2:00 pm, ET
11:00 am, PT
Revise Like a Pro
Thursday, November 7, 2024
11:00 am PST / 12:00 pm MST / 1:00 pm CST / 2:00 pm EST / 3:00 pm AST / 3:30 pm NST
60 minutes
Live captions available
Registration: $20 / Free for TWUC Members
In this webinar, Jessica Vitalis will guide participants through her novel revision process from start to finish. Whether you have a newly completed novel and aren't sure what to do next, you are stuck in querying purgatory and suspect a revision is in order, or you are struggling to complete a full draft, this webinar will help take your story to the next level. Hosted by award-winning author Chanel Sutherland, this webinar runs approximately 60 minutes, including a Q&A period. TWUC members will have access to a recording of the webinar for a limited time. Non-members will only have access to the live event.
Jessica Vitalis is an award-winning, Columbia MBA-wielding middle grade author with Greenwillow/HarperCollins. Her books have been translated into three languages, received multiple starred reviews, been designated as Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selections, and appeared on “Best Book” lists for Kirkus and CCBC. Her latest novel, Coyote Queen, won the Reading the West Book Award and the Women Writing the West 2024 WILLA Literary Award in Children’s Fiction and Non-Fiction. It is also a High Plains Book Award and SCBWI Crystal Kite Book Award finalist. A historical novel in verse, Unsinkable Cayenne, is a Junior Library Guild Gold Standard Selection released on October 29, 2024. Jessica has American and Canadian citizenship; she currently lives and writes in Ontario but speaks at schools, conferences, and festivals all over North America. Connect on Instagram at @jessicavauthor and check out her website at www.jessicavitalis.com.
Chanel Sutherland is a Vincentian-Canadian writer of fiction and creative nonfiction. Her debut book, Layaway Child, a collection of short stories exploring the Caribbean immigrant experience, will be published by House of Anansi in Spring 2026. Chanel is the winner of the 2021 CBC Nonfiction Prize and the 2022 CBC Short Story Prize, as well as a recipient of the 2022 Mariruth Sarsfield Mentorship. She was also named one of CBC Books' 30 Writers to Watch in 2022. She holds a BA in English Literature from Concordia University.
