Darby Price is the author of All the Lands We Inherit,a lyric memoir forthcoming in June 2025 (Black Lawrence Press). She earned her BA at Florida State University and her MFA at George Mason University, where she was a Heritage Fellow and the Poetry Editor for Phoebe. Her work has appeared in No Contact, Beloit Poetry Journal, RHINO, Redivider, and Zócalo Public Square, among others. She has taught literature, creative writing, and rhetoric to students from K-12 through college, and has developed curriculum in a range of genres for PEN America, UC Irvine, and WriteGirl Los Angeles. Darby serves as a Continuing Lecturer at UC Irvine and makes her home in Long Beach, CA.
Darby is accepting everything from short pieces (up to 2 pages) to full-length manuscripts (up to 200 pages). The fees and parameters for each of these categories is as follows:
- Short pieces, up to 2 pages in length, $25
- Folios, up to 7 pages in length, $55
- Extended pieces/chapbooks, up to 40 pages in length, $275
- Short manuscripts, up to 90 pages in length, $425
- Long manuscripts, up to 200 pages in length, $625
Darby will provide detailed comments on your manuscript as well as a cover letter. After receiving these files, participants who submit chapbooks and manuscripts may also book phone/video conferences with Darby at no additional charge.
All manuscripts should be double-spaced and formatted in 12-point font. The deadline to submit work for this consultation program is November 30. Darby will complete her work and respond to all participants by December 31.