Friday 2:00-5:00: Agents and editors will be on hand for interviews with registered conferees. The sessions will be five minutes each, and conferees may sign up for only ONE session on a first-come, first-serve basis after the general conference registration. Please DO NOT bring manuscripts. DO bring  questions and be prepared to discuss your work. Condense your proposal to take no more than the five minutes allotted. Sign-up begins at 9:00 a.m.; conferee badge required.  (The Conference reserves the right to make any changes.)

Loretta Barrett: Loretta Barrett Books

For fiction: Crime fiction Historical Fiction Mainstream Fiction Multicultural Fiction Paranormal Fiction Romantic Suspense. 
Suspense and Thrillers, Urban Fantasy, Women's Fiction, Women's Mysteries, Suspense and Thrillers 

For nonfiction: Animals, Biography, Current Affairs, Environment/Nature, Historical Nonfiction, Popular Culture, Psychology. 
Self-Help, Social Issues, Spirituality,Women's Issues. 

For Fiction: Adventure, Confession, Literary, Ethnic, Historical, Juvenile, Multicultural, Picture book, Suspense, Thriller, Mystery, Romance, African American, Commercial, Young Adult, Juvenile. 

For Nonfiction: Juvenile, Newage, Business, Current affairs, Education, Ethnic, History, Memoirs, Money, Multicultural,Popular culture, Psychology, Religion, Science, Self help, Sports, Womens, Health/medical, Popular Science, Biography, Politics, Crafts/design, Food/cooking, Contemporary culture. 

Fran Collins: Frances Collin Literary Agency
Sarah Yake: Frances Collin Literary Agency

History, Biography, Literary Fiction, Fantasy, Science Fiction, Science and Health, Narrative Nonfiction and Memoir. 

Sarah Yake is especially interested in Young Adult (but, please, no picture books or books for young children), but also enjoys memoir, general and literary fiction and nonfiction.

Scott Miller: Vice President Trident Media Group
Alex Glass: Agent, Trident Media Group

Scott Miller: Commercial fiction including thrillers, crime and mysteries, literary fiction, graphic novels. 
Commercial nonfiction including narrative nonfiction, current events, military, and books dealing with pop culture.

Authors include New York Times Best Selling Authors W. Bruce Cameron's 8 Sinple Rules for Dating My Teenage Daughter,  Selden Edwards' The Little Book, Dalton Fury's Kill Bin Laden, Ronald Kessler's In The President's Secret Service , Chris Kuzneski, Cesar Millan (The Dog Whisperer) and Joel C. Rosenberg.

Alex Glass: Literary fiction, mainstream commercial fiction, mystery/crime, thriller, young adult/teen, middle grade. Narrative nonfiction, memoir, sports, pop culture, humor.
Not looking for romance, genre science fiction or fantasy, or picture books for children

Books/authors include  Of Bees and Mist by Erick Setiawan, The Average American Male  by Chad Kultgen, The Wettest County in the World by Matt Bondurant, The Official High Times Potsmokers Handbook by Matt Bondurant, Brothers by Da Chen, Alice Fantastic by Maggie Estep, Dope Thief  by Dennis Tafoya, Rough and Tumble by Mark Bavaro, The Night Tourist by Katherine Marsh and Positively by Courtney Sheinmel (Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers).

Margaret McGuire: Editor, Quirk. 

Margaret McGuire specializes in cookbooks, crafts, pop culture, and a host of other subjects. 

Philadelphia publisher Quirk publishes "Practical Books, Impractical Books, Children's Books, Adult Books, Illustrated Books, Reference Books, Irreference Books, Adventure Books, Survival Books, Humor Books, Gift Books, Pop Culture Books."

David Pomerico: Assistant Editor, Del Rey Spectra

Focuses primarily on traditional fantasy, dark fantasy, urban and contemporary fantasy, dystopian literature, near-future SF thrillers, and quirky literary fiction.  Some nonfiction (humor and sports). 

He has been at Random House for three years, starting in the Associates Program with Bantam Dell before becoming an Editorial Assistant at Spectra.  Since then, he’s worked with Alan Cambpell on The God of Clocks, David J. Williams on The Burning Skies and The Machinery of Light, Greg van Eekhout on Norse Code, C.L. Anderson on Bitter Angels, Felix Gilman on Gears of the City, Darin Bradley on the forthcoming Noise, and Ari Marmell’s The Conqueror’s Shadow.  He also works in the Del Rey Star Wars program.  A graduate of Binghamton University, he holds Masters Degrees from Washington University in St. Louis and NYU.  You can follow him on Twitter at @bantamspectra.

