During the month of March, Black Lawrence Press author John Mauk is on board to critique fiction manuscripts.
John Mauk has a PhD in English from Bowling Green State University and a Masters from the University of Toledo. His stories have appeared or been accepted in a range of fine magazines such as Arts & Letters, Salamander, Bull, and New Millennium Writings. He has also contributed essays to online magazines, including Writer’s Digest, Beatrice.com, Three Guys One Book, The Portland Book Review, and Rumpus. His first short collection, The Rest of Us, won Michigan Writer’s Cooperative Press chapbook contest. His first full collection, Field Notes for the Earthbound, is available on Black Lawrence Press. He currently hosts Prose from the Underground, a YouTube video series for working writers.
John 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 2 pages in length, $25
- Short stories, up to 20 pages in length, $55
- Chapbooks, up to 40 pages in length, $225
- Novellas, up to 100 pages in length, $350
- Short story collections, up to 180 pages in length, $475
- Novels, up to 300 pages in length, $725
All manuscripts should be double spaced and formatted in 12-point font.
The deadline to submit work for this consultation program is March 31. John will complete his work and respond to all participants by April 30.