Out on Submission: A Publishing Panel and Query Bootcamp
Tennessee Williams and New Orleans Literary Festival
Friday, March 19 | 2 – 3:30 PM
Live via Zoom
Get an insider’s look at the publishing process—your manuscript’s journey from the slush pile to the book shop. Four rising-star agents will share their expertise and enthusiasm during a 45- minute panel discussion about building lists, creating audiences, and making deals. After a short break, the panel will be followed by a query bootcamp, during which each participant will have ten-minutes of one-on-one coaching with an agent who will provide professional feedback on query letters submitted in advance. Submission instructions will be sent upon registration. Moderated by New Orleans author C. Morgan Babst, agents include Reiko Davis and Jacey Mitziga with DeFiore and Company; Sarah Gerton with Curtis Brown, and Jade Wong-Baxter from Frances Goldin Literary Agency, Inc.
Deadline to register: March 7. Limit 20 participants.
Lily King and C. Morgan Babst on the Writing Life
Tennessee Williams and New Orleans Literary Festival
Sunday, March 21 | 2 – 3 PM
Live via Zoom
Award-winning author Lily King spent eight years writing her debut novel, The Pleasing Hour—and has written four more since. Her most recent work, Writers and Lovers is, fittingly, a novel about commitment to writing and to oneself. With C. Morgan Babst, New Orleans essayist and author of The Floating World, King will discuss the pleasures and pitfalls of the writing life—and how to make one of your own.
Southern Storytellers: Ladee Hubbard Interviewed by C. Morgan Babst
Tennessee Williams and New Orleans Literary Festival
Sunday, March 28 | 12 – 1 PM
Zoom
Scholar and critically acclaimed author Ladee Hubbard created one of the most extraordinary families of American literature in her debut novel, The Talented Ribkins, which won the 2019 Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award for debut fiction. In The Rib King, Hubbard’s new novel, we learn the truth behind the legend of the Ribkins’ paterfamilias, a man obscured by the same fantasies that shroud much of American history. C. Morgan Babst, New Orleans essayist and author of The Floating World, will interview Hubbard about the creation of characters and character and the role of storytelling in the rectification of American myths.