Welcome to our One on One Workshop. My name is Danielle Lanzet and I’ll be your One on One Workshop leader. Thank you for trusting me with your words. I look forward to reading your submissions.
You’ll notice other One on One students are joining us. Don’t worry. Your work will be read and edited by my eyes only; however, in this workshop space, you may choose to share and workshop with other One on One writers if you wish.
Methods & Goals
Each work has its own strengths and voice. We will be looking at the individual focus areas of you submission with an eye toward:
Query Letters: Setting the hook, giving the concise synopsis and a brief writer’s biography;
Synopsis: Conveying the narrative arc, plot, conflict, characters and ending in an active and clear manner;
The first ten pages: Make them count!
Publisher’s Marketplace: Researching agents and making smart submission choices.
Thank you for joining us at The Eckleburg Workshops. I promise to do my best in honoring your hard work and talents.
In “Screenwriting I,” we will focus on series scripts and film scripts with a study of scenes from Psycho, Homeland, House of Lies, Winter’s Bone, What’s Eating Gilbert Grape?, and more. You will work with Final Draft 9, preferred screenwriting software to begin new work and/or further explore existing work. If you do not have the Final Draft 9 software, you will be able to download a free, one-month trial version. In this workshop, you will write a five to seven page short film script for potential reworking into a feature length.
Final Draft 9
Final Draft has eclipsed all of its competitors because it is the best. It does everything you could possibly think of and then you can write and not think of it at all.”
Matthew Weiner — Writer / Producer / Director / Emmy® winner Mad Men, The Sopranos, Becker
The Industry Standard
The number-one selling screenwriting software in the world
Over 100 templates that format and paginate screenplays, teleplays and stage plays
Scripts on Windows, Macintosh, or in the Final Draft Writer® app for iPad look exactly the same
The Choice of Professionals
Industry giants such as James Cameron, JJ Abrams, and Aaron Sorkin recommend using Final Draft to write your screenplay
The market leader and a preferred file format of the Writers Guild of America West Online Script Registration
The proud recipient of a 2013 Primetime Engineering Emmy® Award
Goals
To help you learn and improve on the foundational techniques and structure of screenwriting so that you may apply these tools to wherever your screenwriting journey takes you;
To generate two original premises for short screenplays;
To generate a new short screenplay;
OPTIONAL PITCH AND CRITIQUE SESSION: To provide critical feedback on work so you can revise it further and make it as strong as it can be.
The son of a snowplow truck driver and a nurse, Kevin Del Principe grew up in Buffalo, New York. He first cut his teeth working as a schoolteacher while also producing plays and publishing poetry. He later moved to Los Angeles to pursue writing for film and to earn his MFA in Screenwriting at the University of Southern California. During his time at USC, Kevin was a finalist for Script Pipeline’s Student Screenwriting Competition. Since graduation, he continues to write, direct, produce, and teach. Kevin currently teaches screenwriting at Loyola Marymount University. He specializes in short screenplay writing, creating online content, feature writing, and rewriting.
We will explore linguistic techniques and devices in both written and visual works such as The Road and Inglorious Bastards. Our focus will be to study and practice contemporary, surgical, linguistic rule-breaking so to discover our own “rebel linguists” and individual forms of creative voice.
Goals
To identify and read exemplary works of contemporary prose and linguistic techniques as a foundational study to creating your own;
To generate new drafts of work with a focus on organic voice and linguistic creativity;
To provide critical feedback on work so you can revise and make it as strong as it can be;
To help you further strengthen your knowledge of form and to provide you with the environment to better understand your individual voice so you can apply this to future works;
To help you learn and improve on the techniques of writing and self-editing so that you are aware of your preferred forms and boundaries and be able to consider how you might push your preferred forms into your best craft.
In “Writing the Short Poem,” we will focus on narrative poems, stanza work, prose poetry and more.
Writing Goals
To identify and read exemplary works as a foundational study to creating your own;
To generate new drafts of work;
To provide critical feedback on work so you can revise and make it as strong as it can be;
To help you further strengthen your knowledge of form and to provide you with the environment to better understand your individual voice so you can apply this to future works;
To help you learn and improve on the techniques of writing and self-editing so that you are aware of your preferred forms and boundaries and be able to consider how you might push your preferred forms into your best craft.
