2022 WRITER'S STUDIO

New in 2022, the Writer’s Studio is a rare and exciting opportunity for you to meet one-on-one with a prominent guest author to discuss your writing, your life as a writer, and anything you would like to ask them about their own practice and writerly journey. Before the session, you will submit 15 pages of a manuscript to your author of choice, along with up to five questions that will guide your focused, one-on-one conversation with them. In a 40-minute session during the second week of the conference, you and the author will meet via video chat to discuss such topics as macro strategies for revising your manuscript, your writing process, artistic and professional goals, and anything else that may help your craft and your career. Rather than a space for workshop-style line-edits, formal critique, or shopping your manuscript, this will be an intimate, personalized mentorship conversation centered on your individual needs as a writer.

Instructions for submission of sample manuscripts are on this page, just below the author profiles.

 

Krys Malcolm Belc
Author
A white transmasculine person with a close-shaved buzz cut, large plastic-framed glasses, and reddish beard.
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Anjali Enjeti
Author
Brown-skinned woman in late forties with dark brown and white layered straight hair that falls past shoulders. Brown long sleeve v-neck shirt, brown pearls. In the background, a woods with bare trees.
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Ann Hood
Author
Ann Hood
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Calvin Kasulke
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Calvin Kasulke
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Crystal Maldonado
Author
A fat, Puerto Rican woman in her mid-thirties with long, dark, curly hair, black cateye glasses, and wearing a small smile and a star-speckled navy and gold dress.
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William Martin
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William Martin
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Hank Phillippi Ryan
Author
A white woman in her 60s with streaked straight blond hair in a shoulder length pageboy, wearing red lipstick and a black suit and pearls, sitting in an upholstered armchair with a bouquet of orange and yellow flowers behind her.
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Rebecca Rolland
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A white woman in her forties, with brown hair and eyes.
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Maurice Ruffin
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Maurice Ruffin
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Sanjena Sathian
Author
Indian American cisgender woman, black hair, green sweater, leaning against a tree.
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SJ Sindu
Author
A light-skinned South Asian queer femme with short curly hair and red lipstick, in her early-thirties, wearing a black blouse.
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FORMAT & SUBMIT YOUR WRITING SAMPLE

Use our Writer's Studio Checklist to ensure you have formatted your sample according to our guidelines. Here are the basics:

  • One page containing up to five questions to guide your focused, one-on-one conversation with the author.
  • No more than fifteen (15) double-spaced pages of a fiction or nonfiction manuscript. Pages will be numbered, titled, in black 12-point Times New Roman font, on white 8.5 x 11–inch electronic pages, with one-inch margins on all sides.
  • Include your name and the title of your work at the top of every page.
  • Your manuscript will be submitted in a single Microsoft Word document.
  • The title of the file MUST be your full name, e.g., ToniMorrison.doc. Files must end in a .doc, .docx, or .pdf extension.

If you have registered for multiple Writer's Studio Sessions, you will submit a submission form once per author.

Submit your sample by 11:59 PM EDT on Monday, April 4, 2022. Under no circumstances will we accept late submissions. We cannot offer refunds or credits if you do not submit on time.

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