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- CRIME WRITING WORKSHOP
- PITCH AN AGENT
- TRANSLATION WORKSHOP

CRIME WRITING WORKSHOP
Inspired by the Book Passage Mystery Writers Conference, CRIMEFEST is organising a crime writing workshop for aspiring writers. Tutoring the workshop will be Peter Guttridge and Janet Laurence.

The workshop includes an intensive Thursday afternoon class, a one-on-one assessment of submitted work on Friday or Saturday, panels on various aspects of writing, and a brief round-up on Sunday afternoon.

As part of the registration fee students will also be able to enter the Crime Writers' Association's Debut Dagger Writing Competition.

The registration fee for the crime writing workshop is £90. Please note that this workshop is only open to delegates with a Full CRIMEFEST Pass. (Unless the buyer also signs up for a Full CRIMEFEST Pass, a £10 refund fee will be charged for incorrect bookings.)

Register for the crime writing workshop

TUTORS:

Peter
Peter Guttridge is the Observer's crime fiction critic and the author of the award-winning Nick Madrid series. He has taught writing workshops for many years at literature festivals, the Arvon Foundation and in Skyros, Greece.

Janet
Janet Laurence has written two series of crime novels: the Darina Lisle culinary mysteries and three Canaletto mysteries. She is the author of Writing Crime Fiction - Making Crime Pay, and has run a number of writing workshops, including ones for the Arvon Foundation and the Cheltenham Spring Festival. She has also been a Visiting Fellow/Writer in Residence three times at Jane Franklin Hall College, part of the University of Tasmania.

 

PITCH AN AGENT
Are you an aspiring author looking for an agent? If so, CRIMEFEST is pleased to announce the return of its PITCH AN AGENT in 2010. Top agents will be at CRIMEFEST and aspiring crime writers will have 10 minutes to pitch their manuscripts to them. Consider it speed dating for an agent! (Authors represented by these agencies include Lee Child, Martina Cole, John Connolly, Tana French, Steve Hague, Paul Johnston and E.V. Seymour.)

There are only 16 slots, and the registration fee is for a slot is £25. Please note that PITCH AN AGENT is only open to delegates with a Full CRIMEFEST Pass. (Unless the buyer also signs up for a Full CRIMEFEST Pass, a £10 refund fee will be charged for incorrect bookings.)

Participants will be required to submit the first 3,000 words of their manuscript, together with a brief synopsis (of up to 1,500 words) by the 16th of April 2010. All the PITCH AN AGENT slots sold out in 2009, so book early to avoid disappointment.

REGISTER for the crime writing workshop PITCH AN AGENT.

THE AGENTS:

Camilla Bolton is the Crime and Thriller Associate Agent at the Darley Anderson Literary TV & Film Agency. She studied English Literature and Psychology at Cardiff University, specialising in novel writing and abnormal psychology. In 2003 she co-founded a successful business and worked on this until 2005, when she decided to follow her love of stories. After gaining a distinction from the University of the Arts, she worked for a national newspaper until she joined the Darley Anderson Agency in 2007. The Darley Anderson Agency is an international market leader for commercial crime and thrillers, and represents No.1 bestselling authors such as Lee Child, John Connolly, Martina Cole, and Tana French.

"There are agents. There are good agents. There are super agents. And then there's Darley Anderson." - Lee Child

Broo Doherty, of Wade & Doherty Literary Agency, has worked in publishing for the last twenty years and has had a variety of different roles throughout the industry. She started as a production assistant at Victor Gollancz and moved to Hodder & Stoughton for a brief period before joining Transworld as an editor for the Bantam Press imprint where she was involved with authors such as David Gemmell, Anthony Holden and Jilly Cooper. Then she joined a literary agency as the editorial director before setting up Wade and Doherty almost five years ago. Broo handles all genres, excluding children's books and science fiction, but focuses her attention on crime, commercial women's fiction, literary fiction and quirky non-fiction.

David Headley is the Managing Director of DHH Literary Agency. He studied theology in London and Durham before creating Goldsboro Books, an independent bookseller in London. He spent 10 years developing the company and building many contacts in all of the UK's publishing houses. He created the UK's largest collectors' book club and is influential in selling large amounts of hardback fiction in the UK. In 2008 David created DHH Literary—a new agency that enables him to concentrate on discovering new talent in fiction writing. He is only looking to represent fiction writers currently. In his spare time he reads for pleasure as well as travelling all over Europe visiting cities. He likes different, quirky and something that may challenge.

 

TRANSLATION WORKSHOP
(No knowledge of foreign languages required!)
This is an opportunity for attendees to be active participants rather than passive listeners. Award-winning translator Ros Schwartz, co-translator of Dominique Manotti's Lorraine Connection (winner of the 2008 International Dagger), demonstrates what a translator has in common with a sleuth. And it's a lot more than meets the eye: following up clues, pursuing leads, tracking down elusive words and expressions, forensic attention to detail. Put your wits to the test in this hands-on 2 hour workshop on Sunday, 23 May at 2pm.

The registration fee for the translation workshop is £5 and does not require a CRIMEFEST registration.

 

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