Posted by Kate Nash on 12 March 2021

Brand new for 2021, we're running a series of practical courses led by literary agents.

Saturday 27th March, 2-4pm, online via Zoom 

WRITE YOUR WINNING SYNOPSIS

Synopses are hard to write. What do you include? Should there be spoilers? Is that too much detail? And what’s the point of summarising a book anyway?

However, synopses are vital for the success of any submission. Together, we will discuss the importance of synopses to the submissions process, and how agents use them to assess work. We will analyse some successful outlines, exploring what grabbed our attention and explaining how to avoid some of the common pitfalls. In exercises, you will examine the style of a good synopsis, learning how to entertain and interest an agent. And, finally, you will have an opportunity to put these insights into practice and work up the skeleton of your own synopsis.

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