Writers may sign up for an individual one- on-one session with the publisher or literary agent of their choice. Write rs will visit FPL's Walker Community Room where library staff will handle the technology used to connect virtually with agents and publishers. Pitch es are verbal and \;are limited to 10 minutes.
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\nPublishers and agents featured: \;
\nAllison Blevins serves as the Director of Small Harbor Publishing. Small Harbor Pub lishing was formed in July 2020. Their goal is to publish unique and diver se voices. They are a feminist press and are committed to diversity and in clusion\, striving to fiercely promote the work of our authors and to brin g new voices to a devoted and expanding readership.
\nJeanne Devlin is the founding editor of The RoadRunner Press\, an award -winning traditional publishing house based in Oklahoma City. The RoadRunn er Press is dedicated to bringing the best literary and artistic talent of our region to the world\, along with kindred talents from farflung places . They believe all of us are better for having all the voices who call thi s planet home represented in their titles. RoadRunner specializes in thoug htful juvenile and young adult fiction\, and also publishes select adult f iction and nonfiction titles. \;
\nAlyssa Maltese is a literary agent at Root Literary seeking young adult fiction\, adul t fiction\, and adult nonfiction. In the YA vein\, she is interested in co ntemporary fiction with speculative\, romantic\, or light fantasy elements \, and high-stakes horror \;imbedded with social commentary. For adult fiction\, she is seeking commercial thrillers\, horror\, and domestic sus pense\, and speculative \;fiction with female-centric concepts and/or technology-related sci-fi elements. She is also open to prescriptive and r esearch-driven narrative nonfiction from authors with an established exper tise and audience\, on topics such as psychology\, mental health\, death\, sex\, science pertaining to nature and animals\, and pop culture. Alyssa joined the agency in 2019 and lives in Los Angeles with her husband and di sobedient cat\, though she will always be a Jersey girl at heart.
\nCaitlin McDonald joined Donald Maass Literary Agency in 2 015. She represents adult and young adult speculative fiction\, primarily science-fiction\, fantasy\, horror\, and related subgenres. She is also se eking graphic novels along the same lines as above. Caitlin looks for dive rsity in all projects\, and \;is most drawn to unique\, evocative narr atives and cross-genre works\, \;with an emphasis on high-impact stori es that have something powerful to say. \;Some of her clients include C.L. Polk\, Caitlin Starling\, A.J. Hackwith\, Lara Elena Donnelly\, and E mma Mieko Candon.
\nEric Smith is a Young Adult aut hor and literary agent from Philadelphia. As an agent with P.S. Literary h e's looking for Middle Grade and Young Adult fiction and non-fiction\, adu lt literary \;fiction that does a bit of genre blending\, and non-fict ion of all kinds\, from pop history to wellness titles to essay collection s. To get an idea of his list and the kind of books he works on\, you can visit his website at www.ericsmit hrocks.com. \;
\nAnn Leslie Tuttle joined D ystel\, Goderich &\; Bourret in 2017 after working for 20 years at Harl equin Books where she most recently was a Senior Editor. She is actively a cquiring women&rsquo\;s fiction\, contemporary romance\, rom coms\, romant ic suspense\, Southern Gothics\, thrillers\, mysteries\, narrative nonfict ion and Middle Grade. She received her B.A. degree from the College of Wil liam and Mary and an M.A. from the University of Virginia. Finding and nur turing talented new and established writers has always been Ann Leslie&rsq uo\;s passion.
\nThis event is part of the True Lit Fayetteville Lit erary Festival\, now in its 9th year. \; The festival is in collaborat ion with the Fayetteville Public Schools\, Fayetteville Public Education F oundation\, University of Arkansas Program in Creative Writing and Transla tion and Altrusa International of Fayetteville\, Arkansas.
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