Workshop: Get Your Non-Fiction Proposal Ready for Submission with Abi Fellows and Layla McCay

Join author Layla McCay (The Queer Bookshelf) and literary agent Abi Fellows (D H H Literary Agency) in a creative and inspiring non-fiction writing workshop. 

In this interactive session, we’ll look at all the components you need for a winning non-fiction proposal, including how to hone your idea, how to structure it as a book-length work, and how to sell yourself as the best person to write it. There’ll be time to discuss how to approach agents, as well as pesky things to think about along the way, such as research, interviews and marketing.

Whether you’re looking to refine your non-fiction proposal, or just have a burning idea but don’t know where to start, this is the workshop for you.

This workshop is NOT included in any Festival Pass and must be booked separately

Layla McCay is the author of The Queer Bookshelf: A Reader’s Guide, a celebration and guide to LGBTQ+ literature past, present and future. She previously wrote Breaking the Rainbow Ceiling: how LGBTQ+ people can thrive and succeed at work, which won the Axiom Gold Award for career books. Layla regularly appears on the BBC, features in Netflix’s The Mortified Guide on growing up gay, and hosts The Moth performance storytelling show. She lives with her wife in London.

Abi Fellows is a literary agent at DHH Literary Agency and has worked in the publishing industry for over 25 years. After starting her career as a bookseller at Blackwell’s and on the sales team of Faber & Faber, Abi began her agenting career with Georgina Capel Associates in 2004. After a stint as a literary scout at RR Ltd, Abi returned to agenting in 2019, joining The Good Literary Agency. Abi was shortlisted for Literary Agent of the Year at the British Book Awards (aka the Nibbies) in 2023 and joined DHH Literary Agency the same year. Abi is a Trustee for New Writing South and a mentor for Just Like Us.