Want to be a mentor in Pitch Wars 2019? Get your applications in! You have from today until the end of day Eastern Time on July 8 to apply. Mentors are typically agented or published authors or people who have worked in the publishing industry in some capacity (including Read more…
Hey Pitch Wars! In case you missed the news during the excitement of the Agent Showcase, I will be serving as your 2019 Managing Director! I know many of you have been waiting for the announcement of our 2019 dates, so thank you for being patient with us! We made Read more…
The Agent Showcase is here! Make sure to scroll down for some exciting news!! For those who don’t know what Pitch Wars is, it’s a mentoring program where published/agented authors, editors, or industry interns choose one writer each to mentor. Mentors read the entire manuscript and offer suggestions on how Read more…
After weeks of reading and obsessing over all the fabulous entries, our amazing mentors have chosen their mentees! The mentors have worked tirelessly reading all their submissions for Pitch Wars. Behind the scenes, there’s been blood, sweat, and tears. The mentors have cried and laughed and shared how much Read more…
The submission window for Pitch Wars 2018 is now open! You have until it closes on Wednesday, August 29 at 10:00PM Eastern Time to submit your entry form. This mentorship program is open to Middle Grade, Young Adult, New Adult, and Adult completed, never before published, works of Read more…
Welcome to the mentors’ wishlist blog hop! From today until submission day, use the linkies below to hop to all the mentors’ websites/blogs to read their bios, wishlists, and what categories and genres they want to mentor. For those unfamiliar with Pitch Wars, it’s a mentoring program where published/agented Read more…
We’re excited to announce some changes to this year’s agent showcase! Over the past few months, we solicited feedback from a poll of 2016 and 2017 mentees as well as 2017 Pitch Wars agents. We believe these changes will create an agent showcase that’s less stressful for both mentees and Read more…
There’s been a lot of changes happening behind the scenes of Pitch Wars. As we strive to make our mentoring program more inclusive, we’ve cut back a little to also make it more manageable. We received so many applications from talented industry professionals that it was a difficult task to Read more…
I’m thrilled to start up our blog posts again now that our new committee is settling in with their roles and are gearing up to announce 2018 Pitch Wars mentors in a few weeks. It’s a little emotional for me too, since I miss working with Heather. But she’s doing great with her new exciting publishing adventures. Make sure to say hello to her on Twitter. I’m sure she’d love to hear from you!
Anyway, we’re so excited whenever one of our mentees gets an agent offer or a publishing deal. Celebrating these successes is one of our favorite parts of the Pitch Wars process. We hope you can join us in congratulating Nova McBee and her mentor, Pintip Dunn. Nova signed with Amy Jameson of A + B Works, and we couldn’t be happier for her! (more…)
2021 Pitch Wars Mentor applications are now closed. To receive an email when the 2022 mentor applications open, fill out the form below. As a Pitch Wars mentor, you will sort through submissions that are typical of publishing submission materials, then choose one author from those submissions to mentor. The Read more…