Pitch your book idea to our panel of experts in front of a live audience and win! It’s back! Register now to pitch your book idea at Canzine this Sunday! Anything goes!
Live on our mainstage in front of a crowing crowd, you get two minutes to pitch your book to our panel of judges. They get one minute each to tell you why you’ll never get published in a million, billion years, or why they want to see your manuscript in their inbox ASAP.
The winner of the pitch gets bragging rights and a Broken Pencil prize pack worth $250 including a subscription to Broken Pencil Magazine, the limited edition Canzine t-shirt, a copy of Hal Niedzviecki’s novel The Program, a gift certificate to The Beguiling comic shop and more!
Sign up in advance to participate in the 1-2 Punch Book Pitch at Canzine. To sign up email canzine (at) brokenpencil (dot) com with your: 1. name 2. email address 3. phone number 4. two or three line description of the project you are going to pitch. Sign up now, we only have room for 8 participants and this will be first come first served.
Our judges:
Sandra Kasturi is a writer, poet, book reviewer, Bram Stoker Award-winning editor, and co-publisher of the World Fantasy and British Fantasy Award-nominated press, ChiZine Publications. Sandra’s work has won first prize in ARC Poetry Magazine’s 10 Annual Poem of the Year Contest, 3 for the Troubadour International Poetry Prize, THIS Magazine’s Great Canadian Literary Hunt, Glimmer Train’s Very Short Fiction Contest, and the Rhysling and Aurora Awards. Sandra’s writing has appeared in various venues, including Taddle Creek, ON SPEC, Prairie Fire, Chilling Tales and many others. She managed to snag an introduction from Neil Gaiman for her poetry collection, The Animal Bridegroom (Tightrope Books). Her second book, Come Late to the Love of Birds, came out in 2012. She likes red lipstick, gin & tonics, and Michael Fassbender.
Joey Comeau is best known for writing the text of the webcomic A Softer World, and for his novels Lockpick Pornography and Overqualified. His latest novel, The Summer is Ended And We Are Not Yet Saved, came out on ChiZine Publications in summer of 2013. It’s a horror novel set in a Bible summer camp.
Hal Niedzviecki is the founder and publisher of Broken Pencil and the author of 8 books including The Peep Diaries: How We’re Learning to Love Watching Ourselves and Our Neighbors and the short story collection Look Down, This is Where it Must Have Happened.
I would like to put out a chapbook of poetry. There’ll be six poems in it and the title is “good things come in small packages.