John Sibley Williams’ writing has appeared in American Literary Review, Third Coast, and RHINO. He is the author of eight poetry collections, most recently Controlled Hallucinations (FutureCycle Press, 2013). Four-time Pushcart nominee, he is the winner of the HEART Poetry Award and has been a finalist for the Rumi, Third Coast, Ian MacMillan, Best of the Net, and The Pinch Poetry Prizes. John serves as editor of The Inflectionist Review and Board Member of the Friends of William Stafford. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Rivier College and an MA in Book Publishing from Portland State University, and he currently works as Marketing Director of Inkwater Press and as a literary agent. John lives in Portland, Oregon.
“Why We Need Litmags” provides students with the tools for entering the indie publishing industry. It includes sessions on how to read a literary magazine and find the ones that “click” with your work, strategies for preparing a strong submission, exercises on writing cover letters and bios, and more. The skills developed in this workshop will help writers who want to approach editors of small book presses with their manuscripts.
Goals
To read literary magazines, and identify potential candidates for submission;
To prepare a strong submission, and create effective materials to streamline the process (e.g., cover letters, bios)
To engage in the literary community through reading, submitting, and conversing with editors and writers;
To respond to feedback in a way that creates even stronger submissions in the future!
“The Poetry Chapbook Workshop” provides students with the tools for forming and submitting poetry chapbooks. Lessons will focus on identifying what makes a chapbook, exploring your voice in the chapbook medium, choosing and ordering poems within your chapbook and research publishers.
Goals
To identify and read exemplary poetry chapbooks as a foundational study to understanding, forming and submitting them;
Thank you for joining us at The Eckleburg Workshops. This course will walk you through the basics of writing convincing and persuasive applications to fellowships, grants, and other opportunities. To begin, simply locate the course lessons at the bottom of this page.
Workshop Goals
To help students be strategic in the ways that they present their work, crafting applications with the grant agency’s mission and objectives in mind.
To help students craft unified application portfolios, in which work samples support the project proposal.
To help students find professional opportunities that match their interests, aesthetic, and experience level.
To help students become aware of resources where they can discover and research professional opportunities.
To help students learn how to present their work professionally and become aware of the etiquette surrounding grant, fellowship, and residency applications.
Workshop Instructor
Kristina Marie Darling is the author of over twenty collections of poetry. Her awards include two Yaddo residencies, a Hawthornden Castle Fellowship, and a Visiting Artist Fellowship from the American Academy in Rome, as well as grants from the Whiting Foundation and Harvard University’s Kittredge Fund. She is currently working toward both a Ph.D. in English Literature at S.U.N.Y.-Buffalo and an M.F.A. in Poetry at New York University.
Counterculture, experimentation, sexuality and rhythm mark the phenomena known as The Beat Generation. Seminal works such as Ginsberg’s Howl, Burrough’s Naked Lunch and Kerouac’s On the Road created national shifts that not only broke down aesthetic boundaries but also social boundaries.
Writing Goals
To understand the philosophies behind the Beat movement, the spirit and energy;
To identify and read exemplary works from The Beats as a foundational study to creating your own;
To generate new drafts of poetry and prose with a focus on rhythm and cadence immortalized in the Beat movement;
To provide critical feedback on work so you can revise and make it as strong as it can be;
To help you further strengthen your knowledge of form and to provide you with the environment to better understand your individual voice so you can apply this to future works;
To help you learn and improve on the techniques of writing and self-editing so that you are aware of your preferred forms and boundaries and be able to consider how you might push your preferred forms into your best craft.
“Spirit of Writing” is a gentle introduction to the identity and declaration of being a professional writer, in a style designed to fire confidence and confirm a practice. No matter what level you have written to, no matter how long you have waited and no matter if you are starting again after a setback, you will finish with new belief in yourself and serious respect for what you bring to the table with your pen.
