I finished all the preparations for tomorrow! For some reason, the list says we have a few less participants than I think it should, but we will go through tweets tomorrow to see if anyone has been missing.
THANK Y'ALL SO MUCH IT'S GONNA BE FUN TOMORROW 🎊🙌🎉🥳
~Sami
We are thrilled to bring you WTMP’s 2023 near-peer mentorship track! Thank you for your participation and enthusiasm for the past two years. To get the ball rolling, visit the link to meet our wonderful 2023 WTMP Mentors!
Thank you!
It's TIIIIIIIIIIIME! Thank you to all of the applicants that took a chance on this little program 😍. If you wanna see whether or not lady luck put you in one of our 100 slots, check out our announcement page at 👈👈
FINALLY.
Other than being able to get a free Slurpee today, it's time to announce our Fall 2024 Mentors!
(See the full list of our Career and Critique Mentors on our website! )
Hi, all! It's Sami again!!! So we have slots left, but there are a few genres we would like more applicants for!
If you write YA Horror, or Contemporary Romance in YA or Adult, and are interested in participating but didn't get the chance to apply, PLEASE DM US!
WTMP's PreDV rollout, DAY ONE!
#DVPit
exists because there are few opportunities that grant marginalized writers visibility over their white/cis/straight counterparts. Who's participating this 25th & 26th? What are you pitching? Let's get to know each other in
#WTMPChat
!
IT'S ALMOST TIME FOR OUR MENTEE ANNOUNCEMENTS! Not every participant will be, or even plans to be a mentee, but we wanted to use this time to get to know our mentorship team! Feel free to join in, participants!
#WTMParty
WTMP IS SO EXCITED TO BE WORKING WITH
#DVPIT
! Watch out for our team and our mentors in the replies, helping you punch up your pitches on October 13, 2021 8AM - 5PM! We're looking forward to it~
We're so delighted to announce that
@writeteammentor
will be hosting
#PreDV
this year, our pitch practice session for
#DVpit
! Mark your calendars for October 13, 8AM-5PM ET! Rules of participation are in the graphic.
WTMP has officially selected the 50 participants for this year's
#WTPitch
! We thank everyone for their applications and patience as we prepare for a new round of mentorships and submission package critiques! All participants will be tagged in the replies - check your email~
177 of you applied for the 2024 Fall WTMP.
Through random selection, ✨75✨ manuscripts have been selected to participate in the next step: the
#WTPitch
event on September 1st from 8amET to 8pmET.
👀Watch your email to claim your space in the event.
Check out our 2023 schedule for our returning Mentorship Track! If you're interested in participating in our events, mark your calendars for our sign-ups!
WTMP MENTEE LOTTERY APPLICATIONS ARE OPEN!! If you need a refresher: the WTMP team reads over EVERY application, but assign them a number and choose a random 50! That is who is selected for
#WTPitch
on April 15th! RUN, don't walk, over to Google Forms🔥🔥
I have hacked the account to let you guys know times!
Midnight - mentee emails will go out.
11AM tomorrow - submission packages will go out.
5PM tomorrow - May event info will go out.
Delays are for any kind words stragglers in the krew!
~Sami Alderson
First, congrats to the
#wtmp
selections! For those who didn't get picked in the lottery, keep in mind that if anyone withdraws or fails to confirm their slot, we may cycle in someone new! If you are selected to fill a spot, we will get in touch with you ASAP
Hey
#WTPitch
- to celebrate the final 2 hours of pitching, let's see your MS aesthetics!! (Or mood boards, or fan art, or other image-based fun stuff!) Mentor likes don't count as requests on these, just appreciation 🥰
Good morning all! FYI if you have already submitted your application and received a like after the fact - DON'T PANIC! We'll take care of it all on our side, so don't fret 🙌🙌
~Sami
Ever had a writing question but didn't know where to ask? A querying question? A submission question? A debut question? Ask US! WTMP is proud to present The Open Inbox, a Q&A email open to all writers. Ask our Mentors-In-Residence your burning questions starting January 1, 2022!
