Jennifer Footman comes from India, spent most of her life in Edinburgh, and came to Canada in 1979 with her three sons. She has had many years experience running creative writing workshops, teaching poetry in schools under the Ontario Poets in Schools programme, and performing her poetry in public. She has been, and continues to be active in many community groups, ranging from the Brampton Writers Guild to the John Howard Society. She has been writing for the last 40 years and has several books of poetry published in the UK and in Canada. Her poetry has been in most Canadian, US and UK literary magazines. Her short fiction has also been widely published. In 1991 she won the Okanagan award for short fiction. Her investigative articles have been published in the Toronto Star, the Globe and Mail, She Magazine, the Toronto Fashion Magazine, Poetry Toronto, Canadian Author, and others.

Services:

• Specialization in poetry and medical material
• Enjoys balancing and selecting items for a manuscript
• Consultations available
• Works with writers of any experience level

Rates: hourly or per page; inquire for estimate

Contact: [email protected]; 905-838-4262

Kate Marshall Flaherty hase been editing poetry manuscripts for over ten years, as an in-house editor for Quattro Books, and also freelance. She has edited poets such as Penn Kemp, Kate Rogers, Donna Langevin, Janine Pittas, Banoo Zan and many others. She has also been a workshop leader and teacher for decades in the craft of writing and editing poetry at St Michael’s College, U of T.

Services:

• Poetry manuscript evaluations
• Poetry manuscript editing
• StillPoint Writing workshops

Rates: inquire for details

Contact: www.katemarshallflaherty.ca; [email protected]

Susan Gillis brings more than two decades of writing, editing, and mentoring experience to her work with writers of all ages and at all stages. She has led workshops and discussion groups for Concordia University, the Quebec Writers’ Federation, John Abbott College, Festival Blue Met Bleu, Los Parronales (Chile), and more, as well as many individual mentorships.

Her four books (Yellow Crane, The Rapids, Volta and Swimming Among the Ruins) and several chapbooks (Obelisk, Twenty Views of the Lachine Rapids) have amassed a solid collection of award nominations and reviews. She has side gigs as a collaborator in the writing collective Yoko’s Dogs (Whisk, Rhinoceros) and the performance group Bon Echo. She talks with poets and writes about poetry and the writing life at Concrete & River, and co-curates (with Mary diMichele) the online micro-poetry journal HALIBUT.

Services:

• From overviews to detailed critiques, services can be shaped to your needs
• Individual and small group feedback
• Creative practice (re)kindling for poets and anyone interested in how poetry can make life mysteriously better

Rates: based on $50/hour. Services and fees vary by manuscript length and the needs of the project, and are determined in consultation. Further details available here.

Contact: [email protected]

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During literary studies at York University and the Naropa Institute, John studied  with Allen Ginsberg, Anne Waldman, William Burroughs, Irving Layton, Miriam Waddington, Eli Mandel, Frank Davey, and others. He worked at Coach Press and has been active as an editor, literary journalist, and community college teacher. He is a member of the Sixth Floor poetry workshop, an advanced group of published poets,  and runs a micropress, for which he edits and designs. His five books of poetry include Mata Hari’s Lost Words (slated for a new edition in 2017) and Time Slip (Guernica Editions). His first mystery novel, Death by Triangulation, appeared in 2015.

Services:

• A full range of services, from general advice on the quality, technique and organization of a poetry collection, to picky details of grammar, punctuation usage, and other copy-editing necessities.
• A variety of levels available, from detailed feedback for a group of poems, or a reading-with-criticism of a whole manuscript.
• Can also work with a manuscript almost ready for publication to help with the proofreading, sequencing and final selection of poems.

Rates:

$100 for reading a feedback on a selection of a dozen poems
$250 for reading-with-criticism of a whole manuscript
Inquire for rates on other services

Contact: [email protected]; website

Concetta is a writer of poetry, fiction and academic articles and have some experience writing for television documentaries. She is currently a sessional professor in the Creative Writing Program at York University. She has had three books published, the most recent being a collection of poetry, walking: non-a-nun’s diary (2013) with DC Books. Prior this collection, her prose poems Interference (1999) and a novella Stained Glass (1997) came out with Guernica Editions. Her work has appeared in Canadian and American journals such as The Malahat Review, Grain, Descant Magazine, and Exile Quarterly, as well as on-line journals such as Lemon Hound and Rusty Toque. Several of her scholarly articles have been published in peer-reviewed journals. She has a PhD from York University (2014).

Services: “I am an editor of creative works of poetry, fiction, cross-genre forms (I write prose-poetry, myself) and experimental writing. I also provide editorial support for project proposals, grant writing and academic or non-fiction projects.  Editorial support can range from providing a one-page review noting strengths, weaknesses and suggestions for the direction to take in revisions of the manuscript, detailed line-by-line revisions of grammar and syntax, or variations thereof. I provide services in a timely fashion by internet and can do face-to-face meetings if that is preferred.”

Contact: [email protected].

D.C. Reid has been published in more than 50 literary magazines in Canada, the United States, the U.K., India and Mexico, with his work having been translated into Spanish, Chinese, and Hindi. He has published seven books of poetry and one novel, with two having been shortlisted for the Dorothy Livesay award, BC’s highest prize for poetry in their respective years. On another side of his life, Reid has gone on to write for more than 50 magazines/newspapers/websites across North America on fishing – gear, fly and Spey – in salt- and fresh-water. His fifth fishing book will be released in 2016. You will see this and many other books on his website: www.dcreid.ca. His most recent award is the national Roderick Haig-Brown Award for environmental writing, 2016.

