Prose Manuscript Consultation with Ru Freeman
Prose Manuscript Consultation with Ru Freeman
Short stories, Personal Essays, Memoir
You: Are not mainstream in your outlook. Your vision is wide, and you are moved to write a work that has deep resonance for your community, your environment, your country, your world. Your story could be intimate and personal or complex and global or all these things. Line-by-line editing and a letter with detailed editorial notes on your project. I have taught for decades in the US (across the country and at a range of institutions including Columbia University and CCNY) and abroad, and published collections of stories, essays, and novels. I have also published poetry and worked as a freelance journalist. I meet writers where they are, with regard for who they are as people, what has moved them to write, and with a view to helping them go further. I help writers to lean into the emotional truths that underlie their writing, to draw on their strengths, and to develop under-utilizedaspects of their repertoire.
Price levels:
1 Detailed editorial feedback letter including line edits. $200 for the first 20 pages (12 pt. Times, double-spaced, 1-inch margins) and $4 for every page after that.
2 Detailed editorial feedback letter but no line-edits. $150 for the first 20 pages (format as above), $3 each additional page.
3. Full manuscript consultation available by request. As a veteran in the literary world, I have an extensive network of contacts across the media and publishing industries. I routinely connect my students to industry professionals when I feel their projects are ready. Please provide a work sample of up to 15 pages for review to evaluate fit. The fee for a complete manuscript review and 2 feedback sessions (1 hour each) is $1,200 for projects up to 60k words and $1,500 for those up to 90k words.
Ru Freeman is a Sri Lankan and American writer, poet, and activist whose work appears internationally in English and in translation. She is the author of the short-story collection, Sleeping Alone (2022), and the forthcoming essay collection, Bon Courage (2023) and the novels A Disobedient Girl (2009) and On Sal Mal Lane (2013), a New York Times Editor's Choice Book. She is the editor of the anthology, Extraordinary Rendition: American Writers on Palestine (2015) and co-editor of Indivisible: Global Leaders on Shared Security (2018). She writes for the UK Guardian, the New York Times, and the Boston Globe. She is a winner of the Mariella Gable Award for Fiction, and the JH Kafka Prize for Fiction by an American Woman. She teaches creative writing in the US and abroad.
