The Workshop

Tools, courses and guides for getting your work published.

Paste a page into a tool and see it the way an editor might: how your opening compares with prize winners, the rhythm of your sentences, your odds across a year of submissions. Then use the courses, the directory and the guides to plan where the work goes next.

Start with something you can do

  • Premium · free for early subscribersTest an openingSlush Pile Sim. Paste a first page and get it scored on 13 editorial checks.Open Slush Pile Sim
  • FreeMeasure your first sentenceOpening Meter. See where your opening falls among 21 Pulitzer openings.Open Opening Meter
  • FreePrint your voiceVoice Print. The rhythm of your sentences and the habits that make prose sound like you.Open Voice Print
  • Premium · free for early subscribersAnalyze a poemLine Report. Paste a poem and see its shape, syllables and line endings.Open Line Report
  • FreeWork out your oddsSubmission Odds. The chance of one acceptance from any number of submissions.Open Submission Odds
  • Free sign-upFind an agent or editorThe Insiders Directory. Who represented and edited the prize-winning books, each with a source.Open the directory

Courses

  • Course series · SoonThe RoadmapEight courses from first draft to launch, a market lab and a capstone. Twelve to sixteen weeks.See the courses

Publishing resources

  • Guide · FreeThe Ten StepsPublishing from first draft to launch, including the loop most writers make many times.Read the guide
  • Guide · FreeAim the BookComparable titles, the right house, the editor by name.Read the guide
  • SectionCraftLessons on the writing itself live in their own section.Go to Craft

Coming next

  • Position · Nov 27Pitch checkReads a query the way someone who sees fifty a day does.Not yet open
  • Position · Dec 11Shelf MatchSuggests comparable titles from a catalogue of published books.Not yet open
  • Target · Dec 23Agent MatchMatches your sample and pitch to agents in the directory.Not yet open
  • Target · Jan 8Publisher matchHouses that have taken work like yours.Not yet open
  • Submit · Jan 22Market calendarReading periods, contests and fellowships by date.Not yet open