The Las Vegas Writers Conference
Sponsored by The Henderson Writers Group
$5.00
The First Page Read is a long-standing tradition of the Las Vegas Writer’s Conference.
For a $5 donation, your First Page (usually the first page of a novel) is given a drawing number. During Lunch on Friday and Saturday, we will draw numbers and read the corresponding first page to a panel comprised of our agents/publishers/acquisition editors. They will each raise a hand at the point they’d stop reading your first page. Comments then follow on why they raised their hands.
You may submit more than one first page. You may submit a first page more than once.
Please note: An entry into the First Page Reads is no guarantee that your page will be selected and read to the panel.
Manuscript format: 1 inch margins, double spaced, Times or Times New Roman, 12 point font. Please include title and genre in the Header. Please do not include your name on your first page. All submissions MUST be in PDF file format.
You must submit your entry BEFORE the conference. Send your entry as a PDF file to firstpagereads@
This program has been funded, in part, by the Nevada Arts Council, a state agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency.