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The North Carolina Writers’ Network offers an ongoing literary critiquing, editing, and manuscript consultation service for its members. Through this program, developing or emerging writers have the opportunity to open a dialogue about their work with established writers and editors of varying backgrounds and areas of expertise.
"It was unbelievably helpful . . . I was totally impressed, and it was well worth the price. You have a very satisfied member."
-NCWN member Reid Wilson
Fees
A base fee of $30 must be included in the total amount paid to the Network.
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Prose/Poetry/Plays/Screenplays (5-page minimum):
5-50 pages - $3/page; each page thereafter, $2/page
Poems must be single-spaced and only one poem per page is allowed.
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Manuscript Consultation/Mentoring (post-critique, with no base fee)
$50/hour (in person or via phone)
Instructions
All manuscripts should be double-spaced, single-sided, with 1-inch margins and in a 12-point font. Poetry must be single-spaced with a limit of only one poem per page. No fancy fonts, please.
Please indicate your first preference plus two back-ups for a critiquer (see list below). Otherwise, we will select an appropriate critiquer based on availability.
Please send your manuscript, along with payment (checks must be made payable to the North Carolina Writers' Network) and a self-addressed envelope with postage sufficient enough for the critiquer to return your manuscript, to:
NCWN Critiquing Service
P.O. Box 21591
Winston-Salem, NC 27120
The critiquer will return the manuscript with comments directly to you.
If you have any questions or wish to schedule a consultation, please call us at 336.293.8844 or e-mail
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Critiquers
The Network’s roster of critiquers is selected in accordance with the highest standards of excellence, including publication requirements and extensive mentoring and editing experience.
Ann Deagon -- poetry
Deagon took her doctorate in Classics at UNC Chapel Hill and served as Professor of Humanities and Writer in Residence at Guilford College until her retirement. She was editor of The Guilford Review, director of PoetryCenter Southeast, and was instrumental in establishing the North Carolina Writers’ Network. She has received an NEA Fellowship in Literature. Since retirement, she has worked in theater, advertising, and film, while continuing to present readings and sing her original blues.
Maggi Ann Grace -- fiction, poetry
Grace received her MFA. in Creative Writing from UNC Greensboro, and has taught creative writing to children and adults in classrooms, prisons, shelters, summer camps, and through continuing education programs. Her poems and stories have been widely published in literary magazines and in the anthology series by Papier-Mache Press, including If I Had It to Do Over, I Would Pick More Daisies; I Am Becoming the Woman I Wanted; and Grow Old Along with Me, the Best is Yet to Be.
Lucinda Grey -- fiction, poetry
Grey teaches creative writing at UNC Charlotte where she edited Southern Poetry Review for several years. Her 1994 book, Ribbon Around a Bomb, won the Quentin R. Howard Poetry Prize. International experiences in Mexico, Spain, and France have strongly influenced Grey’s work. In 1992 she won the North Carolina Arts Council’s writer’s residency in southern France, and she returned to teach in France in 1995. Her recent work has appeared in Tar River Poetry, Shenandoah, and Poet & Critic.
Linda Hobson -- fiction, nonfiction
Hobson, the author of a book on novelist Walker Percy and editor of a second, has a Ph.D in English from the University of Alabama and is a graduate of both Denison and Duke. She is at present an editor and book reviewer. Hobson has edited many published works of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry as well as taught writing to adults and to secondary- and university-level students. Her literary interests are southern fiction, American fiction, creative nonfiction, and English/British literature.
Betsy Humphreys -- nonfiction (journalistic or creative)
Humphreys has been a weekly columnist for the Lenoir News-Topic newspaper; Southeast regional editor of Highways, a national travel magazine; a regional reporter for State Journal; and editorial staffer for Cost Engineering. She has been a freelance writer for twenty-five years. Her articles on travel, business, religion, and family life have been published in the Charlotte Observer, Wonderful West Virginia, North Carolina Literary Review, and Marriage and Family Living. She has won Charlotte Writers, NC Silver Arts, and ByLine Magazine creative non-fiction contests.
