UPCOMING EVENTS: Crafting the Perfect Pitch
November 23, 2023
Attention writers! Have you finished a fantastic manuscript and are now looking to sell it? Join us for a workshop on the Art of the Pitch with Executive Editor at HarperCollins Canada, Janice Zawerbny. Come prepared to talk about your project, ask questions and have your pitch flash assessed!
Register here.
About the Presenter
Janice Zawerbny has worked in Canadian publishing as an editor for more than twenty-five years. She is currently an Executive Editor at HarperCollins Canada, where she acquires and edits both fiction and non-fiction. She has edited a number of critically acclaimed and award-winning books including, The Break by Katherena Vermette, Five Little Indians by Michelle Good, The Best Kind of People by Zoe Whittall, The Island of Forgetting by Jasmine Sealy, and The Berry Pickers by Amanda Peters. She is also the co-founder of the The Carol Shields Prize for Fiction, and previously taught substantive and stylistic editing at Metropolitan University.