Writing Today’s Manuscript Critique Sessions

Fiction, Non-fiction, Poetry

As part of the Writing Today outreach program, we are making available to the writers in our community one-on-one manuscript critiquing for 30 minutes per session. You may choose to conduct your critiquing session between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. during the conference or at a time during the Critiquing Sessions listed below. After manuscripts are chosen for critiquing, you will be notified about your appointment. Authors of accepted manuscripts will meet with Daniel Anderson (poetry), Glenny Brock (nonfiction), or Stacy Tintocalis (fiction). See bios below.

Submission guidelines:

1. Fiction or nonfiction must be typed, double-spaced, with a limit of 25 pages. Poetry limit is 5 pages or 100 to 125 lines.

2. Send a title page with author’s name, address, telephone numbers (home and work), and e-mail.

3. Session dates for 2008:
   
   
   1. Critique Session I: January 8 to March 10. (Manuscript deadline is Feb. 15, if you are scheduling a session during the conference.
   2. Critique Session II: April 7 to June 30
   3. Critique Session III: September 15 to November 28
      
      
4. Fee is $40 per manuscript. Checks will be returned along with manuscripts not accepted. (Critique fees are separate from registration.)
   
   
5. Make your check payable to Birmingham-Southern College and mail to: Birmingham-Southern College, College Events, 900 Arkadelphia Road, Box 549066, Birmingham, AL 35254.

Daniel Anderson’s poetry has appeared in Poetry, The Kenyon Review, New England Review, The Yale Review, The Hudson Review, Harper’s, The New Republic, The Southern Review, The Sewanee Review, The Best American Poetry, and Southwest Review, among other places. He has published two books of poetry, Drunk in Sunlight (Johns Hopkins University Press) and January Rain (Story Line Press), and edited The Selected Poems of Howard Nemerov (Swallow Press/Ohio University Press). His honors include a Pushcart Prize as well as fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Bogliasco Foundation. He currently teaches in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.

Glenny Brock, a lifelong resident of Birmingham, has written for an unlikely variety of publications, from the online arts journal Sojourner to Varmit Masters magazine. As a freelancer, staff writer, “calendar girl” and now editor, she has worked for Birmingham Weekly since 2000. She earned her B.A. in English from Birmingham-Southern College and her M.F.A. in creative nonfiction from Spalding University in Louisville, Kentucky.

Stacy M. Tintocalis, who holds a Ph.D. in English from the University of Missouri and an M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of Iowa, is an assistant professor of fiction and nonfiction in the Creative Writing Program at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her fiction and creative nonfiction have been published or are forthcoming in The Literary Review, Fiction, Event, Cream City Review, The North Atlantic Review, Kalliope, Clackamas Literary Review, and The Wilshire Review, among others. Her collection of short stories, Honeymoon in Beirut, is currently under consideration. The title story of her collection won both the Mahan Fiction Award and the McKinney Fiction Prize.