I’m thrilled to announce the Pitch Wars Mentor Critique Workshop featuring some of our talented current and past mentors! The mentors will help some lucky winners of the drawing shine up their queries or first pages. We will try to post all the critiques on the blog, so that even those who didn’t win a critique in the drawing can view and learn from them. Please only enter if you’re willing to have everyone see it. All critiques will be anonymous – no writer names or titles of work will be listed.
This is for all genres in the middle grade, young adult, new adult, and adult categories of fiction. Winners will be announced on August 18 at 10AM (the drawing will close 8/17 at 11;59PM) Eastern and winners will receive an email, so be ready to submit your sample for critique immediately.You will have until August 19 at 10AM Eastern 48 hours from the date of your instruction email to get your query or first page to us. If you miss the window, your critique will be given away.
What if I’m not sure I’m going to enter Pitch Wars? That’s okay! Everyone is welcomed to enter the giveaway.
All you have to do is to enter the rafflecopters below. Here is a list of our fabulous mentors participating in the workshop.
Adult …
Adult or New Adult …
Kerbie Addis with Ren Hutchings
Ren Hutchings with Kerbie Addis
Middle Grade …
Middle Grade or Young Adult …
Young Adult …
Deborah Falaye with co-mentor, Ciannon Smart
Diana Gallagher with Katrina Emmel
Katrina Emmel with Diana Gallagher
Young Adult or New Adult …
Alex Reda with Renée A. Price
Renée A. Price with Alex Reda
Young Adult or Adult …
What an amazing list of talent, right? Give our current and past mentors a thank you by following them on their social media accounts and saying hi! Also, make sure to check out their books!
Enter both rafflecopters for a chance to win one of the query or first page critiques. You can enter both giveaways, but can only win one critique.
We have winners!
Each winner will receive an email with instructions on what to send to Pitch Wars for their critique and where to send it. It will take a few days to get all the emails out, so please keep checking your emails and spam filters.
Query Critique Winners from Rafflecopter …
2141 A.Z. Louise
286 Abigail Burke
738 Addison Armstrong
164 Adrienne Deeb
2149 Airlie Maria Heung
2090 Alice Witten
1037 Amanda Dejong
577 Amanda Solimando
398 Amy Hillman
545 Angela Super
927 Ariel Odinson
462 Beth McGoldrick
1526 Bethany Hensel
1681 Bill Reagan
2431 Brittany Valdez
823 Carol Zink
2373 Chris V. Davis
1984 Christina Tolan
1860 Christine Berman
452 Crystal Hanlon
129 Dani Tamura
630 Elena Horne
1347 Elle Evans
2024 Emmett Nahil
1518 Fay Lane
57 Gates Palissery
292 Hanna Rabb
205 Jake Maia Arlow
109 Janeal Downs
9 Jennifer Gosselin
1300 Jenny Peterson
1233 Jiayu Zhang
77 Joel Brigham
895 Jonathan Lane
1750 Josie Smith
346 Justin hill
2012 Katja
1866 Kelley barcellona
2397 Kjell Hilding
2463 Kristi McManus
602 Laura Burge
1838 Laura Mitzner
1894 Lika Roberts
1661 Melissa McDaniel
1882 Michael Lachman
629 Michael Lunsford
2410 Naomi Lisa Shippen
588 Nikita Pavlov
1762 Patrice Carey
509 Patrick Thornton
221 Phoebe
1669 Rachel O’Day
884 Raegan
424 Renae
637 Reyna Marder Gentin
89 Ryan James Black
1548 Saira Umar
2467 Sam Elyse Brockschmidt
669 Sarah Sandhu
2381 Shelly Jarvis Lusk
1448 Stevie Turner
496 Susan Boles
803 Susan Chan
924 Suya Lee
249 Tara Santora
1404 Taylor Morgen
1598 Tim Dillon
1854 Tineke Peeters
397 Tonya Preece
348 Tyree Brown
1224 Warda Egal
975 Wendy Greenley
667 Wilfred Keeley
2230 Yevhenii Pokutnii
1169 Yvonne Avery
2165 Zya Mo
First Page Critique Winners from Rafflecopter …
108 Ada Nnadi
773 Addison Armstrong
1435 Alaa Al-Barkawi
1785 Alice Short
1509 Alison Aldridge
2083 Allison Latzko
2447 Alyce Black
842 Amanda Meekhael
282 Amber
2505 Amina Maikori
2195 Andrew Phillips
2103 Aneeqah
380 Angie Gentile-Jordan
1918 Annika Jersild
609 Anoop Judge
2331 Baptiste Pinson
1072 Beau
1725 Bill Reagan
1252 Bonnie Staring
2211 Brett Peery
1521 Bridget Grenolds
1372 Bruce Meisterman
1316 Camille Singer
35 Cari Z
372 Chandra Fisher
2002 Charles Femia
1561 Chris Gibilisco
2063 Chris Paxman
1752 Christine Zimmerman
1368 Cindy Schmidt
2235 Corinne Jean-Jacques
1614 Cortney Winn
2609 Danielle Trice
1234 Daramola Isaac
1137 David
446 Dee Keymel
870 Deshaun Hershel
1481 Eduardo Hormazabal
161 Elena Pearce Buckley
2014 Emily Tipton
1553 Faerl Torres
890 Gabriella Buba
942 Gail Wilson
329 Gary Stothers
1321 Gia Davis
312 Ifty Finn
2339 J. Leigh Smart
1044 J.M. Yale
1296 Jana Keir
2395 Janelle McCurdy
1364 Jean Pace
894 Jen Cox
1011 Jennifer Archer
165 Jess A. Short
647 Jihad Baydoun
639 Josephine Queen
2475 Julie Zantopoulos
2250 Karla Hernandez
190 Karri Allen
1894 Kathleen Maggio
111 Katie Wilson
1982 Kelly Ohlert
2010 Kia Dennis
308 Melissa Miles
323 Sheryl Witschorke
1052 Srinidhi Polkampally
782 Sylvia Patience
572 Tanvi
1437 Taylor Ann Hernandez
1512 Will Tansley
1626 Yong Takahashi
8 Comments
Wilf Keeley · August 13, 2019 at 3:57 pm
Brilliant idea.
Sylvia Patience · August 13, 2019 at 4:22 pm
Thanks for this opportunity.
David · August 13, 2019 at 7:01 pm
Thanks to all you mentors for taking the time and effort to do this. A wonderful opportunity!
Chris Gibilisco · August 14, 2019 at 9:35 am
This service definitely is a game changer for new/amateur authors, giving them the chance/experience of exposure and feedback they may never otherwise acquire.
Susan Paxton · August 15, 2019 at 12:53 pm
I love the opportunities that Pitch Wars gives to unpublished writers. Thanks!
Naomi Lisa Shippen · August 17, 2019 at 8:12 pm
Thank you for this opportunity to have a mentor review my first page and query letter.
Nancy West · August 17, 2019 at 8:20 pm
Thank you for running this contest!
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