Book Saturday’s Storytelling & Plot Building and Sunday’s Polishing Your Submission Package workshops together, and save £40!

You know the submission package representing your novel or memoir is your biggest and best chance to hook an agent and hopefully a publishing deal – but how do you make the most of that chance?

Blue Pencil’s Emma Haynes will be joining us for this practical, all-day workshop. We’ll start by thinking about why the traditional package – covering letter, synopsis and first three chapters – evolved to give the agent or editor what they need to make a decision. We’ll then dig into each of the three elements in turn, to look at how you can make yours work better and harder for you, and what to do if the website asks for something different.

Discussion and exercises will draw on participants’ own letters, synopses and opening pages, submitted in advance, and we’ll focus on the tools needed to take each element from serviceable to sparkling. By the end of the day you should have a much clearer sense of what makes a great submission and how to make yours shine – and the confidence to get it perfect and actually send it out.

Click through to the Blue Pencil website to find out more.