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| Inklings Literary Agent Whitley Abell |
Literary agent Whitley Abell will help
writers gear up for the Publish Your Dreams contest by explaining the dos and
don’ts of writing query letters from 10 a.m. to noon, July 12, at the St. Louis
Writers Guild (SLWG) workshop.
Whitley, who joined Inklings Literary
Agency in 2013, will also talk about what agents look for in submissions. The
workshop will be held at the
Kirkwood Community Center, 111 S. Geyer Rd. in Kirkwood. Free to St. Louis
Writers Guild members; $5 for nonmembers.
Jennifer
Stolzer, SLWG secretary and contest coordinator, will join Whitley to explain
the Guild’s submission guidelines for the members-only Publish Your Dreams
contest. The winner will be announced Aug. 23 at SLWG’s free conference,
Writers in the Park.
Prior to joining Inklings Literary Agency, Whitley completed
successful internships with Carol Mann Agency and P.S. Literary Agency. She is
based in St. Louis, Mo., where she daylights as a production manager for
several medical and S & T journals. She graduated in 2011 BA in English and
Creative Writing, and again in 2012 with a MAT in Secondary English Education,
which basically means she can tell you anything there is to know about feminist
literary theory and the Common Core Standards. Whitley is primarily interested
in Young Adult, Middle Grade, and select Upmarket Women's fiction.
The winner of
SLWG’s Publish Your Dreams contest and entries from other Missouri Writers’
Guild chapters will be submitted to Walrus Publishing Inc. for possible
publication. If the SLWG manuscript is selected, it will be placed on their editorial
schedule for publication between Winter 2015 and Summer 2016, said Walrus
founder Lisa Miller. If not selected, Walrus will provide a one-page review of
the manuscript with recommendations for editorial assistance.
Learn more
about the St. Louis Writers Guild at www.stlwritersguild.org
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