Lloyd Little -- fiction
Little is the author of three published novels to date, including the Pen-Hemingway winner Parthian Shot, which was published by Viking Press and later by additional publishers in paperback editions. A graduate of the University of North Carolina, he has taught creative writing at UNC-Chapel Hill and in the state's community college system and has lectured at various literary events. He is working on another novel and has edited numerous works of fiction. His literary interests are contemporary American and Southern fiction and he enjoys working with writers who have a variety of experiences.
Susan Stafford Kelly -- line editing, fiction
Susan Stafford Kelly attended St. Catherine’s School, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and earned a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from Warren Wilson College. She has twice been a fellow at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and has taught creative writing for Woodberry Forest School, Salem College, UNCG, and the North Carolina Writers' Network. Her novel, How Close We Come, won the Carolina Novel Award in 1997, was reissued nationally in 1998 by Warner Books, was an Alternate Selection in the Book-of-the-Month Club, and was published in Russian and German. In 2001, Warner published her second novel, Even Now. Pegasus Books published her novels, The Last of Something in 2006, Now You Know in 2007, and in May 2010, her fifth novel, By Accident, which has been awarded the 2010 Sir Walter Raleigh Award.
Steven Manchester -- line editing, fiction
Manchester is the published author of twelve books including The Unexpected Storm - The Gulf War Legacy, Jacob Evans, A Father's Love, Warp II and At The Stroke of Midnight, as well as several books under the pseudonym, Steven Herberts. He is an accomplished speaker and currently teaches the popular workshops, "Publish: See Your Work In Print and Writing Fiction That Sells" for UMASS - Dartmouth, Southcoast Learning Network in Massachusetts, as well as the Learning Connection of Rhode Island. As a professional editor, he provides line-by-line editing for spelling, punctuation, grammar, and sentence structure, as well as critical commentary on plot, character development, scene setting, and dialogue. As a well-published author, Manchester understands the polish needed to approach potential agents and publishers and will review cover letters and synopses. He has also written The Author's Toolbox, assisting other writers in their quest to be published. See: www.stevenmanchester.com.
Ruth Moose -- fiction, poetry
Moose teaches creative writing at UNC Chapel Hill. She is the author of two collections of short stories. She is also the author of four collections of poetry, most recently Making the Bed and Smith Grove. Her stories have appeared in Atlantic Monthly, Redbook, and Ladies Home Journal, as well as in many university and college publications. She has received the Robert Ruark Foundation prize, three PEN Syndicated Awards for short story, a NC Literary Fellowship, and a MacDowell Fellowship.
Jacqueline K. Ogburn -- children’s fiction
Ogburn worked for ten years in book publishing in New York, primarily as a children’s book editor, editing picture books, nonfiction, and young adult novels. Since moving to Durham, she has been a freelance editor and a small press publisher. She has published five picture books, including The Jukebox Man, winner of the AAUW Juvenile Literature Award, and a collection of poems, The Reptile Ball, an ABA Pick of the Lists book.
Elizabeth Oliver -- flash fiction, short fiction, nonfiction, line editing
Oliver is the founding managing editor of The Rambler, a national literary magazine. She has extensive experience critiquing and editing across genres, from flash fiction to long memoir pieces. She is passionate about the preservation of personal voice in stories and has worked with writers with a variety of experience, from beginners to accomplished authors. Oliver holds a BA in journalism and an MFA in creative writing; her work has appeared in various publications and the flash fiction anthology Long Story Short (UNC Press).
William Olsen -- screenplays
Olsen's movies have been seen by audiences worldwide and have been distributed by CBS/FOX Video, Showtime, The Movie Channel, USA Network, and Troma Entertainment. 50th Street Films, Inc. of New York distributes his latest film, Southern Belles. He is scheduled to direct Hiding Ezra from his screenplay, produced by Stewart Lippe, of Ulee’s Gold, and Sam Irvin, executive producer of Gods and Monsters.
Alice Osborn -- speculative fiction, fiction, memoir, poetry
Alice Osborn, MA, is the author of two books of poetry, Unfinished Projects (Main Street Rag, 2010) and Right Lane Ends (Catawba, 2006); she is a manuscript editor, freelance writer, and storyteller. A former Raleigh Charter High School English teacher, Alice has served as a Writer-in-Residence in the Artists in the Schools program since 2009 and has taught creativity, memoir, and business workshops to Triangle residents for five years. Her work appears in Raleigh’s News and Observer, The Pedestal Magazine, and in numerous journals and anthologies. Website: www.aliceosborn.com.