Goals
To identify and read exemplary works as a foundational study to creating your own;
To generate new drafts of work;
To provide critical feedback on work so you can revise and make it as strong as it can be;
To help you further strengthen your knowledge of form and to provide you with the environment to better understand your individual voice so you can apply this to future works;
To help you learn and improve on the techniques of writing and self-editing so that you are aware of your preferred forms and boundaries and be able to consider how you might push your preferred forms into your best craft.
In this course, you will explore the musicality, sensuality, forms and dance of poetry. Write new poems and open up your old poems with fresh eyes and new revision tools. The course modules are accessible for both master and beginning poets with an eye toward organic voice and diversity of aesthetic and style.
Writing Goals
To identify and read exemplary works of body poetic as a foundational study to creating your own;
To generate new drafts of work with a focus on the body in poetic language;
To provide critical feedback on work so you can revise and make it as strong as it can be;
To help you further strengthen your knowledge of form and to provide you with the environment to better understand your individual voice so you can apply this to future works;
To help you learn and improve on the techniques of writing and self-editing so that you are aware of your preferred forms and boundaries and be able to consider how you might push your preferred forms into your best craft.
Course Contributors
Kristina Marie Darling is the author of over twenty collections of poetry and hybrid prose, which include PETRARCHAN (2013), X MARKS THE DRESS (2013, with Carol Guess), FORTRESS (2014), THE SUN & THE MOON (2014), and GHOST / LANDSCAPE (2016, with John Gallaher). Her books have been described by literary critics as “haunting,” “mesmerizing,” and “complex.” Poet and Kenyon Review editor Zach Savich writes that her body of work is a “singularly graceful and stunningly incisive exploration of poetic insight, vision, and transformation.” Donald Revell writes of her SELECTED POEMS, “Here is a new tradition, alive in bright air.” Kristina’s books have also been reviewed widely in literary magazines, including The Boston Review, Ploughshares, The Iowa Review, The Colorado Review, The Mid-American Review, Pleiades, and The Southern Humanities Review.Within the past few years, her writing has been honored with two Yaddo residencies, a Hawthornden Castle Fellowship, a Visiting Artist Fellowship from the American Academy in Rome, and a Visiting Researcher Fellowship from the University of Washington’s Helen R. Whiteley Center. She has also held artist-in-residence fellowships at the Ucross Foundation, the Helene Wurlitzer Foundation, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Caldera, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, the Writer’s Room at the Betsy – South Beach, the I-Park Foundation, the Hambidge Center for the Creative Arts and Sciences, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts, Playa, Willapa Bay A.I.R., the Dorland Mountain Arts Colony, the Vermont Studio Center, the Ragdale Foundation, the Santa Fe Art Institute, and numerous other institutions. Kristina is the recipient of international literary arts fellowships from the B.A.U. Institute and 360 Xochi Quetzal, as well as grants from Harvard University’s Kittredge Fund, the Whiting Foundation, the Elizabeth George Foundation, the Ora Lerman Trust, the Regional Arts Commission of St. Louis, and the Rockefeller Archive Center. She was also awarded a Morris Fellowship in the Arts. Her work has been recognized three times with the Dan Liberthson Prize from the Academy of American Poets. She has received nominations for the National Book Award, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award, and the Kingsley Tufts Award.Kristina is active as a literary critic, with reviews and essays appearing in such magazines as The Gettysburg Review, The Boston Review, The Colorado Review, Pleiades: A Journal of New Writing, and New Letters. Her critical projects have been supported by grants from the University of Missouri and the University at Buffalo, as well as a Riverrun Foundation Research Fellowship to complete archival work at Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Kristina holds degrees in English Literature and American Culture Studies from Washington University, as well as an M.A. in Philosophy from the University of Missouri. She is currently working toward both an M.F.A. in Poetry at New York University and a Ph.D. in English Literature at S.U.N.Y.-Buffalo, where she was awarded a Presidential Fellowship and a Gender Institute Dissertation Fellowship.
