The Light of Eternal Spring by Angel Di Zhang

It is our passion to create long-lasting relationships and to be the best advocate for our clients. We work with authors at all levels to create the right path towards achieving each author’s specific goals. LADDERBIRD is a full-service boutique literary agency out of the Boston area with a passion for bringing marginalized voices to the forefront. Outside of agenting, Beth teaches writing in her local community with a focus on bringing reluctant writers and readers into the magical world of books. She wants stories from all communities that show new perspectives and allow honest voices to shine. What really compels her to take a project is a story with an urgency to be told. Radley, and picture books like The Leaping Laddoo by Harshita Jerath. Some the books she has championed include Adult Fiction like Saving Ruby King and Becoming Sara King by Catherine Adel West, and Everyman by M Shelly Conner nonfiction like A Night at the Sweet Gum Head: A Decade of Drag, Drugs and Disco by Martin Padgett, YA like Strictly No Heroics by B.L. Her tastes are wide ranging from Adult all the way to Picture Books in both fiction and nonfiction. She has a BA in Literature and a Masters in Business Administration and is always looking for new and exciting ways to bring more diversity into publishing and beyond.

īETH MARSHEA is the owner and Lead Agent at Ladderbird Literary Agency. She is currently a fiction editor of The Brooklyn Rail. Maisy is a graduate of the Brooklyn College MFA in Fiction Program. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review Daily, AGNI, The New York Times, Guernica, and other publications. MAISY CARD is the author of the novel These Ghosts Are Family, which won an American Book Award, the 2021 OCM Bocas Prize in fiction, and was a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel, The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize, and the Art Seidenbaum Award for First Fiction. OUR GUEST JUDGE: Photo Credit: Tehsuan Glover We’ll be back next year for the 2023 First Chapters Contest! Susan Reimer-Torn, Before the Closing of the GatesĪudie Shushan, We Are All Pillars of Salt Jennifer O’Neill Pickering, Summer of the River Bottom Dragon Pat Brothwell, The Bereaved Wives of East Fulton TownshipĮlizabeth Jones, The Vindication of Abigail Flynnĭorotea Mendoza, Requiem for a Beauty Queen Hillary Casavant, All Things Lost and Foundĭan Asenlund, The Spiral City of Lost Time Third Place: Ra’Niqua Lee, Frenzied, Desperate BirdsĪngel Di Zhang, The Light of Eternal Spring Second Place: Sarah Harris Wallman, Angels and Bears

The Light of Eternal Spring by Angel Di Zhang