Manuscript
Critique Service
For an additional $45 fee, registered conference
participants may submit up to ten (10) typed,
double-spaced pages in the following categories: novel,
screenplay, short story, creative nonfiction, memoir,
children’s or YA.
A written critique will be provided before the
conference by one of the following faculty members:
Kathleen Duey, Charlotte Cook, Dr. Kate Gale, Paula
Huston, Merrily Kutner, Becky Levine, Melissa Pritchard,
Diane Lindsey Reeves, and Victoria Zackheim.
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Limited Poetry Critique
Poet Dr.
Kate Gale has offered
to critique poems. She will critique up to
10 (1
to 2) page poems for the regular critique fee of
$45. She can only do a limited number, however,
so the first to signup will get this service. |
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Limited
Children's
Picture Book Critique
Picture
Book Author Merrily Kutner will do up to 20
Children’s Picture Book Critiques. Manuscripts
are limited to 1,500 words at the regular
critique fee of $45. The first 20 to register
for the conference and request Ms. Kutner’s
review will be assigned her critique services. |
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Electronic submissions are
preferred. Send the manuscript as a Microsoft Word
(.doc) or rich text format (.rtf) attachment. Clearly
mark at the top of the first page your name, phone
number, email address, and the
category of the manuscript.
Also, please include in the body of your email or on a
separate page a SHORT paragraph (no more than 50 words)
that says what your manuscript is about and who is the
intended audience.
Please NO illustrations,
photographs, or book mock-ups. We accept manuscript text
only.
Electronic
submissions should be emailed
to
lhinson@cuesta.edu
See a sample
submission:
Sample
Manuscript Critique
If you are unable to submit
electronically, mail entries to:
Writers' Conference
Manuscript
Community Programs
PO Box 8106
San Luis Obispo, CA
93403-8106
Be sure to include $45 submission fee per entry at time of
conference registration.
Return
to
Conference Fees Page to register
Submissions
must be received by 4pm on Friday,
August 13, 2010
Submissions not following requested guidelines will be
returned.
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