Win a written manuscript critique (up to 30 pages) plus a 30-minute phone or Zoom follow-up call with bestselling author Jennifer Weiner!

Adult fiction or nonfiction only.

Jennifer Weiner is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty-one books, including The Griffin Sister's Greatest Hits, That Summer; Big Summer, Mrs. Everything, In Her Shoes, Good in Bed, and a memoir in essays, Hungry Heart. She has appeared on many national television programs, including Today and Good Morning America, and her work has been published in The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, among other newspapers and magazines. Jennifer lives with her family in Philadelphia. Visit her online at JenniferWeiner.com.

Win a manuscript review of a full YA or MG novel, including a one-page critique and margin comments, from author Francisco X. Stork.

Francisco X. Stork emigrated from Mexico at the age of nine with his mother and his adoptive father. He is the author of eleven novels including Marcelo in the Real World, recipient of the Schneider Family Book Award and Disappeared, a Walter Dean Myers Award Honor Book. His latest novel One Last Chance to Live, was published September 2024.

Win a critique of the first 50 pages of your adult fiction manuscript from Kathleen Barber, certified book coach and author! Kathleen will offer a line edit of your manuscript of a specified length delivered via email.

Winner will also receive a signed copy of Kathleen's most recent book, Both Things Are True.

Kathleen Barber is the author of Truth Be Told (originally published as Are You Sleeping and adapted into a series on AppleTV+), Follow Me, Both Things Are True, and the forthcoming Sisterhood Above All (with Amayah Shaienne), and a certified book coach. A graduate of the University of Illinois and Northwestern University School of Law, Kathleen now lives in Washington, DC, with her husband and children.

Win a 60-minute brainstorming call with author and book coach Cordelia Jensen. Get help to move forward the start of a story idea, talk through the muddy middle, or figure out the perfect ending - or whatever you need most! Ahead of the call, you may provide a story synopsis and/or outline and up to 40 sample pages. For Middle Grade and YA manuscripts.

Cordelia Jensen is the author of four MG/YA verse novels: Lilac and the Switchback (Holiday House), Every Shiny Thing (Abrams, co-authored with Laurie Morrison), Skyscraping and The Way the Light Bends (Penguin Random House.) Cordelia is also a certified book coach through Authors Accelerator, has her MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from VCFA and has taught creative writing in a variety of settings, including at Bryn Mawr College. She currently teaches novel in verse specific classes for Boyds Mills.