WRITING & EDITING OFFERINGS

I offer a variety of services on a limited, first-come, first-served basis

If you are a new client, please apply a one-time 15% off discount

TO BOOK A SERVICE EMAIL: ccnycinc@gmail.com

SIGNATURE 1X1 MENTORING

Real-time dialogue and coaching around existing writing projects and/or building into a more consistent writing practice to create new work via customized prompts, exercises and reading assignments. Sessions take place via Zoom or telephone at mutually agreed-upon slots, weekly, bi-monthly, monthly, etc.. All genres/levels

3-hour package: $435

6-hour package: $860

9-hour package: $1180

POETRY EDITING SUPPORT

Written feedback on manuscript drafts, including a full global editing report (big picture observations and suggestions for development and refinement), as well as local, in-line feedback, and proofreading.

up to 25 pages: $335 + 15 min Zoom or telephone follow-up call

up to 50 pages: $680 + 30 min

up to 75 pages: $920 + 1 hour

up to 150 pages: $1560 + 2 hours

PRIVATE GROUP CRITIQUE

For you and up to TWO other poets of your choosing/in your network via Zoom. Sessions available on a monthly basis.

$100 per poet per 2-hour session / 1x per month

(group critiques typically meet anywhere from 3-12 sessions throughout the year for a discount)

*if you are interested in this option, but do not have a group and would like to be matched up within a group, let me know!

PUBLIC GROUP POETRY WORKSHOPS

Public workshops are offered seasonally and meet via Zoom. They can be sequential or standalone reading/generative/critique workshops that meet for 2-3 hours per session. Past themes have included, “Poetry and Parenthood”, “Love Poetry” and “How to Revise”.

Themes are announced here and via my monthly mailer. Please email the above address to be added to the mailer. Current workshops are mentioned below.

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FALL 2023 WORKSHOP REGISTRATION NOW OPEN:

Gold Poems: Songs of Autumn

Saturday, October 14, 2023

10:30a-1:30p EST

$110

To usher in autumn, a season of creative harvest, transition, aging, recalibrating, revelry, this workshop is an opportunity to harness this energy poetically within a group setting. To this end, we will engage in a variety of modes - we will closely examine works by classic and contemporary poets, from John Keats and Edna St. Vincent Millay, to Gwendolyn Brooks and Joy Harjo, who have engaged with these themes; and will intertwine our own writing about and through this season with our group reading and discussions.

CONTEMPORARY BOOK CLUB

Offered during fall and spring. Fall 2023 info below.

Reading and discussion of poetry is foundational to any poetic writing practice; this option helps to provide a structure within which you may hone your close reading skills by working with different contemporary poetry collections and examining their construction and content to get a feel for the current landscape.

Sessions will run slightly differently from a typical book club in that while we will be sharing self-to-text reflection, we will deeply engage with the book at hand, unpacking form and content, focusing on both individual poems, as well as the way the pieces coalesce to form a whole.

Selections:

September: Couplets, Maggie Milner

October: Quiet, Victoria Adukwei Bulley

November: tbd! we will vote on a recent poetry release!

We will meet once each month for a two-hour session, September through November, at a mutually agreed-upon date and time via Zoom. Sessions will be recorded for you to return to.

To keep the experience intimate, space is limited to SEVEN members and only will run with a minimum of THREE members. You must commit to the three-month experience.

Registration fee: $315

Registration closes September 1