Our 2023 Class of Mentees is live! Thank you to all the participants for your patience as we did some post-reading window clean up. As always, PLEASE do not be too discouraged if you were not chosen for mentorship. There were only ~10 spots & 50 people!
👀Maybe you've heard? WTMP IS OPEN FOR MENTOR-IN-RESIDENCE APPLICATIONS! If you would like to be one of our MIRs for our open inbox, please check out our website for the application! And even if you won't be an MIR, please look forward to our upcoming events ♥
Y’all are my people… I love some teasers.
Like the fact that I may have drawn names for the lottery.
Like maybe I’m updating the website RIGHT NOW.
Like maybe there are more of you than in the past…
👀
Just maybe.
⏰ANNOUNCEMENT TIME!⏰
Thank you to all the new entrants for YA horror and YA/adult contemp romance! We selected 16 new writers to participate in
#WTPitch
this Sunday, 1/31. And here they are:
Thank you to everyone who attended the Day of Queries workshop! We hope everyone had a great time, even if
@themoosef
nearly choked at the end.
If you haven't received your email with the query swap yet due to the global Gmail meltdown, we'll try to get those to you ASAP!
UPDATE: It's Sami here--if you've experienced a little lag in responses from our Open Inbox, DON'T WORRY! We got a HUGE influx of submissions, so we're taking a little longer because of volume. But we're still open, still reading! Submission Package Reviews close January 31!
Happy Day 1 of being in the
#WTMPWaitingRoom
!
You've been learning about our mentors over the past few weeks. Now it's our turn to learn about you.
We can't wait.
We're already at 50% confirmed (if you haven't confirmed your slot yet, be sure to email us and check the site for next steps!!!!)! These next 2 weeks are about to be brain meltingly exciting~~~
~Sami (professional hacker)
@writeteammentor
is there a way for us to share our aesthetics? I know most pitch events don't allow them on pitches, but thought it could be fun for the community to share.
ONE! DAY! LEFT!
#WTMParty
Tomorrow participants will be receive an email 1) with their mentor's name if they were selected for mentorship 2) with their critiques if they received a sub package critique, or 3) with May Event info if they did not receive mentorship or critique.
The next big step for our mentee hopefuls is the
#WTPitch
event. Pitch events are not uncommon on here, but what makes one pitch stand out in a sea of others? Concept? Emojis? Voice? Aesthetics?
All of it contributes to a good pitch, but what matters most is clear stakes.
After the
#WTPrep
pitch event on 3/16, WTMP is hosting a Query Workshop at 6:30PM EST! It will be an hour-long presentation on querying created in partnership with published and agented authors. Sign up here:
Thank you everyone for your participation in our Open Inbox--it is OFFICIALLY CLOSED! Toward the end, we got a little slow in our responses, but we are very grateful to everyone who participated and hope everyone received a response (or will by April 15). Thank you again!
"Love stories with happily ever afters have gotten me through some difficult times and I'd love if what I write could one day do the same for others."
Read more in our interview with mentee
@_risaedwards
and their mentor,
@daffodilly
!
ICYMI: We've got a SCHEDULE NOW! And in order to make our events the best they can be, we would love it if authors, agents, and editors signed up to provide their expertise as panelists for our various events. You can sign up at the link below!
FINALLY.
Other than being able to get a free Slurpee today, it's time to announce our Fall 2024 Mentors!
(See the full list of our Career and Critique Mentors on our website! )
Almost 1 week until the Write Team Mentorship Program application window closes--deadline is 12/1!
Those selected will participate on the 1/31 pitch event and may be chosen for a four month mentorship or a sub package critique!
Hello, all! Sami here. We just finished our first full week of the Open Inbox. We get the flow of things now. So let's go over some points:
1) ALL messages emailed to us directly should have received a reply from writeteammentors
@gmail
.com. Something's up if you didn't get one.
Our Mentor-In-Residence application closes November 30! WTMP will be hosting an Open Inbox in 2022 where writers can ask authors craft and career-related questions! Please review the thread for links to the agent contract resources!
Mentor applications for a special ✨fall✨ program are now open!
