During the month of May, Black Lawrence Press author Leigh Camacho Rourks is on board to critique fiction manuscripts. Leigh Camacho Rourks is a Cuban-American author who lives and works in Central Florida, where she is an Assistant Professor of English and Humanities at Beacon College. She is the recipient of the St. Lawrence Press Award, the Glenna Luschei Prairie Schooner Award, and the Robert Watson Literary Review Prize, and her work has been shortlisted for several other awards. Her fiction, poems, and essays have appeared in a number of journals, including Kenyon Review, Prairie Schooner, RHINO, TriQuarterly, December Magazine, and Greensboro Review.
Leigh is accepting everything from flash fiction to novels for critique. The fees and parameters for each of these categories are as follows:
- Flash Fiction, up to two pages, $25
- Short Stories, up to 20 pages $55
- Chapbooks, up to 40 pages, $225
- Novellas, up to 100 pages, $350
- Short Story Collections, up to 180 pages, $475
- Novels, up to 300 pages $725
All manuscripts should be double spaced and formatted in 12-point font. The deadline to submit work for this consultation program is May 31. Leigh will complete her work and respond to all participants by June 30.