Winners Announced: “Dear Lucky Agent” – Memoir and Narrative Nonfiction
A huge thank you to all 150 or so people who entered in my first “Dear Lucky Agent” contest. Agent Katharine Sands of the Sarah Jane Freymann Literary Agency looked…
A huge thank you to all 150 or so people who entered in my first "Dear Lucky Agent" contest. Agent Katharine Sands of the Sarah Jane Freymann Literary Agency looked through all submissions this past week and chose her top winner and two runners-up, each of which will receive a critique and free writing books.
The Winners
Grand-prize winner:
Bocas Time, by Forrest Walker
Runners-up:
Zen Under Fire: Learning to Sit Still in Afghanistan, by Marianne Elliott
Kitten Heels in Kathmandu: The Adventures of a Solo Female Vagabond, by Mary Bartnikowski
A LITTLE ABOUT THE CONTEST JUDGE:
Katharine Sands is an agent with the Sarah Jane Freymann Literary Agency. She is the agent provocateur for Making the Perfect Pitch: How to Catch a Literary Agent's Eye. Books she's repped include:
SAT Word Slam, by Jodi Fodor
Hands Off My Belly: The Pregnant Woman's Survival Guide to Myths, Mothers and Moods, by Shawn Tassone and Kathryn Landherr
Chuck Sambuchino is a former editor with the Writer's Digest writing community and author of several books, including How to Survive a Garden Gnome Attack and Create Your Writer Platform.
