June 5 – 9, 2017
Writers’ Retreat in Sheepwash, Devon.
Sara Sarre – First Chapter Workshop
Your first chapter is what will sell your novel time and time again: to your agent, your publisher, the marketing team and eventually to your reader. It needs to be good. The week will be dedicated to the opening line, the first paragraph and finally, the first chapter. We’ll look at how to hook your reader and to get your characters to leap off the page. Along with this, we’ll discuss the submission process and how to summarise your story.
Cost: £430 Monday lunchtime to Friday lunchtime, June 5 – 9. Price includes accommodation in own room with shared bathroom, breakfast, lunch, afternoon tea and dinner (wine included).
There will be three afternoon workshops and each participant will receive an hour long, one to one session with Sara. Bluepencilagency will give follow up advice on approaching literary agencies with promising authors.
£50 deposit, balance payable 4 weeks before retreat begins. For more details and availability go to www.retreatsforyou.co.uk, tel 01409 231252.
Please note that the recordings aren’t professionally edited and may not be passed on under any circumstances.
Copyright remains with the tutor.
Emma is responsible for BPA’s bespoke programme of literary events and retreats as well as managing the First Novel Award and submissions to literary agents. With a background in communications and special events she has an eye for detail and a desire to give writers the best possible experience in an imaginative programme of events. Her retreats at Asthall Manor, the childhood home of the Mitford sisters with guest tutors including Tessa Hadley and Claire Fuller have set a new benchmark in literary experiences. The First Novel Award now in its third year has proved remarkably successful for writers with five of the 2018 shortlist gaining agent representation. With an up to date knowledge of what literary agents are looking for, Emma offers a reading service and advises writers with a polished manuscript which agents to approach and how best to ensure your work gets read. She also contacts agents on behalf of writers where there is a potential match.
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