The 1-2 Punch Book Pitch at Canzine West in Vancouver is accepting people to pitch their book idea. Live on our main stage, 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 $200.
To sign up, please email [email protected] with 1. name 2. email address 3. phone number 4. two or three line description of the project you are going to pitch.
Your fantastic judges include –
Writer, editor, and publisher Brian Kaufman has published 62 issues of the edgy magazine, subTerrain, and over 100 books in all literary genres via his publishing house, Anvil Press. He has served on the boards of the Literary Press Group of Canada and the Association of Book Publishers of BC.
John Vigna is the author of the new short story collection Bull Head. The Globe & Mail praised Vigna’s style as “aptly spare” and the book as an “impressive… a country-noir vision of rural existence.” The National Post noted the collection’s “striking melancholy” and that Vigna is “a serious writer, indeed.” His fiction and non-fiction has appeared in numerous newspapers, magazines, and anthologies including Cabin Fever: The Best New Canadian Non-Fiction, the Dalhousie Review, Grain, Event, sub-Terrain, and The Antigonish Review. John lives in Vancouver with his wife, the writer Nancy Lee.
Elizabeth Bachinsky is the author of five collections of poetry including HOME OF SUDDEN SERVICE (Nightwood, 2006), I DON”T FEEL SO GOOD (BookThug, 2012) and THE HOTTEST SUMMER IN RECORDED HISTORY (Nightwood Editions, 2013) Her work has been nominated for awards including the Pat Lowther Award and the Governor General’s Award for Poetry. She lives in Vancouver where she is an instructor of creative writing and the Editor of EVENT magazine.
Moderated by Hal Niedzviecki