Sandra Redding -- fiction, poetry, nonfiction
Redding, a Greensboro freelance writer, editor, and teacher of writing, has published more than twenty-five short stories and over fifty poems. Some of her work has been anthologized in books such as the celebrated When I am an Old Woman, I Shall Wear Purple (Papier-Mache Press). She regularly contributes articles and reviews to Our State magazine and other publications. Redding was editorial coordinator and a contributing writer for Greensboro: A Portrait of Progress (Community Communications, 1998).
Amy Rogers -- fiction and nonfiction
Amy Rogers was a founder and the Publisher of Novello Festival Press, the award-winning independent press that put more than 300 writers into print since its founding in 2000. Rogers’ books include Hungry for Home: Stories of Food from Across the Carolinas and Red Pepper Fudge and Blue Ribbon Biscuits. Her work was included in Cornbread Nation 1: The Best of Southern Food Writing. Rogers is a frequent food and culture commentator for NPR station WFAE. Her work has appeared in numerous publications, including the design magazine American Bungalow, the literary magazine the Oxford American, and the Charlotte Observer. She has been Writer in Residence at the Wildacres Center and a program presenter at dozens of events, festivals, arts centers, schools, and other venues.
Ellen Shepard -- plays, screenplays
Ellen Shepard, a native of Los Angeles, is a professional screenwriter and playwright. A member of the WGA, she has developed screenplays for Universal Pictures, Blake Edwards Entertainment, and Par Par Productions. Shepard is a noted playwright and director, with plays having been produced in Los Angeles and North Carolina. She studied writing with Pulitzer prize-winning playwright Paul Zindel at the Actors Studio West, who said this of her work, "At no time since I've been here (at the Actor's Studio) through all our sessions, did my mind ever have to shift into any critical mode... You just have total confidence in what you're doing here. " She is on the faculty of St. Augustine's College in Raleigh, where she developed their BA degree in Film. Her classes include Intro to Screenwriting, Feature Screenwriting I & II, Character Development, and Playwriting.
Michael A. Shinn -- mystery, nonfiction
Shinn teaches and tutors English and composition at Central Piedmont Community College and UNC Charlotte. His book reviews have appeared in The Chapel Hill Newspaper, the Southern Pines Pilot, and The Winston-Salem Journal. The National Humanities Center and Pembroke Magazine have published his work on murder mysteries and NC literature. In 1999, Theatre Charlotte produced his playlet, Miss Hilda Hunts. He has also recently had plays read at the Converse College New Play Festival and at UNCC.
Eleanora E. Tate -- children’s fiction
Tate is a folklorist, short story writer, journalist, and author of nine children’s books. She is a 1999 Zora Neale Hurston Award winner; a 2000 Dr. Annette Lewis Phinazee Award recipient; and a Bread Loaf Fellowship recipient. Two of her books have won Parents Choice Awards; two others were ABA Pick of the Lists. Another was made into an award-winning PBS film, and a sixth was both a Notable Children’s Trade Book and a CSC Children’s Book of the Year. Her newest book is The Minstrel’s Melody (Pleasant Company, 2001).
Karyn Traut -- plays
Traut received her AB degree from U.C. Berkeley and MFA in Theatre Arts from UCLA. Traut’s plays have been produced in Los Angeles, New York, and North Carolina, and readings of her plays have been staged in Nashville and Atlanta. She is founder and artistic director of Penihelion Theater Company, based in Chapel Hill. She has directed and produced the Kindred Spirit Plays Blue Opal by Jaki Shelton Green and Ladri Waits by Alan Riley Jones. Her play Berkeley Brocculi was given a literary performance at Café Loon Loon in New York City.
Robert Wallace -- fiction, nonfiction, line editing
Wallace has received an Emerging Artist grant from the Durham Arts Council, a Writer’s Fellowship from the NC Arts Council, and has been a Blumenthal reader. He has had fiction and nonfiction published in various journals and newspapers, including the Bryant Literary Review, Wellspring, Aethlon, the O.Henry Festival Stories, and the Raleigh News & Observer. His work has also been in several anthologies, including Racing Home: New Short Stories by Award Winning North Carolina Writers. Wallace's first novel was published in 2007. A Hold On Time was published by Paper Journey Press.
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