Literary agent Rebecca Strauss shares her expertise and research on query letter construction and the elements that make an agent look twice.

Inanna Carter spent her agency internships on the other side of the query trenches, reviewing query letters for literary agents and learning what makes those agents look twice. Inanna gives a bird's-eye view of the place of the query letter within the publishing industry.

Katherine Holmes unpacks her method for submitting work to literary magazines. She shares useful templates, thoughtful insights, and thought-provoking questions.

Learn from Kelly Fattman, Senior Director of Sales, Business Development, and Marketing at Harvard University Press.

Learn how to take characters from why they can’t be together to why they will.

Jennifer Safrey is the author of After Happily Ever: An Epic Novel of Midlife Rebellion, a June 2025 release from Sibylline Press. She is the author of seven other books, including four Harlequin romances. Two of her romances won the Golden Leaf Award for Best Long Contemporary Romance. She’s an adjunct professor at Emerson College, and she also works as a freelance editor.

There is no right way to develop a writing routine, but if you are not paying attention to your own needs, it can be a struggle to find the time and what works for you. PopFic Alumni Ginny has ideas, tips, and tricks for making writing a healthy habit and seeing goals through to the end.

Click here to see Ginny’s cheat sheet!

Fear can hold us back, or it can drive us forward. When examined, our fears can even fuel great writing. Writing that embraces the unacknowledged fears that often lurk within our daily lives and creative practices, has personal stakes and collective resonance. These are the elements that speak to the human experience and reach readers at their bedrock, helping them face their own unspoken fears. With award-winning author and PopFic professor Kirsten Imani Kasai, we'll learn how to confront and incorporate our shadow selves into our creative work so that we may write, and live, more fully.

Click here for a list of resources to help you write fearlessly, including Kirsten’s slide deck from our event, “Writing the Void.”

Are you experiencing writer's block? Can't get over that one chapter hump? Check out these resources from The PopFic Collective event “Mind-Hack Your Writing Life,” with Sarah EA Hart, a behavior analyst and Emersonian. Through these slides, she walks us through behavior psychology principles we can apply to our writing life.

The tip sheet that author, advocate, and educator Fin Leary provided is based on his recent event, “Website Creation and Maintenance for Authors.” This essential advice is short, sweet, and holds valuable information on where you can take your website, how you can take it there, and what you need to include. Check back for the soon-to-be-posted recording of this event.