Win a Joy-First Drafting workbook and hour-long zoom call with A.E. Osworth, author of We Are Watching Eliza Bright and originator of a momentum-building, praise-focused and play-centric first drafting philosophy and method. A.E. will provide that Joy-First workbook and then call to strategize with you on injecting fun into your process, especially good for folks working on long projects or difficult material.

* Open internationally. A.E. can provide feedback sometime in January.

* This item is most useful for long projects of any genre. It is not a critique.

A.E. Osworth is a transgender novelist and Visiting Assistant Professor at The Ohio State University. Their debut We Are Watching Eliza Bright (Grand Central Publishing 2021) was a finalist for the Oregon Book Award and long listed for The Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize, the Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize, and The Tournament of Books. They have taught Joy-First Drafting at Catapult, where they also teach a queer- and trans-only novel generator.