Guidelines and expectations

Please limit your submission for critique to the work of a single person. Please include with this submission an brief intro (of no more than 200 words), describing the following information: your recent experience as a writer and your future writing intentions — complete with a concise summary of your work for critique. Please ensure that your submission conforms to editorial standards of care in both diction and grammar. You can expect the writer-in-residence to consider your work with attention to the various details of such professionalism.

Please consider some questions to ask yourself before you submit your work for consideration:

What am I striving to retell — and to whom?
What emotion do I wish to evoke in a reader?
How can I revise my work to fulfill my goal?
How does this work sound when read aloud?

Please submit work that feels as polished as possible to you (with a specific, concrete plan in mind) — rather than sending samples of work in an early stage of unfocussed production.

Writers of prose can send 10 pages of work (amounting to no more than 2,000 words: double-spaced, paginated, in a 12-point font, preferably Times New Roman), using MSWord (.docx).

Writers of poems can send 10 pages of work (amounting to no more than 10 short poems, presented as intended for publication, paginated in a 12-point font), using MSWord (.docx).

Please email your submission (along with your brief intro) as one attachment to this address: christianbok1@gmail.com

Please note that all communication between the student and the writer-in-residence constitutes a private service, not suitable for dissemination in any other context (such as social media).