Spring 2025 Non-Fiction Book Development Workshop
So you wanna join our elite writing workshop?
Maybe take a look around the Jaguar website, so you have a feel for the imprint, and the kind of work we publish.
Our mission is to create the world’s most beautiful books on the art & science of connection.
We are seeking works of literary merit, written by interesting people with developed voices and unique takes on what makes us human.
Our non-fiction development workshop is capped at 8 participants who we are interested in mentoring literarily.
It will meet every other week on Tuesdays from 11 am to 1 pm PST from February through mid-May 2025, with an optional post-workshop 5-day work period in Florence, Italy in June 2025 (you’ll have to get there and help us pay rent at the villa, but there is no tuition fee for this).
You will be part of a small, close-knit community of very interesting peers, all working on books at the cutting-edge of the art & science of connection.
Sound like fun? Apply below.
(If you’ve never written a book proposal before, I direct you to Jane Friedman, whose The Business of Being a Writer is one of the most useful books I’ve used to activate writing as a livelihood. Here is her brief take on the non-fiction book proposal. You’ll submit a short one of these to us as part of your application. We want to see that you’ve thought deeply about how your will get your book into the world.)