"Ready to Be Published: A Real-World Workshop"
November 1 & 2, 2007
Camden Public Library, Picker Room

The Maine Literary Festival is expanding its highly acclaimed weekend festival to include a writers' workshop that both published and aspiring writers will want to attend. The workshop faculty features editorial expert Sara Nelson, book editor Alexis Gargagliano, and award-winning literary agent Wendy Weil. Magazine expert Judith Daniels is facilitator.

The two-day program covers preparing your materials; seeking the right outlet; demystifying the magazine masthead; approaching agents; what editors want, what editors dread; identifying the right pitch; crafting the persuasive cover letter; getting magazine assignments; networking and keeping up contacts. Group discussions and personal consultations will occur and attendees will be asked to provide in advance of their arrival a short story, a sample chapter from a book or a non-fiction article for the faculty to critique.

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Alexis Gargagliano

Alexis Gargagliano joined Scribner, Simon and Schuster in 2002 as the assistant to Nan Graham and had the opportunity to work on such books as Brick Lane by Monica Ali, Living History by Hillary Clinton, and The Glass Castle by Jeannette Walls. Alexis' own list currently includes Naama Goldstein, Charles Johnson, Julia Markus, Sarah Micklem, Lilian Nattel and Catherine Tudish. Her interests include literary fiction and narrative nonfiction. She is especially interested in projects about different cultures. Recent acquisitions include Everyman's Rules for Scientific Living by Carrie Tiffany, Golden Country by Jennifer Gilmore, The List by Tara Ison, and Untouchables by Narendra Jadhav.

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