Meg Eden’s work has been published in various magazines, including Rattle, Drunken Boat, Eleven Eleven, and Rock & Sling. Her work received second place in the 2014 Ian MacMillan Fiction contest. Her collections include Your Son (The Florence Kahn Memorial Award), Rotary Phones and Facebook (Dancing Girl Press) and The Girl Who Came Back (Red Bird Chapbooks). She teaches at the University of Maryland. Check out her work at megedenbooks.com.
John Sibley Williams’ writing has appeared in American Literary Review, Third Coast, and RHINO. He is the author of eight poetry collections, most recently Controlled Hallucinations (FutureCycle Press, 2013). Four-time Pushcart nominee, he is the winner of the HEART Poetry Award and has been a finalist for the Rumi, Third Coast, Ian MacMillan, Best of the Net, and The Pinch Poetry Prizes. John serves as editor of The Inflectionist Review and Board Member of the Friends of William Stafford. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Rivier College and an MA in Book Publishing from Portland State University, and he currently works as Marketing Director of Inkwater Press and as a literary agent. John lives in Portland, Oregon.
Sebastian Hasani Paramo received his MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. His work has appeared, or is forthcoming, in Front Porch, Prelude, North American Review, Huizache, upstreet & elsewhere. He has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize and awarded a residency at the Vermont Studio Center. He curates Pegasus Reading Series and is currently a teaching fellow in the doctoral program at The University of North Texas.
Ian Lennart Surraville is an American expatriate writer from New York currently residing in Turkey. Ian has travelled extensively in the Eastern Europe and Turkey, and is a veteran of the United States Army, deployed and stationed in Zurmat province, Afghanistan. Ian has studied theology, history, politics, literature and writing at New York University, Harvard and New School. A journalist, soldier and writer, he has traveled extensively and writes these days from his residence in Ankara where he lives with his twelve-year-old son and a cat named Hemingway and occasionally teaches writing to local students. He speaks English and Korean, reads and writes in French and Chinese, and entertains himself and others around him with broken Turkish and Croatian. Memory plays a peculiar role in all of Ian’s works. Sensitive to human afflictions and conflicts—especially in the Middle East and Eastern Europe, he attempts to convey the voice of pain and despair that either he himself has gone through or witnessed in others in his poems and essays. He was actively involved during the OWS (Occupy Wall Street) movement in New York in 2012 and the Gezi Park Protest in Turkey in 2013. His works have been published in Peripheral Surveys (PS+), of which he is an editor, Edgar Allan Poet poetry anthology, and World Poverty and Human Rights Online journal at Harvard.
Born to a Mexican mother and a Jewish father, Rosebud Ben-Oni is a CantoMundo Fellow and the author of SOLECISM (Virtual Artists’ Collective, 2013). Her work is forthcoming or appears in POETRY, The American Poetry Review, Bayou, Arts & Letters, Puerto del Sol, The Feminist Wire, Dialogist, B O D Y, Lana Turner Journal, Slice Magazine, Borderlands: Texas Poetry Review and elsewhere. In 2010, her story “A Way out of the Colonia” won the Editor’s Prize in Camera Obscura. A Leopold Schepp Scholar at New York University, she won the Seth Barkas Prize for Best Short Story and The Thomas Wolfe/Phi Beta Kappa Prize for Best Poetry Collection. Rosebud was a Rackham Merit Fellow at the University of Michigan where she earned an MFA in Poetry, and was awarded grants from the American Jewish League for Israel and the Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. She was a Horace Goldsmith Scholar at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem where she completed post-graduate research. A graduate of the 2010 Women’s Work Lab at New Perspectives Theater, she is at work a new play MIDNIGHT IN MATAMOROS with Bob Teague of Truant Arts; it will feature music by Carlton Zeus. Her plays have been produced in New York City, Washington DC and Toronto. Rosebud is an Editorial Advisor for VIDA: Women in Literary Arts and at work on her first novel, The Imitation of Crying.
