Write for a young adult audience and how to get published.

To celebrate National Writing Day, authors, Emma Smith-Barton and Kesia Lupo will discuss writing YA novels and how to get your work published.

Writing Young Adult novels:

• What it means to write for a YA audience and how it differs to writing for adults Why write for a YA audience
• Who reads YA books A bit about our books and why we wrote them for a YA audience, plus readings
• How to get your work published
• How can you get your work noticed by an agent or publisher? – Kesia and I will both talk about our routes to publication
• What are publishers looking for (I’ll ask Kesia this one)
• Tips to get your writing up to publishable standard and the common pitfalls publishers see