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Our (myself and two co-hosts Michael Anthony and Laura Heffernan) largest and most complex contest of the year, Query Kombat is a bracket style competition where 64 query letters and first pages are matched against each other until only one is left. There are six rounds of competition that last the entire month of June and our expert judges leave notes and determine the winners. Agents request from the entries between the 1st and 2nd round, but there’s a catch. No agent requests are revealed until an entry is knocked out of the competition. Entries are known by their fun nicknames. Surviving entries are allowed to revise twice over the six rounds.
Query Kombat 2018 Tournament Calendar:
| Submission Window: May 16th – 18th First round revealed: May 25th |
Submission Window: May 16th – 18th First round revealed: May 25thRound 1: June 1st – 4th Agent round: June 7th -11th Round 2: June 13th – 16th Round 3: June 19th – 21st Round 4: June 24th – 25th Round 5: June 27th -28th Round 6: June 30th -July 1st |
#QueryKombat Posts from 2018:
View 2018 Submission Instructions
Visit the Query Kombat Forum
View 2018 Judges and Chat Dates
Enter to win the Free Pass here
Play the Name the Agent Game
View 2018 Agents here
View Judge nicknames here
#QueryKombat Posts from 2017:
View 2017 Submission Instructions
Click here to enter for my free pass (2017)
View 2017 Judges and chat dates
View 2017 Agents
View 2017 Judge nicknames
#QueryKombat Posts from 2016:
Find all the dates in this blog post
View 2016 Submission Instructions
Click here to enter for my free pass (2016)
Click here to enter via Laura’s free pass (2016)
View 2016 Judges
View 2016 Agents
View 2016 Judge nicknames
View 2016 Kombatants