1 Session: Sunday, May 19
3:00-5:30pm ET
Mary Alice Stewart

Mary Alice Stewart has been an Assistant Agent under Annie DeWitt at The Shipman Agency for three years, while also grinding it out as a writer herself. Her fiction has appeared in Joyland, No Tokens, Washington Square Review, and elsewhere. She is at work on a novel. She is from Maine.

This seminar will discuss the nitty-gritty, "industry standard" query from the perspective of an Assistant Agent. We will go over often overlooked basics and effective ways to communicate your creative projects in hopes of making it out of the slush pile. In the spirit of “demystifying,” this lecture HOPES to center the work, the writer, above all else, in an industry that though is beholden to art, is also beholden to capitalism.

Workshop Highlights:

• “Why should you be immortal? You—among anyone else—why should the Gods choose you?” (From Epic of Gilgamesh)

• KEEP IT SIMPLE

• Writing itself is what counts