Anna has gotten to know the “screenplays are like blueprints” comparison quite literally while working as an architect by day and sticking to her passion of writing by night. Using the skills gained from a decade of building in our own world, she crafts fantasy/sci-fi realms and alternate realities to serve as metaphors for real-world matters.
After placing in numerous competitions over the years, Anna got a chance to work with an independent studio to develop their idea into a series, the pilot of which is currently in development.
Always attracted to different forms of storytelling, she has recently expanded into and fell in love with comic book writing, adapting several of her screenplays into the visual medium.
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.
Reviewing unpublished manuscripts across multiple categories of fiction and nonfiction. Select publishers and literary agents get first look at the winners and runners-up.
Unpublished finalist (Nonfiction) Kate Evans was introduced by Pipeline to agent Cindy Bullard of Birch Literary in 2023, who soon after signed her. Ditch Your Sh*t!: How to Declutter the Crap Out of Your Life and Home is slated for publication in October 2025 through Turner Books.
The Woman in the Waves by Camille Booker, winner of the 2022 Unpublished season (Mystery/Thriller), released March 2025 from Hawkeye.
Michelle Lerner signed with Veronica Goldstein of UTA (formerly Fletcher & Co) after placing as a finalist in the 2020 Unpublished Outsider category with her experimental novel Ring. The book released in January 2025. Read her interview on Pipeline Artists.