How does it work?
- Once you’ve selected your submission option (10 or 20 pages), we’ll reach out to you via email to confirm we’ve received your payment.
- We’ll ask you to sign a respectful workplace policy (your mentor will have already signed one).
- Then, we’ll match you with a mentor – one of our published poets with teaching and/or editing skills (and very fine books!). Our current mentors include Sarah Venart and Manahil Bandukwala.
- You’ll be matched within one week of signing up. Please indicate your preference of mentor:
- Manahil Bandukwala
- Sarah Venart
- No preference
- You’ll send your pages via email in one document to your mentor.
- Your mentor will take up to 2 weeks to read, think about, and respond to the poems via thoughtful written feedback in a summary page and on the poems themselves. Feedback will be received via email. Mentorship includes one round of feedback.
- Once your mentorship is completed, the poet will let us know, which will prompt us to send you a post-mentorship feedback form, so we can learn from and grow the program from your experience.
Success Stories
“I think this program fills a need for many aspiring poets who wish to go beyond introductory poetry workshops to move into the process of how to edit their work. This has definitely been the missing piece in my work and I will emerge from this with many more tools in my tool belt.” — Krista A.