"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.

Return to Maine Literary Festival website.

Judith Daniels

Judith Daniels, now a fulltime Maine resident, was a magazine editor in New York City for almost 30 years. Career stops included New York Magazine, The Village Voice, Savvy (a women's lifestyle and business magazine she created), Life, Glamour and Self. She is a co-founder and past president of the Women's Media Group. Daniels also taught at the New York University  and Columbia University journalism schools. In Maine she continues to edit, lecture and consult and regularly fantasizes about starting English Major Magazine.

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