($50 extra)
Available for In-Person Registration
Email us up to five pages plus a one-page synopsis of a manuscript, completed or in progress. The synopsis should detail your work from beginning to end. The $50 fee covers a 15-minute one-on-one in-person appointment during the conference with a member of the Manuscript Evaluation Team who has read your work before the conference. 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 submissions must be received by July 1, 2023.
Standard Manuscript Format:
- Font: Times Roman, Arial, or Courier, 12 point
- Margins: 1 inch on all sides
- Paragraph indentation: 0.5 inches
- Left justification; one space between sentences
- First page: your name and contact information in the top left corner
- Manuscript evaluation: double-spaced
- Synopsis: single-spaced
Email manuscript to: midwestwriters@yahoo.com [Subject: Manuscript Evaluation, evaluator’s name]
2023 Manuscript Evaluation Team members:
- John Gilstrap – fiction (10)
- Lori Rader-Day – fiction (10)
- Matthew Clemens – fiction (10)
- Barbara Shoup – fiction/young adult (5)
- Michael Martone – nonfiction (5)
- Brent Bill – nonfiction (10)
- Lou Harry – nonfiction/playwriting (10)
- Chadwick Gillenwater – children’s and fiction (10)
- Liz Whiteacre – poetry (10)
The Team Member will determine the day/time of each video/phone conference.