Perfecting Your Nonfiction Book Proposal

Join the New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) at its next literary arts event, designed for writers working in nonfiction: “Perfecting Your Nonfiction Book Proposal.” Editors Kyle Gipson and Jackson Howard will present on this topic on Thursday, January 20, 4:00 - 5:30PM EST. Sign-ups will be pay-what-you-wish.

By the end of this session–divided into an initial presentation and extended Q&A–you’ll have gained insights into the book proposal process that will leave you better prepared for publishing your nonfiction project with the support of agents and publishers. Please register for the event here. 

This is an online Zoom conversation. Those who register will receive the Zoom link to participate in the hour prior to the event via email.

What: Perfecting Your Nonfiction Book Proposal
Presenters: Editors Kyle Gipson and Jackson Howard
When: Thursday, January 20, 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM EST 
Where: Online via Zoom
Cost: Pay-what-you-wish*
Register: https://nyfa.app.neoncrm.com/np/clients/nyfa/event.jsp?event=261&

Questions: learning@nyfa.org

Note: The online program will not be recorded.

Presenter Bios: 

Kyle Gipson is a nonfiction book editor at Basic Books and Seal Press, imprints of Hachette Book Group. He acquires and edits books in history, biography, and the social sciences, with a particular interest in African American history, gender and sexuality, and social justice. Kyle worked previously at Johns Hopkins University Press, The MIT Press, and Beacon Press.

Jackson Howard is an editor at Farrar, Straus and Giroux and its experimental imprint MCD, where he acquires and edits a broad range of fiction and nonfiction. Writers he publishes include Brontez Purnell, Sarah Schulman, Catherine Lacey, Fernando A. Flores, and many others. His writing has appeared in The New York Times Magazine, New York, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn.

Image Detail: Jonathan Gardenhire (Fellow in Photography '19); Installation View, "A Mighty Fortress Is Our God/ Imperfect Man;" 2017; exhibited at The Kitchen as part of "Julius Eastman: That Which Is Fundamental, A Recollection. Predicated.," curated by Tiona Nekkia McClodden; January 19-February 10, 2017; Photo Credit: Ben Tran