MWW Agent Fest Online 2025 is Here!
This is an exciting moment…
We get to announce that registration for MWW Agent Fest Online 2025 is open!
We’ve put together a dynamite faculty of nine literary agents and a fantastic schedule for this year’s Agent Fest Online, November 5 – 8. This virtual conference is an opportunity for you to attend sessions, taught by nine different literary agents, about all aspects of publishing your book—from finetuning your opening pages to writing query letters to fielding the “Agent Phone Call” (and much more!).
You’ll have the opportunity to participate in our “Practice Pitch” sessions to hone your pitch, and there’s a chance you’ll get the first page of your manuscript evaluated by our agent in panel in one of the “AfterHours: First Page Read” sessions. For an additional fee, you can meet with an agent one-on-one to discuss your query letter.
What’s more—you can also pitch to three of the agents! That’s included in price of admission, but it’s not required that you pitch.
All attendees will receive available session materials and have access to the recordings for 90 days following the event
Register for Agent Fest Online 2025
Allow us to introduce you to our faculty
- Malaga Baldi; Baldi Agency
- Carey Blankenship-Kramer; Azantian Literary Agency
- Arielle Datz; Dunow, Carlson, Lerner Agency
- Tommy Dean; Rosecliff Literary
- Mark Gottlieb; Trident Media Group Literary Agency
- Heather Osborne; Spencerhill Associates
- Sophia M. Ramos; New Leaf Literary
- Alec Shane; Writers House
- Vicky Weber; Creative Media Agency
You’ll find photos, bios, and manuscript wishlists for each agent here
Take a look at these sessions
These sessions provide a panoramic view of the publishing process and area designed to help you get your manuscript in tip-top shape and help you navigate the waters of finding and working with an agent.
- Query Letters 101
- Emotional Character Arcs: What Are They and How They Can Transform Your Novel
- Comparative Titles and Genre Identification
- First Pages
- Query Smart: Finding the Right Literary Agent for You
- It Takes a Village: Discussing Community and Craft through the Publishing Lens
- Nonfiction Proposals
- Pre-publication Marketing
- Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Now What?
There’s all sorts of fun and informative extras! We will host daily “Practice Pitch” sessions to help you perfect your pitches, and there’s a chance to have your first page read by agents in our nightly “AfterHours First Page Reads” discussions.
Don’t worry if you have to miss a session—or if one of them was so good you wish you could see it again (because that will apply to all of them)—each session will be recorded on Zoom and available to you for 90 days following the conference.
Check out the full descriptions of the sessions and times here
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