EJ Colen is a PNW-based educator, writer, and editor interested in long-form poetry, the lyric essay, literary and visual collage, and research-based approaches to storytelling and memoir. She is the author of What Weaponry, a novel in prose poems, poetry collections Money for Sunsets (Lambda Literary Award and Audre Lorde Award finalist in 2011) and Waiting Up for the End of the World: Conspiracies, flash fiction collection Dear Mother Monster, Dear Daughter Mistake, long poem / lyric essay hybrid The Green Condition, and fiction collaboration True Ash. With more than two decades of social justice activism, EJ remains committed to centering marginalized voices in all the work that she does. Nonfiction editor at Tupelo Press and freelance editor/manuscript consultant, she teaches in the English and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Departments at Western Washington University.
EJ will provide detailed comments on your manuscript as well as a cover letter. After receiving these files, participants who submit chapbooks and full-length manuscripts may also book phone/video conferences with EJ at no additional charge.
EJ is accepting everything from flash fiction to novels. The fees and parameters for each of these categories is as follows:
- Flash fiction, up to 2 pages in length, $25
- Short stories, up to 20 pages in length, $55
- Chapbooks, up to 40 pages in length, $275
- Novellas, up to 100 pages in length, $425
- Short story collections, up to 180 pages in length, $550
- Novels, up to 300 pages in length, $795
All manuscripts should be double spaced and formatted in 12-point font.
The deadline to submit work for this consultation program is May 31. EJ will complete her work and respond to all participants by June 30.
