Upcoming Classes / Individual Consultation
Individual Writing Consultation

I have a craft-focused approach to writing. While I am interested in helping you develop the process skills that will enable you to get to the deep subject of your writing, I begin with a practical and straightforward elements-based critique of your work.

Individual sessions will focus on your strengths as a writer and might include custom exercises, directed reading and writing and suggestions to keep you going.

I charge $35-40/hour for these services. We can set up a specific series of deadlines and conversation times, or you might prepay for a certain amount of time that you can "spend" on your ongoing writing concerns as you see fit, within a set time period.

 

Manuscript Critique

Approximate costs for close reading and substantive critique for a 60-page manuscript is $350 (see rates below). Custom contracts are also available for smaller projects or particular services, arranged according to your needs.

Rates/Available Services:

  1. Groups of poems (10-15 pages), once or as an ongoing mentoring project, builidng up to a book: $110
  2. Chapbook manuscript refinement, editing, arrangement: $200 for (18-32 pages)
  3. Full length book; arrangement only: $200
  4. Full length book; arrangement and line editing: $350 (for 45-82 pages)

Free estimates based on sample poems or book manuscript. Please contact me at: julietpatterson@earthlink.net

Juliet Patterson is a gifted teacher. She has been able to bring out the essence of my work, nurture my development as a poet, supply me with an intellectual framework and motivate me to keep writing. She has a unique ability to see into the work, make interventions, and never impose herself on the writer. She is unfailingly kind and unflinchingly challenging.
—E. M Sanders

I have worked with Juliet Patterson in a formal, academic setting and in a less structured, independent context. In both situations, Juliet excels as a guide and mentor. I can attest to her abilities as thinker, poet, writer, editor, and teacher. As a long time professional educator myself, I’ve come to recognize engaging, productive, learner-centered instruction when I experience it. Juliet has helped me grow and develop in ways I can only describe in a poem. I count myself charmed by the universe to work with her.
—Christopher Title, English Instructor/The Art Institutes International Minnesota

Juliet possesses tremendous technical skill, is well read and has always provided me with challenging ideas and comments in regard to my own work. I highly recommend her as a teacher.
—Niki Neems, Iowa City, Iowa