Lisa Marie Basile is an editor, writer and poet. She is the author of APOCRYPHAL and a few chapbooks, war/lock (Hyacinth Girl Press) and Andalucia (The Poetry Society of New York). Lisa Marie is the editor-in-chief of Luna Luna Magazine, and she keeps a lifestyle diary at Ingenue X. Her poetry and other work can or will be seen in PANK, the Tin House blog, Coldfront, The Nervous Breakdown, The Huffington Post, Best American Poetry, Thrush, PEN American Center and the Ampersand Review, The Atlas Review and others. Her writing and work as an editor has been profiled in BuzzFeed, Ravishly, The New York Daily News, Amy Poehler’s Smart Girls, VIDA, Poets & Artists Magazine, Relapse Magazine and other publications. She was a visiting poet at Westfield High School, New York University and speaker at Emerson College. Her work was selected by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Robert Olen Butler for inclusion in the Best Small Fiction 2015 anthology in addition to the Best Emerging Poets Anthology, published by Stay Thirsty Media. Her work can also be seen in the CREDO Anthology, soon to be released by Cambridge Writers’ Workshop. She was nominated for inclusion in the Best American Experimental Writing 2015 anthology.
Sarah Herrington’s writing has appeared in the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Writer’s Digest and she was named a Poet to Watch by Oprah Magazine. She is the author of a collection of poetry, Always Moving (Bowery Books, 2011) and several nonfiction books, including Om Schooled (Addriya Press, 2012), and Essential Yoga (Fair Winds Press, 2013). In addition to writing, she is an advocate for mindfulness and creativity and is the founder and lead facilitator of OM Schooled Teacher Trainings. Sarah is a graduate of New York University’s English and Creative Writing programs and holds an MFA in Creative Writing through Lesley University. She is a grateful member of the Bowery Poetry Club community and has worked for Gotham Writers’ Workshop and Girls Write Now. She divides her time between New York and California.
To identify and read exemplary works as a foundational study to creating your own;
To generate new drafts of work;
To provide critical feedback on work so you can revise and make it as strong as it can be;
To help you further strengthen your knowledge of form and to provide you with the environment to better understand your individual voice so you can apply this to future works;
To help you learn and improve on the techniques of writing and self-editing so that you are aware of your preferred forms and boundaries and be able to consider how you might push your preferred forms into your best craft.
Wendy Ralph, PhD (A.B.D) is an an award-winning author and writing instructor published in Upstreet, The Los Angeles Review, A Clean, Well-Lighted Place, Yemassee, and many others. Wendy is also a Pushcart Prize nominee whose scholarly and teaching excellence earned her high honors at The University of South Carolina and beyond. Learn more about Wendy and her work at www.wendyralph.com.
Stories live in the body and the present moment. In this course, we will use both writing as a way to check in more deeply with life and ourselves AND mindfulness techniques to drop deeper into our body narratives (breath awareness, body scans, how this can inform what we pen). By the end of the course you will have new tools for facilitating writing and drafts of poetry, fiction and/or personal essays.
Writing Goals
To identify and read exemplary works of body narrative as a foundational study to creating your own;
To generate new drafts of work with a focus on breathing and body scanning;
To provide critical feedback on work so you can revise and make it as strong as it can be;
To help you further strengthen your knowledge of form and to provide you with the environment to better understand your individual voice so you can apply this to future works;
To help you learn and improve on the techniques of writing and self-editing so that you are aware of your preferred forms and boundaries and be able to consider how you might push your preferred forms into your best craft.
Sarah Herrington’s writing has appeared in the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Writer’s Digest and she was named a Poet to Watch by Oprah Magazine. She is the author of a collection of poetry, Always Moving (Bowery Books, 2011) and several nonfiction books, including Om Schooled (Addriya Press, 2012), and Essential Yoga (Fair Winds Press, 2013). In addition to writing, she is an advocate for mindfulness and creativity and is the founder and lead facilitator of OM Schooled Teacher Trainings. Sarah is a graduate of New York University’s English and Creative Writing programs and holds an MFA in Creative Writing through Lesley University. She is a grateful member of the Bowery Poetry Club community and has worked for Gotham Writers’ Workshop and Girls Write Now. She divides her time between New York and California.
Tell your story. Discover and explore your organic voice and share your personal, lyrical and body narratives in gripping and essential ways. This essay writing workshop will teach you how to not only compose your narratives, but also how to make your narratives compelling. This workshop will focus on how to create narrative flow within your essay, improve craft techniques such as pace and rhythm, find the best structure to suit your narrative, and revision.
