MG/YA with editor Miloni Vora (Opening Pages) fall 2025

<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr">You may take one workshop per category per season. With mixed category workshops you can take more than one as long as you're submitting different categories and projects to each. Fall season: August 13th - Dec 31st 2025. If there's space 1 month prior to it starting you may register for a second workshop.</div><div><br></div></div></div>

Submissions: <p>There will be one submission of your first 3750 words of prose, or 2500 words of verse (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 Miloni Vora

Miloni Vora, Assistant Editor, Atheneum Books for Young Readers. Miloni Vora joined Simon & Schuster in January of 2022, after interning at W. W. Norton, the Feminist Press, and various agencies. She assists Caitlyn Dlouhy on a range of picture books, middle grade, and young adult, and has worked on titles such as Twenty-Four Seconds From Now… by Jason Reynolds, Rebellion 1776 by Laurie Halse Anderson, and You Are Loved by Sujean Rim among many others.Regardless of genre and format, she loves stories with strong, spunky, characters that make her laugh (and cry). She specifically enjoys multigenerational family stories, stories about language and connection, and stories about healing and hope. Her favorite fantasy books are ones rooted in inclusive worldbuilding, particularly from non-European cultures, and featuring multiple protagonists who use humor as a coping mechanism.