Mentoring
Whether you are an aspiring or a seasoned writer, your manuscript deserves the highest level of care and expertise. I offer tailored services to help you elevate your work from draft to publishable quality.
Poetry Mentoring Services
Mentorship is more holistic and developmental than editing.
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What it includes:
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Personalized feedback on poems and themes
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Guidance on poetic form, voice, and tone
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Help with manuscript structure and sequencing
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Advice on submissions, publishing, and career development
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Regular 1:1 sessions or written critiques
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Ideal for:
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Emerging poets building a collection
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Experienced poets needing a sounding board or new direction
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Poetry Manuscript Editing Services
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What it includes:
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Developmental editing: overall flow, organization, style consistency
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Line editing: clarity, tone, word choice, imagery
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Thematic feedback: cohesion across poems, emotional resonance
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Comments in margin, track changes, and editorial letters
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Ideal for:
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Manuscripts being prepared for contests, publishers, or pamphlets
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Poetry Proofreading Services
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What it includes:
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Grammar, punctuation, and spelling correction
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Formatting consistency
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Final polish before submission or publication
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Ideal for:
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Manuscripts ready for publication or contest submissions​​
French Proofreading Services
​I am a native French speaker, so I can read and correct French manuscripts or the French sections of your manuscript.
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Testimonials from former mentees
"Julie is not only an excellent tutor but a knowledgeable mentor and editor as well. Julie's prompt feedback has helped me to gain insight into myself as poet and importantly has helped to me to develop my unique poetic voice with confidence. Julie's engaging and thorough feedback has helped to inform my poetry writing and direct me towards using a more authentic voice. I thoroughly recommend her services!"
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Manjot Dhaliwal, writer, teacher and PhD researcher
''I had the chance to take part in a few poetry courses with Julie as a teacher. Her teaching and how she holds space in her classes and workshops is what brings me back. Mastering the English language so well, and having the knowledge of other languages, especially French (native), I believe she offers both conventional and fresh out of the box responses which call one to contemplate different angles of one's own writing and that of others. I appreciated her honest feedback, her passion, and openness to different styles and forms. I highly recommend Julie as a teacher.''
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Brooke Sharkey, musician, composer and songwriter
