OPENING LINES March 2023
Opening Lines gives you a chance to get some professional feedback on those all-important first few words so you can fine-tune your submissions. Three entries will be chosen at random for feedback. If yours is selected, it will be published anonymously here in April with Julia’s response.
Meet Julia
Julia Churchill joined AM Heath almost exactly a decade ago
in 2013 – but almost exactly a decade before that she began building up the UK
side of Greenhouse Literary Agency, a transatlantic agency specialising in
children’s and YA books. After four years there, she spent six years with the
Darley Anderson Agency to start their children’s list.
So it’s fair to say Julia has a wonderful wealth of
experience and represents a rich range of writers – including inventive
picture book penner Pip Jones, award-winning YA writer Joanna Nadin, and the co-author
duo of an autistic teen alongside an assistant headteacher by the names of Libby
Scott and Rebecca Westcott. Her criteria for choosing the writers she wants to
work with is simply that they are “fabulous!”
Julia recently hit Twitter (via @JuliaChurchill) to announce
that she is on the lookout for a new writer who is ready to share their book with
agents. So how better to make sure that’s you than by getting her feedback on the
start of your manuscript?
Competition Closed
Chip Colquhoun
Chip began storytelling for children in 2007 and was asked to write the EU’s guidance on using stories in classrooms in 2015, but became a children’s writer when The History Press commissioned him in 2016 to write Cambridgeshire Folk Tales for Children. He’s since had 21 books published, most as part of the Fables & Fairy Tales series he co-produces with illustrator Korky Paul (published by Epic Tales). You can find him on Twitter and Facebook.
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