Choose the mentor track that works best for you from least intensive to our 4-Month Mentorship.
It’s the final day.
Mental health check: how are we doing? Be sure to support your fellow waiters. Whether your number was selected or not, publishing is full of waiting. The best we can do is surround ourselves with supportive people who understand what we’re going through.
Happy Day 1 of being in the
#WTMPWaitingRoom
!
You've been learning about our mentors over the past few weeks. Now it's our turn to learn about you.
We can't wait.
IT'S THE FINAL COUNTDOWN FOR
#WTPitch
! Thank you everyone for participating - the submission link is now open (it is on the Next Steps page) and PLEASE FEEL FREE TO POST YOUR MOODBOARDS TO CLOSE OUT THE EVENT!
Correction: To celebrate communities and all the authors that have helped us so far, let's have a chat! WTMP's New Year's Eve Community Chat will start TONIGHT at 6PM EST! (accidentally said "tomorrow" on the previous tweet because scheduled tweets are hard ~Sami)
The WTMP Day of Queries is here! To celebrate, comment with your favorite querying tips, and we will retweet your sage advice
#amwriting
#amquerying
#askagent
And now, without further ado - I (
@themoosef
currently) will be super extra and congratulate everyone one by one. If you see your friends, feel free to give them a shout out!
Thank you so much
#WTMPChat
community! It's been a great year, what with our first successful mentorship program.
Starting tomorrow, if you have questions for us or our roster of mentors, please email us at writeteammentors
@gmail
.com with "OPEN INBOX" in the subject line🥳!
Write Team Mentorship Program applications are open!
Fill out this application to enter the pitch event lottery. Those selected will participate on the 1/31 pitch event and may be chosen for a four month mentorship or a sub package critique!
"Get you a crew that will hype your ideas, cheer on your successes, and love you through your failures. And show up for them, too!"
Read more in our interview with mentee
@bychristenyoung
and their mentor,
@JONNYescribe
!
Just want to let everyone know that requests are STILL going out, mentors are STILL reading and requesting participant materials (me, I'm "mentors"). The reading window ends June 15th and decisions are finalized on the 20th!
Phew, what a day!
#PreDV
is done! But maybe your work isn't over--want to get your query into shape? Email WTMP with the subject line WTMP Query Critique! We will be doing FREE query edits until October 22nd! Our gift to the pitchers out there~
That's it for
#PreDV
! Thank you so much to
@writeteammentor
for helping guide our participants. 💚✨
I hope everyone is feeling confident--
#DVpit
will be here October 25 and 26!!!
Happy new year, writers! What type of community events would you like to see from WTMP in 2021? Querying advice, agent & editor events, writing workshops, or maybe something entirely new?? Let us know your thoughts!
That's the last of them! Thank you so much for taking a chance on a little program like ours. We promise that next year we'll work even harder! If you were selected, please check our website for further instructions. See you again on January 31st!
It's the LAST MONTH of our Open Inbox and Submission Package Reviews are back open! This time around, to try to manage the inbox a little better, we will go according to mentor availability which means slots are limited! Please bear with us over this week as we launch again~
"I want to write stories about people who are clearly out of place in their community...and come to realize the absurdity of trying to fit in."
Read more in our interview with mentee
@WritingLife2010
and their mentor,
@ryandouglassw
!
Hey there 2024 mentors…
I’m doing something fun on the backend that I CANNOT wait to announce! I may reach out to you for extra ✨details✨.
That being said, yall probably saw questpit pitches (weren’t they 👀👀???). If you have any quick tweaks to your MSWL, let me know!
As our potential mentees are continuing to confirm their spots in our pitch event, stay tuned for a thread on pitching for
#WTPitch
!
👀A few mentors are planning to stop by and you might be able to slip in some more specific questions, too!
Another Open Inbox question! 🧵Answer's in the thread!
Q: When you get an agent, does that agent stick with you and help you with your next book? Or do you need to find a new agent for every book you publish? Does this change if your first book is YA and your second is Adult?
"It’s important to feel safe in your writing group and to set boundaries where needed."
Read more in our interview with mentee
@safaswritings
and their mentor,
@kalieholford
!
