YA/Crossover with editor, Kesia Lupo (Opening Pages) fall 2025

<p>You may take one YA workshop per season. Fall season includes workshops with 'fall' in the title. If there is space in a workshop 1 month prior to it starting, you may register for a second workshop.<br></p>

Submissions: <p>There will be one submission of your first 3750 words of prose&nbsp;(approximately 15 pages) at the workshop start. Participants should also plan to share their pitch/short summary with their pages. Your pitch is not included in the word count and will not be critiqued.</p><p><span style="font-family: &quot;Open Sans&quot;, sans-serif; font-size: 15px; font-weight: 700;">Changes and Withdrawals Policy:&nbsp;</span></p><ul><li>2 months or more ahead of a workshop start: you will be credited the full amount of the workshop, less a $20 change fee.</li><li>Under 2 months to 14 days ahead of a workshop start: If we are able to replace you, you will be credited for the full workshop price less a $20 change fee. If we can't replace you, you will receive a credit for 50% of the workshop cost.&nbsp;</li><li>Withdrawals within 14 days of a workshop start: If we can replace you, you will receive a credit for 50% of the workshop price. If we cannot replace you, you will not receive a credit. Your fee will go towards our workshops and scholarships.&nbsp;</li></ul>

Members: $135; Non-members: $158

About Kesia Lupo

Kesia Lupo started her publishing career as an Editorial Services Assistant at Pan Macmillan, London in 2013. She then transitioned to children’s fiction, gaining a Junior Editor position at Chicken House (a UK imprint of Scholastic), where she acquired and edited bestselling, internationally successful and prize-winning fiction for middle-grade and YA readers, ending her 8 years there as Senior Editor. In 2023, she moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, working as a literary agent at The Bindery Agency and then Donald Maass Literary Agency, where she represented MG and YA fiction, adult fiction, and select adult nonfiction. Now, she’s back in London, working as Commissioning Editor at Macmillan Children’s Books UK, primarily acquiring for the YA First Ink list. 

Kesia has worked in various professional capacities on middle-grade, YA and adult fiction and a smattering of adult non-fiction, though her specialism is middle-grade and YA. Genre-wise, she is a bit of an omnivore but enjoys horror, thrillers, romance, fantasy and historical fiction in particular.