Ask Us Anything: Publishing & Editing Q&A

Have questions about getting your work ready to submit or about the publishing industry in general? Want to know what catches an editor’s eye or turns them off your work? Join professional editors Cassidy McCants and Eilis O’Neal for answers about anything and everything publishing at this Tulsa LitFest event. Editing, revising, the role of literary agents, writing query letters, traditional vs. small press vs. self-publishing, using social media—it’s all on the table in this open Q&A session!

Cassidy McCants received her M.F.A. in fiction writing at Vermont College of Fine Arts. She is an Associate Editor with Nimrod International Journal and is the creator/editor of Apple in the Dark. Her work has appeared in The Lascaux Review, Liars’ League NYC, Gravel, and elsewhere. She won the 2020 Innovative Short Fiction Contest from The Conium Review.

Eilis O’Neal has worked with Nimrod International Journal for over twenty years and is the journal’s Editor-in-Chief. She is also the author of the young adult fantasy novel The False Princess, and her short fantasy has appeared in Strange Horizons, Lady Churchill’s Rosebud Wristlet, and other publications.

The event is free and open to the public and will take place at Fulton Street Books, 21 N. Greenwood Ave.