Jill Corcoran |
Jill Corcoran Literary Agency
P.O. Box
4116
Palos Verdes Peninsula, CA 90274
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Jill Corcoran used to be with the Herman
Agency before forming her own agency
in August 2013. Jill is not currently accepting new clients except through referrals,
but she has recently promoted Eve
Porinchak from intern to junior agent, and Eve is now actively looking for new authors to represent.
Eve Porinchak graduated from UCLA
with a Bachelor’s degree in PsychoBiology. She has a degree in Early Childhood
Education from Colby-Sawyer College and attended medical school at the
University of New England.
Eve in Tijuana |
Eve has always worked with children in some capacity. She taught Pre-K through First Grade, with a specialty in reading, she worked as a state foster care case manager, teaches
creative writing to incarcerated teens, and serves as an aid worker in Tijuana
orphanages, and has been an active member of Society of Children’s Book Writers
and Illustrators for 15 years.
Eve has eclectic literary tastes and
is open to everything from picture books to young adult novels. She is
currently looking for contemporary realistic fiction for teens that features
unusual love stories with bad ass protagonists and cinematic writing.
Query Eve at:
eve@jillcorcoranliteraryagency.com
Paste the first 10 pages of your manuscript
into your email.
Anne Shone |
Brian Henry will lead "How to Get Published"workshops in
Niagara on the Lake on Saturday, March 7, with literary agent Olga Filina of
The Rights Factory (see here),
in Windsor on Sunday, May 31, with Martha Magor Webb of the Anne McDermid
Agency (see here), and in Mississauga on Saturday, June 20, again with
Martha Magor Webb (see here).
Also, Brian will lead “Writing for Children & for Young Adults” with Anne Shone, Senior Editor at Scholastic
Canada, on Saturday, May 2, in Oakville (see here).
Other upcoming workshops,
include “How to Build Your Story,” Saturday, March 14 in Burlington (see here), Saturday, April 25, in Thessalon (details to come), Saturday, May 9 in London (here) and Saturday, May 30 in Guelph (here),
and “Writing great characters & From
fact to fiction,” Saturday, March 28 in Brampton (here),
“Secrets of Writing a Page-turner,” Saturday,
April 11, in Peterborough (here),
and “Writing and Revising,” Sunday,
April 12 in Ottawa (here).
Martha Magor Webb |
The spring session of Brian’s weekly
creative writing courses begins in April See details of all five weekly courses
for beginners to advanced writers here.
Exploring Creative Writing” will be offered Wednesday evenings in
Burlington (see here), “Writing Personal Stories” on Tuesday afternoons in Mississauga (here), “The Next Step in Creative Writing” on Thursday afternoons in Mississauga (here)
and on Thursday evenings in Georgetown (here)
and “Intensive Creative Writing” on Wednesday afternoons in Burlington (here).
Read reviews of Brian’s courses and workshops here.
For more information or to reserve a
spot, email: brianhenry@sympatico.ca
See Brian's full schedule here, including writing
workshops and creative writing courses in Barrie,
Brampton, Bolton, Burlington, Caledon, Cambridge, Collingwood, Georgetown,
Guelph, Hamilton, Kingston, London, Midland, Mississauga, Newmarket, Niagara on
the Lake, Orillia, Oakville, Ottawa, Peterborough, St. Catharines, Stouffville,
Sudbury, Thessalon, Toronto, Windsor, Halton, Kitchener-Waterloo, Muskoka,
Peel, Simcoe, York, the GTA, Ontario and beyond.
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