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2019 Agents & Editors Conference
Update 3/7/19: MEET THE KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
Consultations: Mark Your Calendars for April 10.
Make Your Hotel Reservation Soon!
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Hello, 2019 A&E Conference Registrants!
The 2019 Agents & Editors Conference is just a few months away, which means it's time to start checking items off of your conference "to-do" list. This is the first of a series of pre-conference mailers meant to help you do just that. Keep an eye out for more emails like this with useful information. If you worry that you missed one, you can always check the conference page at our
website, where each mailer will be posted.
In this mailer, you'll find the following:
- introductions to the conference keynote speakers
- information on one-on-one consultations (the date to keep in mind: April 10),
- a reminder about hotel room reservations (act fast, before our block sells out!), and
- details on where you can find interviews with our visiting agents and editors.
- a link to our Facebook event page.
Of course, if you have questions on anything here--or anything else A&E Conference related--give us a call. We're always happy to hear from you.
We're looking forward to seeing you in Austin soon!
-- WLT Staff
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MEET THE SATURDAY KEYNOTE SPEAKERS
KEYNOTE LUNCHEON
Award-winning poet Naomi Shihab Nye
All luncheon attendees will receive a copy of Naomi's latest book
with a signing to follow her speech.
Naomi Shihab
Nye is the author of numerous books of poems, including Transfer; You and Yours, which received the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award; 19 Varieties of Gazelle: Poems of the Middle East, a collection of new and selected poems about the Middle East; Fuel; Red Suitcase; and Hugging the Jukebox. She is also the author of several books of poetry and fiction for children, including Habibi, for which she received the Jane Addams Children's Book Award. Nye was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to a Palestinian father and an American mother. During her high school years, she lived in Ramallah in Palestine, the Old City in Jerusalem, and San Antonio, Texas.
Nye gives voice to her experience as an Arab-American through poems about heritage and peace that overflow with a humanitarian spirit. About her work, the poet William Stafford has said, "her poems combine transcendent liveliness and sparkle along with warmth and human insight. She is a champion of the literature of encouragement and heart. Reading her work enhances life." Nye's honors include awards from the International Poetry Forum and the Texas Institute of Letters, the Carity Randall Prize, and four Pushcart Prizes. She has been a Lannan Fellow, a Guggenheim Fellow, and a Witter Bynner Fellow. In 1988, she received the Academy of American Poets' Lavan Award, judged by W. S. Merwin. She served as a Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets from 2010 to 2015.
This is a ticketed event and space is limited. Tickets will go on sale in April.
EVENING KEYNOTE ADDRESS
Bestselling memoirist and cartoonist Tom Hart
Tom Hart
is the author of The Art of the Graphic Memoir: Tell Your Story, Change Your Life and the NY Times #1 bestselling memoir Rosalie Lightning, which has been translated into French, Italian, Portuguese and Chinese, was featured on many "best of 2016" lists, and was nominated for two Eisner Awards. He is also teh creator of the Hutch Owen series of graphic novels and books, including
The Collected Hutch Owen, which was nominated for best graphic novel in 2000. he was a core instructor at New York City's School of Visual Arts for 10 years, teaching cartooning to undergraduates, working adults, and teens. He currently lives in Gainesville, Florida, and runs the Sequential Artists Workshop.
The Evening Keynote Address is free and open to all conference registrants.
All reception attendees will receive a copy of Tom's book
The Art of the Graphic Memoir: Tell Your Story, Change Your Life with a signing to follow his speech.
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The conference venue, the Hyatt Regency Austin, has set aside a block of discounted rooms for A&E Conference registrants for dates before, during, and after the event.
- To learn about the hotel and book your rooms, click here.
Rooms are filling quickly, so book now if you want to be assured a spot.
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AGENT/EDITOR CONSULTATIONS
Consultations are 10-minute one-on-one meetings with an agent or editor. They will take place throughout the day on Saturday, June 29 and the morning of Sunday, June 30.
If you register for the A&E Conference by April 2, you are entitled to a complimentary consultation with an agent or editor. A link to the consultation preference form will be emailed to you on April 10. This form will ask you to rank your top choices for your consultation appointment.
Consultations will be assigned first come, first served.
We recommend that you fill out and submit the preference form as soon as possible in order to have the best chance of receiving an appointment with one of your top choices. At this time, all registrants are limited to no more than one (1) consultation.
DATES TO KNOW
April 10: Consultation preference form available - you'll receive an email with a link to the form.
May 22: Everyone is notified of the agent they received for their first
consultation. First possible day to purchase a second
consultation ($50/each), pending availability
June 12: All consultation schedules will be sent out.
Any questions? Now's the time to ask! Give us a call at 512-499-8914, or email us at [email protected].
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MEET THE AGENTS AND EDITORS
Our 2019 A&E Conference faculty includes notable literary agents who represent best-selling and award-winning authors and have sold books to big presses and indie presses alike, plus editors who have published some of the most exciting books of the past few years.
- To meet our agents, click here.
- To meet our editors, click here .
We've started sharing interviews with the agents and editors on our blog,
Scribe, and we'll continue posting additional interviews as they come in.
- To read agent and editor Q&As, visit our blog, Scribe.
We also highly recommend doing your own independent research on the agents and editors by visiting their websites. Another resource we suggest is agent/editor social media accounts, where you may find interviews they've done with other organizations in the past. In short: the more research you do, the better!
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Join the Facebook event page for the 2019 Agents & Editors Conference. It's the best place to meet fellow attendees ahead of time, ask questions, and communicate with others about sharing rooms or rides. Find it here.
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Conference Updates to Come
Be Looking for More Emails with This Information
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Consultations: On April 10, we will send an email with the link to the preference form.
Keynote Luncheon: Stay tuned for the opportunity to purchase tickets to the Keynote Luncheon (Saturday, June 29).
Speaker, Presenter and Panelist Bios: Nearly 100 authors, publicists, booksellers, and other industry professionals will speak at the conference. We'll be sharing information about these participants in the weeks leading up to the event.
A Sneak Peak at the Conference Program: Panels, presentations, genre meetings, exhibitors, receptions, the Pitch Lab, and more.
The conference program will be available on the website no later than June 17.
Finally, be sure to check out the A&E Conference FAQs for the answers to questions you may not even know you have. (And, remember, you can also call us at 512-499-8914 anytime!)
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This project is supported in part by the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department.
Visit Austin at NowPlayingAustin.com.
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Writers' League of Texas classes and workshops are also funded in part by the Texas Commission on the Arts - Investing in a Creative Texas. For more information, go to
www.arts.texas.gov
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This project is also supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. To find out more about how National Endowment for the Arts grants impact individuals and communities,
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