​We’re launching a new event series, friends: Live Feedback Clinics, where professional editors and writers will offer honest, constructive feedback on real submissions by YOU!

​Each clinic will focus on a specific type of writing (fiction, nonfiction, poetry stories, etc.) The goal is to show what it takes to move a piece from promising draft to something that stands out in a submissions queue, and gets a higher chance of publication!

​The first Live Feedback Clinic will center on on short stories, in particular the opening pages of the short story (and openings are important for every single type of writing out there)! What an editor sees (or doesn’t) in those first two pages often determines whether they keep reading.

​Paid subscribers can submit the first 2 pages of a short story to be considered (cap: 50 submissions). Janelle will choose 3 entries to read aloud and give live feedback on — covering voice, clarity, momentum, and how the opening sets up (or undercuts) the full piece.

​Whether or not your story is selected, you’ll come away with a sharper sense of what makes an opening work — and how that carries through the entire story.

​Both free and paid subscribers can attend the live event for free! Submissions and recording access are exclusive to paid subscribers.

​Instructor Bio:

​​Janelle Drumwright has been a teacher at The Writers Studio since 2012 and for the past 3 years has been teaching writers how to submit their work to lit mags. Her work has appeared in Moon City Review, Necessary Fiction, and Naugatuck River Review, among others. She was the Production Editor and a contest reader at Carve Magazine for five years and is currently a reader at The Masters Review. She holds a bachelor’s degree in journalism from the University of Arizona and a certificate in narrative medicine from Columbia University.