Katharine Sands -- a literary agent with the Sarah Jane Freymann Literary Agency in New York and the editor of Making the Perfect Pitch: How to Catch a Literary Agent's Eye -- leads an exciting Saturday workshop at Manhattanville College's Graduate Program in Creative Writing.

Workshop Description: Writing commercially has probably been a bane to writers since Pliny the Elder plied the trade. But the truth is that today, writers can have the magical imagination of J.K. Rowling, the wit and wisdom of Frank McCourt, the perfect economy of Ernest Hemingway, and the inspired brilliance of (whoever really wrote) Shakespeare. Yet, they still need to pitch, query, and propose before they can get published. As a New York City-base literary agent, I focus my workshop on what writers need most when they enter the literary arena: a hands-on guide to the nitty-gritty of how to navigate the "how to get published" landscape. It's all about finding the right words and getting the right people to read them. Come and learn my best ideas so you can make the perfect pitch for yours.  The nuts-and-bolts of the business of writing are as essential to a writer's success as the work itself.