To identify and read exemplary personal essays, lyric essays and body narratives as a foundational study to creating your own;
To generate new drafts of essays;
To provide critical feedback on your essays so you can revise and make them as strong as it can be;
To help you further strengthen your knowledge of various essay forms and to provide you with the environment to better understand your individual voice so you can apply this to future works;
To help you learn and improve on the techniques of writing and self-editing so that you are aware of your preferred forms and boundaries and be able to consider how you might push your preferred forms into your best essay craft.
Course Contributors
Chelsey Clammer is the 2015 winner of the Red Hen Press Nonfiction Manuscript Award for her creative thesis, Circadian. She is a Pushcart Prize-nominated essayist who has been published in The Rumpus, Essay Daily, The Water~Stone Review and Black Warrior Review, among many others. She is the Essays Editor for The Nervous Breakdown. Her first collection of essays, BodyHome, was released in 2015. Her second collection, There Is Nothing Else to See Here, is forthcoming from The Lit Pub. Clammer is currently enrolled in the Rainier Writing Workshop MFA program.
Rae Bryant is the author of the short story collection, The Indefinite State of Imaginary Morals. Her stories and essays have appeared in print and online at The Paris Review, The Missouri Review, Diagram, StoryQuarterly, McSweeney’s, New World Writing, Gargoyle Magazine,and Redivider, among other publications and have been nominated for the Pen/Hemingway, Pen Emerging Writers, &NOW Award and Pushcart Prize. She has won awards in fiction from Whidbey Writers and The Johns Hopkins University as well as fellowships from the VCCA and Hopkins to write, study and teach in Florence. She earned a Masters in Writing from Hopkins where she continues to teach creative writing and is editor in chief of The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review. She has also taught in the International Writing Program at The University of Iowa. Rae is the director of The Eckleburg Workshops. Rae is a member of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts, AWP, NBCC, CLMP and Johns Hopkins Alumni Association. She is represented by Jennifer Carlson of Dunow, Carlson and Lerner.
Winner of the 2011 National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction
Finalist for the 2011 National Book Award in Fiction
Book Overview
In this sumptuous offering, one of our premier storytellers provides a feast for fiction aficionados. Spanning four decades and three prize-winning collections, these 21 vintage selected stories and 13 scintillating new ones take us around the world, from Jerusalem to Central America, from tsarist Russia to London during the Blitz, from central Europe to Manhattan, and from the Maine coast to Godolphin, Massachusetts, a fictional suburb of Boston. These charged locales, and the lives of the endlessly varied characters within them, are evoked with a tenderness and incisiveness found in only our most observant seers.
No matter the situation in which her characters find themselves—an unforeseen love affair between adolescent cousins, a lifetime of memories unearthed by an elderly couple’s decision to shoplift, the deathbed secret of a young girl’s forbidden forest tryst with the tsar, the danger that befalls a wealthy couple’s child in a European inn of misfits—Edith Pearlman conveys their experience with wit and aplomb, with relentless but clear-eyed optimism, and with a supple prose that reminds us, sentence by sentence, page by page, of the gifts our greatest verbal innovators can bestow.
Binocular Vision reveals a true American original, a master of the story, showing us, with her classic sensibility and lasting artistry, the cruelties, the longings, and the rituals that connect human beings across space and time.
Thank you for choosing Eckleburg. We are so happy to have you with us! If you have friends who are looking to focus on their writing now, encourage them to join us, too! This is a free self-serve workshop. If you would like to work with a faculty member on your fiction, essays, poetry and more while receiving individualized readings and feedback, check out our group workshops including Short Story I and II, Short Short Fiction, Novel I, II, III, Personal Essay and more at Online Workshops.
