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Mentoring Program
Writers at every level can use guidance when it comes to shaping and refining their work. The Creative Nonfiction Mentoring Program pairs you with one of our seasoned, professional editors and writers who will design a program around your writing needs.
Our Mentors can:
- Develop your technique and approach to creative nonfiction composition
- Review your manuscript and offer a detailed evaluation and plan of action
- Help you revise, edit and shape your manuscript from the first page to the last
- Assign and evaluate writing assignments crafted to cultivate your strengths and address your weaknesses
- Recommend options for publishing your polished work
Whether you’re trying to publish, find your voice as a writer or receive specific feedback, let Creative Nonfiction's mentors create a program that’s right for you.
Creative Nonfiction Mentoring Program Offerings
New Writer’s Review - $250
This mentorship is intended for writers who are new to the art of creative nonfiction. Your mentor will review and critique up to 25 typed, double-spaced pages of your writing. This mentorship is meant to advise you on general writing technique and goals. The session includes written commentary on the pages, a general evaluation, and a follow-up phone call or e-mail with your mentor. |
Pre-publication Review - $250
This unit is designed to help writers who have a project that needs final polishing before submission for publication. This single session module will focus on fine-tuning up to 25 double-spaced pages of a single manuscript and offer suggestions for where and how to submit it. The review includes written commentary on the pages and a broad evaluation. This package also includes a follow-phone call or e-mail with the mentor. |
Basics in a Nutshell - $750
This course will introduce you to writing profiles, reportage, personal/descriptive essays, and memoir—the kind of literary nonfiction published in literary journals, literary magazines such as The New Yorker and The Atlantic Monthly, and full-length narrative nonfiction books. In addition to practicing the fundamental tools of nonfiction—reporting, interviewing, research, and immersion—you will study and write nonfiction rooted in scene, character and voice. This intensive course is designed to take place over six to eight weeks. |
Mini-Mentor Program - $1500
These five sessions are the equivalent of half of an individualized graduate level course. This includes an overview of the genre, directed readings based on your needs, intensive conversations about the readings, specific writing assignments determined by you and your mentor, and focused, graduate workshop-level reviews of what you’ve written. |
Total Mentor Program - $2500
A full-fledged, ten-session individualized course that includes an overview of the genre, directed readings based on your needs, intensive conversations about the readings, specific writing assignments determined by you and your mentor, and focused, graduate workshop-level reviews of what you have written. This course is equivalent to a non-credit M.F.A. course. |
Customized Module - flexible pricing
We allow for alternative mentoring structures and prices based on individual needs. Writers of all levels can use a push in the right direction, and our skilled mentors will build a flexible module around your writing needs.
You may request a mentor, and we will honor that request based on availability and the mentor’s experience in your area of writing. We ask for full tuition payment when you sign up, but flexible payment arrangements can be requested. Please note: tuition is non-refundable after you have been assigned a mentor, and course requirements must be completed within one year. |
The Creative Nonfiction Mentors
Creative Nonfiction's mentors teach everything from technique and writing methods to confidence and professionalism. These experienced writers and editors aren't looking for typos. They're looking for promise and potential.
| Anita Diggs: Former Senior Editor of fiction and nonfiction at Random House and Editor at Warner Books. Author of: A Mighty Love, A Meeting In The Ladies Room, Staying Married: A Guide For African American Couples and Talking Drums: An African American Quote Collection. |
| Mary Jo Cartledgehayes: Freelance writer. Author of Grace: A Memoir and To Love Delilah; Founding director of the Mentoring Program. |
| Diana Hume George: Author of The Lonely Other: A Woman Watching America, she writes about gender, race, travel and contemplative practices. Teaches in the Creative Nonfiction MFA program at Goucher College and at the Writer’s Center in Chatauqua. |
| Judith Kitchen: Author of two creative nonfiction books, editor of the creative nonfiction anthologies In Short and In Brief, poetry reviewer for The Georgia Review. |
| Dinty Moore: Author of The Accidental Buddhist, professor of creative nonfiction, and editor of Brevity.com. |
| Irene Prokop: Freelance writer, editor and publishing consultant. Former Editor-in-Chief of Jeremy P. Tarcher, a division of Penguin/Putnam, and Senior Editor at Crown/Random House and Perigee Books. Executive Director of Creative Nonfiction Mentoring Program. |
| Mike Rosenwald: Former editor of the Creative NonfictionJournal, staff writer for the Boston Globe. |
| Rebecca Skloot: Award winning freelance science and medical writer, contributing editor of Popular Science. |
| Kathleen Tarr: Freelance writer, former instructor of nonfiction at the University of Pittsburgh. Her work has appeared in America Magazine, Creative Nonfiction, Nidus, Anchorage Daily News, Pittsburgh Tribune Review, and various magazines. |
Make an investment in your writing career!
For more information, please contact us with your specific questions.
Email: information[at]creativenonfiction.org
Telephone: 412-688-0304 |
