{"id":517713,"date":"2022-07-13T16:28:09","date_gmt":"2022-07-13T15:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/?page_id=517713"},"modified":"2024-02-02T15:53:17","modified_gmt":"2024-02-02T15:53:17","slug":"pitchfestival","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jerichowriters.com\/pitchfestival\/","title":{"rendered":"Pitch Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\t\t\t
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Participate in our open-to-all twitter event to try get your foot in the publishing door.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\n\t\t\t\t

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Get your foot in the door<\/h2>\r\n
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You may have heard of pitch parties \u2013 online twitter events in which authors can try their luck pitching their books to agents \u2013 well, we have a whole pitch festival for you! <\/p>\r\n <\/div>\r\n\n\n\n

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From the 1st<\/sup> August to the 5th<\/sup> August 2022, we\u2019re running a pitch day every day (9am-4pm BST) of the week, from the Jericho Writers Twitter account<\/a><\/strong>, in association with our York Festival of Writing. Each day will be dedicated to a different genre, with a different guest agent ready to read your pitches (and maybe find their next client!) <\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n

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As well as a valuable chance to practice your pitching, our dedicated agents will be interacting with the pitches they find most engaging. Those that take part will be offered a massive 20% discount on a ticket to the York Festival of Writing<\/strong><\/a>, where you\u2019ll be able to pitch to all these agents directly and connect with your genre community in-person.<\/p>\n

Pitch days are also a great way to get your ideas out there. You never know who might notice your pitch and have the connections to move it forward.<\/p>\n <\/div>\n\n \n <\/div>\n <\/div>\n\n

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Once upon a time, tweets were an excellent way to sharpen your elevator pitch – with their 140-character limit and before the implementation of threads.<\/p>\n

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Nowadays there is much more room to work with in a tweet \u2013 however, we want to keep the spirit of short, concise pitches alive.<\/p>\n

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An elevator pitch, denoted by quotation marks at either side. The elevator pitch should be as short as possible \u2013 remember, if you have an elevator pitch of 12 words or less, it’s probably a good sign your idea is saleable!\u202f <\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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A short (emphasis on short) description of your story that allows you to explain what you think makes it so good. If you wish to include a title here, you can do.\u202f<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Optionally, you might also like to include a comparable titles, to help agents identify where your book would sit in the market.\u202f<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t\t