New York Write to Pitch Reviews, Algonkian Writer Conferences, and Poetry Forums

The December 2020 New York Pitch Conference was empowering. In the group, there were a number of neat writers with good work under their belts, no one ups-man-ship, no snarkies, just plain good and very intelligent people with a common purpose . I had never talked to an agent or publisher before. B...

1. Story statement. Losing all to brutal Nazi rule, Conrad von Runstadt must serve in the SS in Operation Barbarossa, struggling to stay alive against Russian military onslaughts. Holding to his principled upbringing, compelled to oppose and forgo war crimes and civilian massacres, he can only dare ...