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2023 Twitter Pitch Parties for Writers

**Due to the implosion of Twitter, this list is not currently being updated. We anticipate reorganizing this list in the future as pitch parties find new homes and new iterations, but we don’t know when that will be. Thank you for your patience. Pitch parties are occasional events on Twitter that help writers connect with agents and publishers. During these […]

Anatomy of a Twitter Pitch #5

Pitching on Twitter is an art form unto itself. You only have 280 characters, including hashtags and spaces, to convince a publishing professional your manuscript will be worth the read. Not an easy task! Over the next few weeks, we’ll share some of the successful pitches from #canlitpit 2021 and show why we think the pitch got hearted by publishing […]

Anatomy of a Twitter Pitch #4

Pitching on Twitter is an art form unto itself. You only have 280 characters, including hashtags and spaces, to convince a publishing professional your manuscript will be worth the read. Not an easy task! Over the next few weeks, we’ll share some of the successful pitches from #canlitpit 2021 and show why we think the pitch got hearted by publishing […]

Anatomy of a Twitter Pitch #3

Pitching on Twitter is an art form unto itself. You only have 280 characters, including hashtags and spaces, to convince a publishing professional your manuscript will be worth the read. Not an easy task! Over the next few weeks, we’ll share some of the successful pitches from #canlitpit 2021 and show why we think the pitch got hearted by publishing […]

Anatomy of a Twitter Pitch #2

Pitching on Twitter is an art form unto itself. You only have 280 characters, including hashtags and spaces, to convince a publishing professional your manuscript will be worth the read. Not an easy task! Over the next few weeks, we’ll share some of the successful pitches from #canlitpit 2021 and show why we think the pitch got hearted by publishing […]

Anatomy of a Twitter Pitch #1

Pitching on Twitter is an art form unto itself. You only have 280 characters, including hashtags and spaces, to convince a publishing professional your manuscript will be worth the read. Not an easy task! Over the next few weeks, we’ll share some of the successful pitches from #canlitpit 2021 and show why we think the pitch got hearted by publishing […]

Pitch party for Canadians #canlitpit launches this week

#canlitpit, the Twitter pitch party for Canadians, is happening this Thursday, August 12, from 9 am to 9 pm. The event, now hosted by WritingCommunity.ca, was founded by DigiWriting.com in 2016. #canlitpit is a Twitter pitch party just for Canadians. During the #canlitpit event, Canadian writers can pitch completed, polished manuscripts via tweet for agents, editors, and publishers to peruse. […]

Literary Journals in Canada

Past publication history looks great in an author bio, and literary journals are a great way to get your work out there without the typical wait times of traditional book publishing. Poetry, short fiction, essays and the like are constantly and voraciously being consumed by the journals on this list. We’ve compiled a list of literary journals in Canada to […]