Services: “I will offer helpful advice on short or book length manuscripts of poetry, prose fiction and non-fiction. In addition, I can offer useful market advice for all three genres. A copy of one of my books is sent with my comments so that the writer can get a feel for the way I write. I can work with any kind of poetry.”

Rates: Inquire for details

Contact: [email protected].

Robin Richardson runs a successful month poetry workshop called The Unsympathetic Poetry Workshops in Toronto. She is the author of two collections of poetry, and is Editor-in-Chief at Minola Review. Her work is forthcoming in POETRY, and has appeared in Tin House, Partisan, The North American Review, and Hazlitt, among others. She holds an MFA in Writing from Sarah Lawrence College. She has been shortlisted for the CBC, Walrus, and Lemon Hound Poetry Prizes. Richardson’s latest collection, Sit How You Want, is forthcoming with Véhicule Press. Poems from the collection have been adapted to song by composer Andrew Staniland for The Brooklyn Art Song Society, and premiered in 2016 in New York.

Services:

• Full manuscript evaluations
• One-on-one tutoring (may include line by line edits, or overall industry discussion and publication advice)

Rates:$1200 manuscript evaluations
$100 per hour tutoring
Some sliding scale pricing available
Special requests can always be accommodated

Contact: sithowyouwant.org; [email protected]

Sandra Ridley is an award-winning writer of four books of poetry: Fallout, Post-Apothecary, The Counting House, and Silvija—a finalist for the 2017 Griffin Poetry Prize. She was nominated for the KM Hunter Artist Award for Mid-Career Writer in 2015. Sandra Ridley has taught poetry as a sessional instructor at Carleton University and has been a writing mentor through Ottawa’s Supportive Housing and Mental Health Services “Footprints to Recovery” program for people living with mental illness • She has facilitated workshops for the City of Ottawa, Ottawa Public Library, the Tree Reading Series, Calgary’s WordFest, and has been a contributor to the BC Learning Networks online program for Writers’ Craft • Sandra has also been an invited speaker to creative writing classes at the University of Ottawa, Carleton, and was a participant in the University of Toronto’s “Influency Salon • She continues to give guidance to writers on a one-on-one basis and offers comprehensive editing and mentoring services through the Poetry Lab. For more information, please see sandraridley.com

Services:

Sandra Ridley offers three packages for editorial consultation on works-in-progress through her Poetry Lab. Each package is designed to further enhance your body of work. Please note that as a full-time writer, Sandra can only collaborate with a few writers each season. Before purchase of any package, please send a query. A sample of your poetry may be requested in order for Sandra to see if she can provide the service and care that you may require.

Rates:

The Test Tube, $150: A close reading service that provides you with detailed editorial feedback and guidance on ten pages of poetry. Emphasis will be placed on word choice, line breaks, and poem layout. You will also receive generative suggestions about how these poems can transform into a large body of work.

The Telescope, $225: This package gives you a detailed overview on a full-length poetry manuscript. You will receive an in-depth reading of your collection, and commentary will focus on content and execution. This service is best suited for those wanting a fresh perspective on a project’s larger picture concerns.

The Microscope, $600: An editorial service for a full-length collection of poetry. Manuscripts longer than 100 pages require extra time. Please note that an extra fee may be required. Your work will receive several in-depth readings, and its strengths and possibilities will be discussed. This package provides you with general suggestions and detailed edits regarding word choice, line breaks, and page and/or manuscript layout—as well as a fresh-eyed perspective on your manuscript’s overall content and structure. We collaborate through three manuscript revisions over the course of three weeks. Independent work is required.

Contact: [email protected], [email protected]

Jacob Scheier is a Governor General’s Award winning poet. He is the author of the full-length poetry collections, More to Keep us Warm (ECW Press, 2007) and Letter From Brooklyn (2013). His poems have been aired on CBC radio and been published in literary journals and anthologies across North America and in the U.K. He was nominated for a National Magazine Award for poetry in 2014. Jacob has taught creative writing at Ryerson’s University School of Continuing Education and Brandon University (Manitoba). He has facilitated creative writing workshop as the writer-in-residence for both the Writer’s Trust of Canada’s Pierre Berton House residency in Dawson City, Yukon and for Algoma University at St. Thomas (Ontario). Jacob is the former co-editor-in-chief of existere, York University’s literary journal, and he has provided poetry manuscript consultations to several emerging poets who have gone on to publish full-length collections.

Services:

Full manuscript evaluations

Rates:

$500 manuscript evaluations (sliding scale based on financial need)

Contact: [email protected]

Naomi Beth Wakan has twenty years’ experience teaching Japanese short-form poetry classes both on and off line. She has written over fifty books including the trilogy, The Way of Haiku, The Way of Tanka, and Poetry That Heals, books that introduce writers to haiku and tanka. She has also written the award winning Haiku – one breath poetry, an American Library Association selection for young people. Her poetry and essays have appeared in many publications including Geist, Room, and Still Point Arts Quarterly. She is noted for being able to encourage the new poet.

Services:

Manuscript consultations and editing – haiku, tanka, short free verse, short essays.

Mentorship  in the areas of haiku and tanka writing.

Rates:

$100 manuscript reading fee for first 10 pages, $1.50 for every page beyond that. This includes brief, but helpful comments on the manuscript.

$40 per session for mentorships (4 sessions introducing the writer to haiku and tanka writing)

Contact Naomi for in-depth critiquing of poetry (haiku, tanka and short free verse)

Contact: [email protected]; 250-247-0014