Meet the Author
Edith Pearlman’s fiction has won three O. Henry Prizes and has appeared three times in Best American Short Stories, twice in The Pushcart Prize, and once in New Stories from the South. She is the author of three previous story collections: Vaquita (winner of the Drue Heinz Prize for Literature), Love Among the Greats (winner of the Spokane Fiction Award), and How to Fall (winner of the Mary McCarthy Prize). She lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
Goals
To identify, read and view exemplary works of fiction with a focus on the short story form;
To generate new drafts of work with a focus on short story, narrative-focused and minimalist craft;
To help you further strengthen your knowledge of form and to provide you with the environment to better understand your individual voice so you can apply this to future works;
To help you learn and improve on the techniques of writing and self-editing so that you are aware of your preferred forms and boundaries and be able to consider how you might push your preferred forms into your best craft.
In this submission guidelines course, you will learn from published authors, editors and instructors on how to follow the Universal Manuscript Format. You will explore why following individual journal guidelines is so very important to the success of your works. You will also receive behind the scenes advice from editors. Join published authors and editors from Eckleburg, Nervous Breakdown, Baltimore Review and more!
This course portal is only for current students and alumni who are enrolled in course work with Rae Bryant at The Johns Hopkins University. Students who have enrolled for coursework and have paid their semester tuition will be given a password. Writers interested in applying for graduate program study can find more information at The Johns Hopkins University.
John Sibley Williams’ writing has appeared in American Literary Review, Third Coast, and RHINO. He is the author of eight poetry collections, most recently Controlled Hallucinations (FutureCycle Press, 2013). Four-time Pushcart nominee, he is the winner of the HEART Poetry Award and has been a finalist for the Rumi, Third Coast, Ian MacMillan, Best of the Net, and The Pinch Poetry Prizes. John serves as editor of The Inflectionist Review and Board Member of the Friends of William Stafford. He holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Rivier College and an MA in Book Publishing from Portland State University, and he currently works as Marketing Director of Inkwater Press and as a literary agent. John lives in Portland, Oregon.
Sarah Herrington’s writing has appeared in the New York Times, San Francisco Chronicle, Writer’s Digest and she was named a Poet to Watch by Oprah Magazine. She is the author of a collection of poetry, Always Moving (Bowery Books, 2011) and several nonfiction books, including Om Schooled (Addriya Press, 2012), and Essential Yoga (Fair Winds Press, 2013). In addition to writing, she is an advocate for mindfulness and creativity and is the founder and lead facilitator of OM Schooled Teacher Trainings. Sarah is a graduate of New York University’s English and Creative Writing programs and holds an MFA in Creative Writing through Lesley University. She is a grateful member of the Bowery Poetry Club community and has worked for Gotham Writers’ Workshop and Girls Write Now. She divides her time between New York and California.
Chelsey Clammer is the 2015 winner of the Red Hen Press Nonfiction Manuscript Award for her creative thesis, Circadian. She is a Pushcart Prize-nominated essayist who has been published in The Rumpus, Essay Daily, The Water~Stone Review and Black Warrior Review, among many others. She is the Essays Editor for The Nervous Breakdown. Her first collection of essays, BodyHome, was released in 2015. Her second collection, There Is Nothing Else to See Here, is forthcoming from The Lit Pub. Clammer is currently enrolled in the Rainier Writing Workshop MFA program. 
Rae Bryant is the author of the short story collection, The Indefinite State of Imaginary Morals. Her stories and essays have appeared in print and online at The Paris Review, The Missouri Review, Diagram, StoryQuarterly, McSweeney’s, New World Writing, Gargoyle Magazine,and Redivider, among other publications and have been nominated for the Pen/Hemingway, Pen Emerging Writers, &NOW Award and Pushcart Prize. She has won awards in fiction from Whidbey Writers and The Johns Hopkins University as well as fellowships from the VCCA and Hopkins to write, study and teach in Florence. She earned a Masters in Writing from Hopkins where she continues to teach creative writing and is editor in chief of The Doctor T. J. Eckleburg Review. She has also taught in the International Writing Program at The University of Iowa. Rae is the director of The Eckleburg Workshops. Rae is a member of VIDA: Women in Literary Arts, AWP, NBCC, CLMP and Johns Hopkins Alumni Association. She is represented by Jennifer Carlson of Dunow, Carlson and Lerner.
