuscript Academy Summer Academy, 11-14 August 2025

Monday, 11 August 2025

The Manuscript Academy Summer Academy, 11-14 August 2025

Tickets on sale now for those who may be interested:

It's last call for Early Bird Summer Academy tickets!

Tonight at midnight ET, they go from $39 to $49 for the four-day workshop.

This is going to be an upbeat, inspiring, and supportive writing experience to keep your story moving while you enjoy your summer.

In just a four days you’ll:
- Watch our agents go over queries and pages at our live panel
- Meet agents and editors daily for group writing and publishing Q&A
- Workshop query + page daily with your new best writing friends
- Learn tension, momentum, and how to keep an agent reading with award-winning author Cameron Kelly Rosenbaum
- Increase your word count with new creative energy
- Polish your query and page so you feel confident sending in this fall
- And more!
Our special guests include:
- John Cusick, Folio Literary
- Alice Speilburg, Speilburg Literary
- Kelly Van Sant, KT Literary
- Ruqayyah Daud, Hachette Book Group
- Ivan Taurisano, Abrams Children’s
- Jessica Sinsheimer, Context Literary
- Cameron Kelly Rosenblum, award-winning author

All events come with a replay if you can’t make it live (though everything will work on mobile, signal dependent, from the beach!), and will be available, along with the online workshops, for 30 days. Work is chosen at random, by genre for the panel, and we will get through as many pieces as we can.

View the workshop schedule here: https://manuscriptacademy.com/summer-academy-workshop-schedule

Get ready for fall, polish your pages, spend hours with agents—and meet and mingle with your talented, thriving community.

We hope you can join us!

All best,
Jessica, Julie, John, Alice, Kelly, Ruqayyah, Ivan, Cameron & The Manuscript Academy + #MSWL + ManuscriptWishList.com Team