Emily Rapoport: Associate Editor, Berkley Publishing Group

Drawn to new and different points of view in historical mystery, historical fiction, and women’s fiction. Non-fiction pursuits have been in light business, psychology, and pop culture. 

Not looking for horror, science fiction/fantasy, romance or political subjects. Recent titles have been Escape from Cubicle Nation by Pamela Slim, Death Threads: A Southern Sewing Circle Mystery by Elizabeth Lynn Casey, and Sand Daughter by Sarah Bryant. 

The Conferee Packet, which each conferee receives upon registration at the conference, 
will contain any updated information about agent and editor interests.

Writing, Surviving, Thriving: Feel like the great writer you are—99% of the time.
Leonard Gontarek, author of four books of poems, appears in the textbook, The Working Poet. Awarded two PCA Poetry Fellowships, he has been nominated for five Pushcart Prizes.

Literary Magazine Panel: Editors share tips and insights into literary magazine publishing.
Rosemary Cappello edits Philadelphia Poets.  Her poetry has appeared in VIA, Poet Lore, Iconoclast, Avanti Popolo and others.  San Paride is her most recent chapbook.
Kathleen Volk Miller is co-editor of Painted Bride Quarterly, and co-director of the Drexel Publishing Group.  She has published fiction, personal essays, and articles in numerous publications.
Christine Weiser is co-publisher of the literary magazine Philadelphia Stories (founded in 2004). Broad Street is her first novel.

9:00?

Critique: You may submit one manuscript for critique for each workshop for which you register, except 1-5. 
Guidelines: Submit a photocopy of your original unpublished manuscript, typewritten, double-spaced (poetry and scripts may be single-spaced), one side of paper. Title page must include your name, address, and exact workshop #/category for which it is intended. 
Fiction and nonfiction up to 2,500 words; for a book submission, submit one page synopsis and first chapter , total up to 2,500 words. For poetry: one poem up to 40 lines. Include a stamped self-adressed postcard if you want to receive acknowledgement of receipt. 
Mail all workshop submissions in one large envelope with first class postage (No Certified Mail) to: PWC MS CRITIQUE, Marilyn Tyner, 142 Green's Branch Lane, Smyrna, DE 19977-1097. 

Contest: You may also submit one contest manuscript for each workshop for which you register, except 1-5.  Contest manuscripts will not be returned. Do not send SASE. Judges are not workshop leaders or PWC Board members.
Guidelines: Submit a photocopy of your original unpublished manuscript, typewritten, double-spaced (poetry and scripts may be single-spaced), one side of paper, with manuscript title and exact, complete name of workshop #/category at the top of each page (ie. don't write "Fiction"; specify which Short Story workshop, Literary or Contemporary). 
Fiction and nonfiction up to 2,500 words; include one-page synopsis for a book submission, total 2,500 words, novel entry need not be first chapter;  poetry: one poem up to 40 lines. Your name must not appear on the manuscript. Include a separate title page with your name, address, phone, e-mail, title of work, exact name of workshop #&category, and word count. Entries without proper identification will be disqaulified. 
Mail all contest manuscripts in one large envelope with first class postage (No Certified Mail) to: PWC CONTEST, Kathryn Craft, 67 Woodbridge Drive, Doylestown, PA, 18901-1971.

All manuscripts (except for Words on the Wall, see below) MUST BE POSTMARKED BY APRIL 15,  or they will be disqualified. Please, no certified mail. 
Word Count must appear on the first page: 2,500 words maximum  for fiction and nonfiction, 40 lines for poetry. Entries over 2,500 words will be disqualified.

Conference registration form must be sent separatelyTO THE REGISTRAR, POSTMARKED BY APRIL 15,  (if submitting manuscripts). Full tuition for the Year 2010 Conference, as well as cash prizes will be awarded at Saturday's banquet. 
(Note:anyone who has been granted a scholarship (including writers' club) should send the Conference Registration Form and Scholarship Form to the Scholarship Chair, not to the Registrar. See "Scholarships" above for address and further information.)

Conferees may post one entry to each wall (if more than one entry is posted, all will be removed), entry to be complete on one page, with title (there are no other length, spacing or typing restrictions). Name and address on reverse side only. Winning entries from previous years are not eligible. Cash prizes (no tuition prizes) determined by popular ballot, which will be in conferee packet.  Do not mail Words on the Wall entries.