Saturday September 28, 2019, 1:30-4:30pm

Do you have a query letter ready to send, but would like a professional review before doing so? Attend NHWP’s Dear Agent workshop for a thorough review of your query letter, with suggestions on ways to improve and strengthen it. Even if your letter isn’t quite ready, come along anyway and learn some helpful tips, including criteria for creating an effective query. Examples of both strong and struggling will be show by way of example and instruction.

Amanda Forbes Silva is a creative nonfiction writer and independent content editor, dedicated to fostering community via the written word and eager to support fellow writers in their own artistic endeavors while also pursuing her own.  Her work has been published in bioStories – later anthologized in bioStories’ Mothers and Other Creatures, Empty Sink, Emrys Journal, The Riding Light Review, Silver Birch Press, and Vine Leaves Literary Journal – later anthologized in The Best of Vine Leaves Literary Journal 2012.  Educated abroad, and later at the University of South Carolina (BA, 2004), Dartmouth College (MA, 2008), and Vermont College of Fine Arts (MFA, 2012), Amanda nurtured a passion for reading and writing and a commitment to lifelong learning. She has broad experience in teaching, freelance consulting, and developmental editing. Her current work focuses specifically on editorial collaboration with authors and their book manuscripts, always with the goal of helping the writers to realize the best version of their work.  As a copywriter at the helm of her own content house, Cast Iron Content, Amanda Silva is personally motivated to provide opportunities for fellow creatives to pursue their passions and talents in a professional setting. Away from her desk, she acts in commercials and reads as often as possible, eager to instill her love of books in her young son.

WHERE:  The Ford House on SNHU Campus.

WHEN:  Saturday September 28, 2019, 1:30-4:30pm

COST:  $65 for NHWP members or $85 for nonmembers