Jen St. Jude & Jas Hammonds
Jen St. Jude is a Lambda Literary Fellow and writes YA, sapphic, speculative fiction that somehow always involves soccer. She is an editor at Chicago Review of Books and Arcturus Magazine. She participated in Pitch Wars as a 2019 mentee, and signed with her agent at Folio Literary Management through that process. She has degrees in Literature & Creative Writing from Colby College and Harvard University but also knows formal educations are often not the most important ones. She is serious about literature but doesn’t think literature needs to take itself too seriously.
Represented by:
Erin Harris
Jas Hammonds is a fiction writer & flight attendant currently living in New Jersey. She has received fellowships and residencies from Lambda Literary, MacDowell, and Sundress Academy for the Arts. She is a KidLit Pride scholar for the Highlights Foundation. When she's not flying or writing, she can be found taking too many naps or eating all the sweets in the house.
Represented by:
Suzie Townsend
Mentoring:
Category: Mentor, Submission package reviewer
Age: Adult, Young Adult
Genres: Contemporary Fiction, Literary Fiction, Romance (contemporary), Sci-Fi (light/soft), Speculative Fiction, Women's Fiction
#MSWL:
LGBTQIA+ stories (QTBIPOC at the front!). We love joy but appreciate pain & hardship too. Mental illness, coming-of-age, found family/family drama. Swoony romances, flawed characters, small towns, travel, summer job vibes, sports, spec-fic/light sci-fi grounded in reality, happy endings, college-aged YA.