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The 2025 Unpublished Season: Now Open

$25,000 awarded across 10 categories ...

 

Nonfiction Finalist Set for 2025 Publication

Turner Publishing picks up Kate Evans' "Ditch Your Sh*t!"

 

The 2025 Adaptation Season: Now Open

Seeking novels, nonfiction, comics, and short stories for film and TV.

 

Unpublished Winner "Kill For Love" Released

Laura Picklesimer's debut novel getting wildly positive reviews.

 

Authors: Editors Reviewing New Books

Queries, manuscripts, and one-on-one career coaching.

 
 

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A podcast on publishing and writing, hosted by Book Pipeline execs.

 

Symposium: Events for Authors

"A year-round conference in the arts." For writers, filmmakers, and other creatives.

 

Adaptation Winner Signed by Top Management Company

"Under Color of Law" by Aaron Philip Clark developed by Pipeline, intro'd to Bellevue Productions.

 

Workshop "Recommend" Author Signs with Agent

After recommendation from the Workshop team, Laura Garrison signed with Erin Clyburn at Howland Literary.

 

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Talcott Notch Signs Winner

Unpublished winner Aaron Brooks signs w/Amy Collins

 

Book Pipeline Finalists Secure Publishing Deal

"Unrelenting" by Jessi Honard & Marie Parks released in 2022

 

Adaptation Winner "Memphis" an Acclaimed Bestseller

Tara Stringfellow's novel published by Dial Press (Penguin Random House) in 2022

 

Unpublished Winner Signs with Agent

Carol Mann Agency signs Nonfiction winner Melissa Duge Spiers after Pipeline introduction.

Adaptation Contest

Seeking published books, graphic novels, and short stories for film and TV adaptation. Winner and runner-up receive extensive development with execs and circulation to producers.

Next Deadline: December 27th, 2024

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Unpublished Contest

Reviewing unpublished manuscripts across multiple categories of fiction and nonfiction. Select publishers and literary agents get first look at the winners and runners-up.

Next Deadline: January 15th, 2025

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The Book Pipeline Workshop provides a broad analysis of fiction, nonfiction, and queries, as well as one-on-one coaching, from professional editors. Top material considered for circulation to lit agents.

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About

Launched in 2014, Book Pipeline connects writers worldwide with publishers, agents, and the film industry.

Through two competitions—Unpublished and Adaptation—the company seeks both new and established authors.

Additionally, the Workshop helps fiction and nonfiction authors develop their manuscripts, query letters, and other materials, with consideration for lit agents in Book Pipeline’s network.

The Book Pipeline team has helped many authors secure literary representation and publishing deals through its unique, long-term, hands-on facilitation process. Recent published winners and runners-up include the thriller Kill For Love by Laura Picklesimer and How to Win the War on Truth by Sam Spitale, with Ring by Michelle Lerner, Ditch Your Sh!T by Kate Evans, and several other titles slated for 2025 and 2026 releases.

For over 25 years, Pipeline has bridged the gap between up-and-coming writers and the industry through a unique, long-term, hands-on facilitation process. The result thus far has been $8 million in scripts sold to studios and networks since 1999, several authors finding representation with literary agents and securing publishing deals, and hundreds of projects from emerging writers and filmmakers connected to industry. In total, across Film, Book, and Script Pipeline, approximately 25,000 pieces of creative material are reviewed annually, with almost 4,000 entries submitted to Book Pipeline in 2024.

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From Book Pipeline Writers

“Before winning the 2021 Book Pipeline Adaptation contest, my adventures in the screen trade left more than a bad taste in my mouth. There were false starts and broken promises. Productions that seemed fated for the green light only to wither to dust. Then I wrote Under Color of Law, and I felt invigorated by the possibility of adapting it into a series. I submitted my novel to Book Pipeline, and now, I finally have a team in my corner.”

Aaron Philip Clark (The Color of Law)Adaptation Grand Prize Winner

“Winning the Book Pipeline contest was the biggest career turbo-boost I could imagine. The Pipeline team really makes good on their offer to shepherd you and your project through every step of getting repped and published. They begin the minute you win and work tirelessly from that moment to make opportunities happen. I am beyond thrilled to have signed with Dani Segelman and the Carol Mann Agency, and I will be forever grateful to Book Pipeline for introducing us!”

Melissa Duge Spiers (The Glory Whole)Unpublished Grand Prize Winner (Nonfiction)

“The Book Pipeline team is fantastic. They know the publishing industry extremely well, and they want every writer to succeed. Their support and encouragement have been phenomenal. Erica Davis’s notes gave me the inspiration I needed to finish my manuscript, and Peter Malone Elliott introduced me to an agent (Erin Clyburn at Howland Literary) who is a perfect match for my writing. If you’re thinking about submitting to the workshop and wondering if it’s worthwhile: do it! This experience opened doors I would otherwise have been knocking on for years.”

Laura Garrison (Toad Skin)Workshop "Recommends" Author

“The Book Pipeline team has been incredible throughout this journey, offering me support, encouragement and assistance with querying my debut novel. Natalie Kimber is a perfect match, and it wouldn’t have been possible without Book Pipeline. I am thrilled to be joining The Rights Factory!”

Laura Picklesimer (Kill for Love)Unpublished Grand Prize Winner (Mystery/Thriller)

“Placing as a finalist in the Book Pipeline Unpublished Contest was just what I needed to finally secure representation with a literary agent and ultimately sell my project to a reputable publisher. The Book Pipeline team took personal interest in my writing - not only in my unpublished manuscript, but screenplays as well. Their enthusiasm and encouragement has been a welcome bulwark in my journey as a writer.”

Samuel C. Spitale (How to Tell What's True)Unpublished Finalist (Nonfiction)

“Last year I lurked on the Book Pipeline site, mouse gliding like a Ouija board oculus to the “submit” button. I paused…do I believe in my work? Yes! *click!* Soon after, my book is circulated to Hollywood. These guys are for real.”

Tyler Knight (Burn My Shadow)Adaptation Finalist

“What sets Pipeline apart is the personal connection that’s made between them and the writers. As a novelist, being a finalist in the Adaptation contest propelled me to adapt my novel Anna Incognito into a screenplay, and everyone at Pipeline provided excellent guidance and encouragement. They are stellar human beings, regular people you can talk to, but also people who know a LOT about the film industry.”

Laura Preble (Anna Incognito)Adaptation Finalist

“Book Pipeline is a dream to work with. They immediately saw a clear vision of the adaptation for my book and it was brilliant. They knew just what parts of my story to hone in on and how to make them even more appealing to execs. I'm thrilled and honored to work with a team like this!”

Amy B. Scher (This is How I Save My Life)Adaptation Grand Prize Winner

Spotlight: Book Reviews

Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks

By Spotlight: Book Reviews
Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels and Crooks by Patrick Radden Keefe narrative nonfiction Doubleday Books—June 2022 Long-form journalism is dying. In our current age of clickbait headlines, viral videos, and pontificating tweets, that unfortunately true axiom is perpetually drilled into my head. Those gloriously in-depth profiles/features in publications like Vanity Fair, Esquire, and Rolling Stone that I used to devour growing up? They are becoming rarer than an Amur Leopard sighting. It’s a damn shame—but that’s the reality of an ever-evolving media landscape competing for rapidly shortening attention spans and waning interest in global affairs. Enter Patrick Radden Keefe. This esteemed New Yorker staff writer and author has been carrying the torch for long-form journalism since 2006 with great aplomb—he’s been decorated with literary awards such as the National Magazine Award for Feature Writing, the National Books Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, and the Orwell Prize for Political…
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