Here’s an awesome opportunity to get feedback on your work from the experts!
Something new we’re offering this year is “Slush Fest” sessions. These are interactive workshops, most with two faculty members—usually an editor and an agent—who will comment on participant submissions.
For any prose session, bring your query letter and the first page of your manuscript or the first two pages of your manuscript on transparencies to class. For poetry sessions, bring a poem on a transparency(ies). As you go into the class, your transparencies will be collected at the door. Selections will be picked at random, put on the overhead projector and feedback will be given to the class. This will be done anonymously. Do not put your name on your transparencies, and no one will know which one is yours except you. The idea is for faculty members to discuss what catches their attention—and what doesn’t—and why.
Most copy shops (Kinko’s, UPS Store, countless others) will make a transparency of two pages for a minimal charge. Should you need assistance, we will have transparencies at the conference, and the Hilton will make them for a small fee. You can also make them yourself in the Hilton business center.
You must bring your work to these sessions on transparencies for it to be critiqued. Please do not bring more than two pages total.