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Writing Away Refuge
Our Writing Away Refuge Zoom Pitch Retreats focus on giving you the best opportunity to sign with a literary agent. It has been proven time and again that live pitching an agent is more effective than cold querying through email.
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Registration is NOW OPEN for our April 11th-12th, 2026
Writing Away Refuge Zoom Pitch! Agent slots will fill quickly.
Early registration is encouraged.
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Join us for this MEMBERS ONLY event!
Our Power Pitch focuses on your first page and your verbal pitch!
We will have a first page contest and a pitch slam.
The winners of each contest will win a 30-minute private consult with
a literary agent who represents their genre.
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Attention, members! Join us for a day of pitching to editors
of top publishing houses. It's our Members Only
Pitch the Editor! Details here.
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Don't miss our W.A.R. Spring Write In,
Sat. and Sun., March 28th-29th over Zoom!
This will be a weekend writing intensive over Zoom where you will perfect your first 10 pages, your verbal pitch and query letter, have a private consult with Lee Ann Ward about your manuscript, and create your perfect tagline/logline for your project. We will also conclude the weekend with a Pitch War, and the winner gets a FREE Writing Away Refuge course/class of their choosing (up to a $300 value)!
(This weekend Write In is limited to 25 writers so Lee Ann has dedicated time to spend with each attendee! Early registration is encouraged to secure your spot.)
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Want to write a book that readers will devour?
Then you simply must learn to Write Like a Reader
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Every writer struggles to find the perfect comps for​
their books, but you don't have to anymore!
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​Struggle with writing that perfect pitch, query letter, and synopsis? Well, not anymore!
Lee Ann will show you how!
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