Editorial feedback on a short work
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Garner robust insight
In short work, as in poetry, every word takes on additional significance, plays a crucial role. From imagery and theme to the cadence of sentences — it’s all highlighted. And it all dovetails. Which means that editorial feedback on short work is particularly incisive and wholistic.
Perhaps the concision and intensity of short work is your forté. Perhaps you’re working on your skills with shorter work. Either way, professional feedback can help you in your journey to greater mastery of style and form.
Note that this is feedback on complete pieces. Not excerpted passages.
FLASH NONFICTION / CNF
Up to 500 words, $50
500 to 1,000 words, $100
1,000 to 1,500 words, $150
Essay / CNF
1,000 to 1,500 words, $150
1,500 to 2,000 words, $200
2,000 to 3,000 words, $250
3,000 to 4,000 words, $300
4,000 to 5,000 words, $400
Flash fiction
Typically, $150
Short story
1,500 to 5,000 words, typically between $200 and $400
5,000 to 10,000 words, typically between $400 and $800
What you get
An editorial letter that discusses where the piece really sings, and where it doesn’t, with suggestions for improvement
Where the issues under discussion lend itself to this, your work back with selected highlights and comments
“The first sentence can’t be written until the final sentence is written.”