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Lit Fest 2024
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Wednesday, June 12 • 12:00pm - 1:00pm
Lunchtime Business Panel: State of the Industry (Livestream)

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Publishing and television continue to be industries facing rapidly changing trends and challenges, so what does the landscape look like now? Join four industry experts as they discuss the latest industry news and what it means for authors and screenwriters, published and aspiring alike.
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Raluca Albu

Panelist
Raluca Albu is the communications director of the Authors Guild, the oldest and largest professional organization for published writers. They advocate for the legal rights of authors by supporting fair publishing and freelance writing contracts, copyright protection and free speech... Read More →
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Kayla Lightner

Agent
Kayla is an agent at Ayesha Pande Literary. Before joining the APL team in 2020, Kayla started her career at Liza Dawson Associates. She also managed APL’s subsidiary rights department for two years before transitioning to full-time agent. Her client list includes multi-award-winning... Read More →
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Amy Bishop-Wycisk

Agent
Amy Bishop-Wycisk (why-zick) joined Trellis Literary Management in 2023 after eight years with Dystel, Goderich & Bourret. She represents a wide-ranging list in fiction, nonfiction, and YA. Across the board, she has a special interest in underrepresented voices, especially from the... Read More →
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Danielle Bukowski

Agent
Danielle Bukowski is a literary agent at Sterling Lord Literistic, representing award-winning, critically-acclaimed, nationally bestselling fiction and nonfiction.She is looking for literary fiction, upmarket fiction, nonfiction and SFF. She particularly wants to hear from writers... Read More →
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Dean Bakopoulos

Visiting Author
Dean Bakopoulos is the author of the novels Please Don't Come Back from the Moon (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), My American Unhappiness (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt), and Summerlong (Ecco/HarperCollins). The winner of a Guggenheim Fellowship and NEA fellowships in both fiction and creative... Read More →
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Shana Kelly

Instructor
Shana Kelly started her career as a literary agent at the William Morris Agency in New York and London, where she sold foreign and British rights for the agency for ten years. Shana was the signing agent for many successful authors, including New York Times bestseller Curtis Sittenfeld... Read More →

Wednesday June 12, 2024 12:00pm - 1:00pm MDT
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  Fiction   Nonfiction/Memoir   Hybrid   Poetry   Publishing/Career   Screenwriting