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Conference Critique Service

Wondering how your writing stacks up? Had a few rejections and want to ferret out why? Conference instructors offer a confidential written critique on your pages or poems. Your material will be returned to you at the conference if we receive it by March 7. For anything received past that date we will try our best to return it at the conference, but may need to mail it afterward.

Here's what you may send and the fee:

The first 10 pages of a fiction or creative nonfiction manuscript, double-spaced, one-inch margins, 12-point Times New Roman or Courier, $40.
The first 10 pages of a screenplay in correct screenplay format, $40.
A poem not over a page in length; $10; limited to no more than four poems from one author ($40 total per author).

Send your critique material to Writers' Institute Critiques, 610 Langdon St., Room 621, Madison, WI 53703, or email it as a Word document for PC or a Rich Text File (RTF) to cdesmet@dcs.wisc.edu. Please do NOT send it in a new Vista version of Word. Please convert to an older version or use RTF.

Questions? Please contact coordinator Christine DeSmet, 608-262-3447, or e-mail cdesmet@dcs.wisc.edu.

Please see the schedule for advanced-level group "Critique Workshops."

Department of Liberal Studies & the Arts
610 Langdon Street, Rm. 715.....Madison WI 53703
Phone: 608-263-6320 or .....877-336-7836
Fax: 608-265-2475.....E-mail: liberalarts@dcs.wisc.edu

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