The Perks of the Full-Week Experience

Afternoon seminar options for this year's Antioch Writers' Workshop Full Week Experience are filling quickly, so be sure to register soon! 

In addition to all morning classes and your choice of afternoon seminar, the Full Week Experience includes perks not available to A La Carte registrants including individual pitch sessions with visiting agents Agents Suzie Townsend (New Leaf) and Hannah Gordon (Folio Literary and Media). Both agents are interested in a wide variety of fiction and nonfiction projects and are actively looking for new clients. 

Suzie Townsend Visiting Agent

 

Hannah Gordon
Visiting Agent

Participants can also take advantage of lunch opportunities with faculty, an evening participant reading, one-on-one manuscript consultations (for additional small fee), and a reduced cost for the Saturday Seminar, a one-day writing seminar in craft, nuts and bolts, and inspiration.  

The Full Week Experience kicks off at Antioch University Midwest with a Keynote Address by author Lee Martin on the evening of Saturday, July 6 followed by a dessert and wine reception. The event concludes on Friday, July 12. 

To register for the Full Week Experience, visit our website.

For more information visit  www.antiochwritersworkshop.com or email Sharon Short at info@antiochwritersworkshop.com .

Introducing Visiting Agent Suzie Townsend

After teaching high school English for several years, Suzie Townsend started in publishing at FinePrint Literary Management in January 2009 and worked her way up from intern to agent. Now an agent at New Leaf Literary & Media, she represents adult and children's fiction. She is actively looking to build her list. In adult, she's specifically looking for romance (historical and paranormal), and fantasy (urban fantasy, science fiction, steampunk, epic fantasy). In Childrens' she loves YA (all subgenres) and is dying to find great Middle Grade projects (especially something akin to the recent movie SUPER 8). She's an active member of AAR, RWA, and SCBWI.

She’s interested in strong characters and voice driven stories: she’s particularly keen on strong female protagonists, complex plot lines with underlying political, moral, or philosophical issues, and stories which break out of the typical tropes of their genre. Some of her favorite novels (that she doesn't represent) are Ender's Game by Orson Scott Card, When You Reach Me by Rebecca Stead, How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff, Jellicoe Road and Finnikin of the Rock by Melina Marchetta, The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, Jeaniene Frost's Vampire Huntress series, Anne Bishop’s Black Jewels series, and Jacqueline Carey’s Kushiel series. She drinks too much diet orange soda, has a Starbucks problem (those soy chai lattes are addictive), and lives in New York with two dogs who know that chewing on shoes is okay but chewing on books is not.