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Hi all and welcome to this year’s list of Twitter pitch events (and beyond!). If you’re looking for how to write them, I’ve created a handy blog post here. If not, let’s move on to pitch events for 2022. You may not be able to control getting an agent, but pitch contests and mentorship contests are a great way to meet other writers, and hone your skills!

Note some of these contests are for specific groups of marginalized or underrepresented authors. Please visit the links provided for specifi...

A breeze lifted the sweaty hair from my forehead. I faced it and closed my eyes, the scent of cool spring plunging through my sinuses.

“Dig,” he said. 

I frowned and went back to it. Dirt scratched under my nails and smeared my upper lip. Sweat rolled between my shoulder blades, leaked down my spine, and met my belt where it soaked into my waistband. I relished it all. I dug as slow as I thought he’d allow, feeling every moment of ache in my arms, taking a peek at the perfect blue sky when he ...

Hi all and welcome to this year’s list of Twitter pitch events (and beyond!). If you’re looking for how to write them, I’ve created a handy blog post here. If not, let’s move on to pitch events for 2021. Notice a couple BRAND NEW contests for specific, marginalized communities!

January 15-29th, 2021 #10queries (open to all, query and first five pages contest) https://reviseresub.com/mini-events/january-2021-10queries

January 20th, 2021 #IWSGpit (open to all)  http://www.insec...

I’m a writer, OK? It’s what I do. I write fiction. Fiction. So forgive me if this story is a little…uneven. I didn’t think I’d ever write non-fiction, much less something like this. 

I’m in a few writer’s groups on Facebook and I’ve got a couple group chats on Twitter I absolutely depend on for sanity. Writing can be lonely and it’s almost always done in solitary. Even if you’re not alone in the room, you’re alone with your thoughts all the time when you’re writing. I think that’s why we fill...

Hi all and welcome to this year’s list of Twitter pitch events (and beyond!). If you’re looking for how to write them, I’ve created a handy blog post here. If not, let’s move on to pitch events for 2020:

January 15th, 2020 #IWSGpit (open to all) http://www.insecurewriterssupportgroup.com/p/iwsg-twitter-pitch.html?m=1

January 30th, 2020 #SFFpit (sci-fi and fantasy/all ages) http://dankoboldt.com/sffpit/

February 14th, 2020 (date TBD, Valentine’s Day likely) #KISSpitch (all subgenres of...

No one ever talks about the smells. Not the smell of death – everyone knows that one and the human olfactory sense isn’t sensitive enough to pick it up until decomposition is well underway. 

No, I’m talking about the smell of fresh death. Sweat. Lots of it, if they knew it was coming. Just buckets. Piss. Most people die with a full bladder, isn’t that awful? It doesn’t stay that way. Sometimes you defecate when death is sudden enough. Or, you know, if you’re really unlucky.

What you don’t know about death coul...

“There was only one dead. Thank god.” The women spoke, phones lighting their faces vaguely blue, even with the harsh light of morning streaming through the train windows. They didn’t lean into each other. Just sat there in their seats, asses spread around their hips, talking about my dead wife like it was nothing. Just another news item.

Last night it was chaos. Twitter lit up about 6:42pm with reports of a shooter at the Pines Mall. For the next hour and a half, misinformation after rumor after j...

How many times a day do you ask yourself why you love the stories you do? I know every time I look at a Supernatural GIF, read about what Molly, AKA the Thing of Evil is doing, or randomly think about what that sneaky little noise was in the corner, I wonder why I love horror. Why I always have. I bet my mom asks the same question. I would ask her, but I’m honestly a little afraid of the answer. Horror in its truest form, what others think of us!

Seriously though, what makes the things that go b...

Hi all! For a little over a year now, I’ve been querying my second novel. While I have, I’ve also been participating in every Twitter pitch party I can. I practice them all the time, rewriting new pitches about every quarter. Twitter pitches are about the hardest thing I’ve ever written, so I find practice helps.

At any rate, how to write them is a different post altogether. In this post, I wanted to share the year’s calendar with you, and I promise to update it as dates come available. There is a larg...

25 years since a virus decimated humanity. 5 since the Cure began to put things right. When Jack is abducted, his daughter Adelaide must rescue him. But his captors are leading them both to a secret which could destroy their family, and end the Cure. #Pitmad #A #H #SF

— Bethany Perry (@bperry_writes) December 6, 2018

I’ll be the first to admit, writing Twitter pitches makes me more insane than I already am. So I do it a lot. Every pitch event, I try to write a new one or perfect an old one. Even my favorite...