The Pop-Up Literary Agency
Before teaching under-graduate courses in children’s and young adult literature in the English department at the University of Arizona, Stephanie Pearmain was a reader for the Andrea Brown Literary Agency. “I have an MFA in creative writing,” says Pearmain, “but my real, crash-course education in writing, editing, and the world of publishing came from the work I did as a reader for a literary agent.”
With this experience in mind, Pearmain helped develop a semester-long course at the university in 2016, English 389: Introduction to Publishing in the Children’s Literature Market. Her hope was to give students a better idea of the many facets of the publishing industry with a hands-on approach, preparing them with practical