"Apply to everything you feasibly can because you never know what will end up helping you."
Read more in our interview with mentee
@am_anatiala
and their mentors,
@helander_amanda
and
@VaishnaWrites
!
"This might sound cliché but slow down, learn, listen and grow. It is not a race. You are not too late."
Read more in our interview with mentee
@MireMarke
and their mentor,
@yy_writing
!
Writer Beware is an invaluable resource to authors about red flags and what to avoid. Here is a comprehensive post from them on what to look for in a contract.
It's an hour until the end of
#WTPitch
today, and I want to be clear to everyone - we only have about 20 mentors, while we have 50 participants - and 150 tweets. The 3 tweets aren't to get 3 likes, but to give everyone the best chance for your pitch to reach the right mentor.
"My [characters], like me, have been called ‘too angry’, ‘too much’, ‘too loud’...you name it...but I won’t change so other people are comfortable and neither will my girls."
Read more in our interview with mentee
@KrlGP
and their mentor,
@emilycvarga
!
That's everyone! Can't wait for your pitches~
If you didn't get selected this year, PLEASE don't take it to heart. We use a random number generator to select anyone who submitted properly reviewed work. We're a very small program and one of MANY🔥🔥🔥!
Our Open Inbox is opening THIS SATURDAY!! To celebrate communities and all the authors that have helped us so far, let's have a chat! WTMP's New Year's Eve Community Chat will start tomorrow at 6PM EST!
As a part of our Open Inbox, we also have an option for writers to ask questions anonymously. These questions will be answered publicly here, on our Twitter page! Our first question and answer is all about LLCs! 🧵Check out the thread below~
"Self-care is a must for all writers. Find whatever comforts you the most, take a break when you’ve hit your limit and enjoy those comforts."
Read more in our interview with mentee
@ashewriter
and mentor,
@DannieMOlguin
!
"I’m also still growing as a teen, and I’m...opening myself up to new experiences, and exploring this through writing just gives me a rush of serotonin."
Read more in our interview with mentee
@evelyndingbooks
and their mentor,
@kalieholford
!
Mentors-In-Residence aren't just published authors! We want all kinds--mentors with publishing experience as agented/published authors; former mentorship program mentees; active authors with their own network of support; even industry professionals! Apply:
#WTMPChat
DAY TWO!! Thanks to all Day 1 participants--be sure to look through other's answers for a chat! NOW let's have some fun! Got aesthetics, playlists, or Pinterest boards for your work? Drop them and show off a little~ Don't forget to boost, and use the hashtag
#WTMPChat
!
Hello to all Mentor-In-Residence applicants! We're still reading over applications since we received even more than our 50 application goal (THANK YOU SO MUCH!) - but we should announce MIRs next week!
Once again, thank you for applying~
Tomorrow is the last day to apply for the WTMP pitch event lottery! Apply now for a chance to win a four-month author mentorship and/or a submission package critique.
And so it's on your radar, the WTMP Day of Queries event happens on December 15! Sign up coming soon.
Next Open Inbox Question!!! We picked this one because there's a program taking applications RIGHT NOW! (It's AMM)
Question: Besides AMM, Pitchwars, and Avengers of Color, what other mentorship programs are available? When do the submission periods open for those programs?
Welcome all, to today's
#WTMPChat
! (Be sure to use the hashtag)--today, to close out the year we're talking communities and influences! Let's start with the village that raised you.
Q1: Who's your writing support team?
Update: Submission Package Reviews are CLOSED as of January 31st! If you sent a sub package before that date, don't worry--we're reviewing it and it should get to you sometime in February. The inbox is still open to questions!
"I want to see [marginalized communities] living their best lives and getting the happily-ever-afters (in whichever forms they take) that they deserve."
Read more in our interview with mentee
@NoueKirwan
and their mentor,
@themoosef
!
🧵Incoming resource thread from an Open Inbox question!
Q: I love craft books, and I'd love to add more to my collection. Can you suggest any great craft books? -Kate
This answer is from the amazing Chandra Fisher (
@ThatChandraFish
)!