During the month of January, Black Lawrence Press author Isaac Pickell is on board to critique poetry manuscripts. Isaac is a biracial poet & PhD candidate in Detroit, where he teaches the writing of poetry and the reading of literature. Isaac received his MFA in Poetry from Miami University, where he served as the Poetry Editor of Oxford Magazine, and he is the founding Editor-in-Chief of The Woodward Review. Isaac is the author of everything saved will be last (Black Lawrence Press, 2021) and the forthcoming collection It’s not over once you figure it out (Black Ocean, 2023). You can find his current poetry and nonfiction in Copper Nickel, Crazyhorse, Denver Quarterly, Passages North, Poetry Daily, and various corners of the internet.
Isaac is accepting everything from single poems to full-length collections. The fees and parameters for each of these categories is as follows:
- Single poems up to 2 pages in length, $25
- Folios of up to 5 pomes, up to 7 pages in length $55
- Chapbooks, up to 40 pages in length, $225
- Full-length manuscripts, up to 80 pages in length, $350
All manuscripts should be formatted in 12-point font.The deadline to submit work for this consultation program is January 31. Isaac will complete his work and respond to all participants by February 28.