event 2 - coach camp publishers
coach camp details
september 6th - sunday 9am-4pm
coach camp day - in-person and on-line
Event ticket 2 holders receive a day of coaching and manuscript and illustration assessments from publishers plus an expert workshop.
Specific written assessment/s from your Coach.
Group discussion (max. 5 per group) on each work-in-progress to help your understanding of what publishers look for in submissions.
Direction on next steps to improve your manuscript/illustration.
Time to edit your work.
A second round of Coach feedback.
A ‘Write a Pro Pitch’ workshop with 2018 Pitch It! competition winner and award-winning author Stef Gemmill
Invitiation to submit a manuscript/illustration to your Coach
Publisher Q&A panel in-person (on-line campers provide questions and receive Q&A summary)
Network with creatives and publishers over lunch and leave your business card on the fun Connect wall to stay in touch (in-person).
All day catering, beach walks and ocean views (in-person).
Testimonial
“I attended the first Coach Camp last year - and it is now firmly in my annual calendar. Even though I am a published author, there are limited opportunities to submit to publishers. I also wanted to workshop a different style of picture book. Our Coach Camp group was small, which gave me the opportunity to connect one-on-one with my chosen publisher. In a relaxed space, Alyson O’Brien (Little Book Press) gave me positive, creative and perceptive feedback on my stories. I was able to work on my most promising story and submit it to her.
This type of workshop is now, very often, the only way (and the best way) we can submit stories to publishers and it gives us an immediate sense if this publishing house would be open to our style and theme. Coach Camp is an incredible opportunity to connect, to be inspired and to gain inside knowledge about the kidlit industry.”
Diane Jackson-Hill
Here are the publisher coaches & genres;
Tash Besliev (Simon&Schuster/Affirm) - PB/CB
Eve Tonelli (Walker Books) - PB/author-illus/MG/YA
Alyson O’Brien (Little Book Press) - PB/author-illus (in-person & on-line)
Kate Whitfield (Affirm Press) - MG/YA
Chren Byng (Hardie Grant Children’s) - PB/author-illus/CB
Dani Vee (Larrikin House) - PB/author-illus/CB/MG/YA/GN (in-person & on-line)
Please note: While all publishers, speakers and workshop coaches have confirmed their appearance, no responsibility can be accepted for changes which are beyond the festival’s control.
What to submit
Submission of 2 x BB/PB manuscript text only max. 500 words or 1 non-fiction PB of up to 800 words incl back matter synopsis ie. glossary words not definitions, fun facts headers only
OR author-illustrators 1 x BB/PB manuscript text max. 500 words plus artwork of 1 A4 rough sketch plus 1 colour finished art
OR first 2,000 CB/MG/YA words plus max. 600 word synopsis
All work sumbmitted in ONE Word.doc or PDF document due 2 Aug. If booking after 2 Aug please submit WIP immediately.
Email to info @sketchandscribefest.com
Abbrev: BB/PB (board/picture book), CB (chapter books incl. junior fiction & short novels up to 30k words for readers up to age of 12 years with non-adolescent themes), MG (middle grade 10+ yr), YA (young adult 16+ yr), GN (graphic novel), Author-illustrator(author that illustrates)
meet your coaches
