Fictionista Workshop Writing Collectives

Thank you for your interest in Fictionista Workshop’s Writing Collective. The admissions are now open to apply to the collective. You can find the application here: http://www.fictionistaworkshop.com/collective-application-form/

The Collective groups are designed to provide authors with feedback from a support group of their peers, something many authors do not have. At Fictionista, we believe this can best be done in small groups of three or four authors selected according to writing experience and/or genre.

Our hope is that everyone involved will gain valuable knowledge, edits and feedback on their writing. We will assign a moderator to each group to help facilitate discussion, provide resources, and offer feedback. A critique participant may be added to some groups to give additional feedback.

Every week the authors will participate in a Skype call to discuss each other’s work. The moderator will help facilitate discussion and offer valuable resources to each writer according to their individual needs. Our hope is that by keeping the groups small, everyone involved will receive detailed and valuable edits and feedback on their writing in a relaxed setting.

How it works:

·         Each author will need to submit their application here: http://www.fictionistaworkshop.com/collective-application-form/ and attach the first 5000 words of their manuscript at the bottom of the application in .doc format. Manuscripts must be at least half way completed. Please note that not all submissions will be accepted.

·         Authors will be grouped by experience and genre, and an additional critique participant may be added to provide extra feedback.

·         After the writing groups are chosen, a moderator will be assigned to each group. The moderator will then schedule a weekly Skype meeting for a total of 12 weeks.

·         Each author is responsible for posting a weekly selection (there is usually a minimum word count for each week) in a group Dropbox file. The authors will then read, edit, analyze and critique each other’s work and provide helpful feedback to everyone in their group.

·         At the scheduled Skype meeting, each author will discuss what they have written and will offer helpful comments on what they read from fellow group members. The group’s moderator will guide all discussion and critique.

*We regret that not all applications can be accepted due to staffing and other administrative considerations.