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 ot make any changes.)

Alexandra Machinist: Linda Chester and Associates
630 Fifth Avenue, New York  Ny 10111; 212 332 3499 

Nonfiction: Her tastes run the gamut from narrative nonfiction, to spicy memoir, to anything and everything having to do with pop culture. (To give an inkling, she thinks that Wired and Outside magazines are publishing some stellar pop-culture journalistic pieces at the moment). 

Fiction: Literary fiction: a wonderful book can be anything from a bildungsroman beautifully told to a quirky exploration of subculture, a family saga that defies convention, or a classic love story with an original and compelling bent.  
Likes mysteries and thrillers that terrify with a dashing plot and gritty scenes.
Lastly, has a deep interest in well-researched historical fiction. 

Tricia Davey:  Sanford J. Greenburger Associates, Inc.
55 Fifth Avenue, New York NY 10003; 212-206-5600 
 
Areas of interest: She is looking for literary and commercial fiction as well as narrative non-fiction, memoir, self-help, cookbooks, and lifestyle books. She started her career as a literary agent in Los Angeles selling film and television rights.
  
Also handles young adult and represented a novel, Those Girls, that Razorbill/Penguin will publish this month. She has also  represented: The Nanny Diaries, Midnight in the Garden of Good and  Evil, One True Thing, The Bombshell Manual of Style, and  The Deep End of the Ocean.

Regina Brooks:  Serendipity Literary Agency 
305 Gates Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11216; 718-230-7689 
Handles 50% nonfiction and 50% fiction. 

Nonfiction. Includes business/economics, current affairs, education, ethnic/cultural interests, history, juvenile nonfiction, memoirs, money/finance, multicultural, New Age/metaphysics, popular culture, psychology, religious/inspirational, science/technology, self help/personal improvement, sports, women's issues/studies, health/medical, narrative, popular science biography, politics, crafts/design, food/cooking, contemporary culture. 

Fiction. Includes Action/adventure, confessions, ethnic, historical, juvenile, literary, multicultural, picture books, thriller, chick lit, lady lit, suspense, mystery, romance. 

Shannon Jamieson Vasquez:  Berkley Publishing
375 Hudson St., 5th Floor, New  York, NY 10014

Nonfiction. True crime and forensics, narrative and historical nonfiction, pop-culture, commercial nonfiction.
 
Fiction. Women's fiction and mysteries (all kinds, from cozies to suspense). 
Doesn't handle sci-fi/fantasy; romance; YA; or hefty, serious business or health books. 

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Critique: You may submit one manuscript for critique for each workshop for which you register. 
Guidelines: Submit a photocopy of your original unpublished manuscript, typewritten, double-spaced, one side of paper. Title page should 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. 
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. 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, one side of paper, with title and exact 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 and 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, Bernie Shire, 29 Conestoga Woods Road, Lancaster, PA  17602-3867.

All manuscripts (except for Words on the Wall, see below) MUST BE POSTMARKED BY APRIL 15, 2008 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 separately TO THE REGISTRAR, POSTMARKED BY APRIL 15, 2008 (if submitting manuscripts). Full tuition for the Year 2009 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.