For an additional $50 fee, you can receive feedback on your work by a member of our Manuscript Evaluation Team!*

The $50 fee covers a 15-minute appointment with a member of the Manuscript Evaluation Team who has read your work before the appointment. Because of time constraints, each member of the Manuscript Evaluation Team will evaluate a limited number of manuscripts. Manuscripts will be accepted on a “first-come” basis and manuscript evaluation materials must be received by July 1, 2025.

Your selected evaluator will look at up to five pages plus a one-page synopsis of a manuscript, completed or in progress.  The Team Member will determine the day/time of each appointment. Schedules will be emailed prior to conference and posted near the Registration Table.

Formatting your materials

• Manuscript submissions–up to five pages–should be typed and double-spaced.
• The synopsis must be single-spaced and should detail your work from beginning to end.
• For all materials, use this format:
  • LEFT CORNER: your name, address, phone, email
  • RIGHT CORNER: Manuscript Evaluator’s name; page number

Submitting your materials

• Send your materials as attachments midwestwritersworkshop@gmail.com
• Title the email “Manuscript Evaluation: Team Member Name”
• Submit all materials must be received by July 1, 2025

Please have your manuscript evaluation materials turned in by July 1, 2025

 

Manuscript Evaluation Team

Jessica Berg, Query Letters

Melissa Fraterrigo, Creative Nonfiction

Thomas Kneeland, Poetry

Robin Lee Lovelace, Fiction (will provide one-on-one appointment via Zoom)

Rebecca McKanna, Fiction

Kay Shanee, Romance/Children’s