Hooking Your Reader: Writing A Killer First Line Zoom Seminar, February 25th, 2023
Saturday, February 25th, 2023
Now Enrolling!
Live Seminar via Zoom from 11:00AM - 12:30PM EST
Open to All writers!
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Taught by Meg Eden, a 2020 Pitch Wars mente and the author of five poetry chapbooks, the novel Post-High School Reality Quest (2017), the poetry collection Drowning in the Floating World (2020), and the forthcoming novel-in-verse Good Different, a JLG Gold Standard Selection (Scholastic, 2023). She is also a participating author with the PEN/Faulkner Writers in Schools program.
Most editors of both magazines and presses will say that they read the first, last and middle page of a story before deciding if they want to read more. Potential readers are even less forgiving.
When I pick up a new book, if the first line doesn’t hook me, I probably won’t continue reading. So how do we snag our readers and make them want to read more?
In this seminar, we’ll look at examples of powerful first lines and discuss strategies for selecting a powerful first line. Feel free to bring the first line of your story or novel for a mini first-line “workshop”!
- You are a new writer wanting to learn about first pages and lines.
- You are querying and are trying to strengthen your page sample submissions, or wondering what agents are looking for.
- You are working on a new project or revising an old one, and are not sure if your opening is working yet.
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Class is on Saturday, February 25th 2023, via Zoom from 11:00AM EST - 12:30PM EST
If you have questions, please use the Chat Button or contact us via email HERE.
Instructor Meg Eden is a 2020 Pitch Wars mentee. She is the author of five poetry chapbooks, the novel Post-High School Reality Quest (2017), the poetry collection Drowning in the Floating World (2020), and the forthcoming novel-in-verse Good Different, a JLG Gold Standard Selection (Scholastic, 2023). She is also a participating author with the PEN/Faulkner Writers in Schools program. Her work is published or forthcoming in magazines, including Writer’s Digest, Prairie Schooner, The Rumpus, Poetry Northwest, Crab Orchard Review, RHINO, and CV2. Meg received her MFA in creative writing from the University of Maryland College Park.