Bonus Auction Item 2: Three Chapter MG Manuscript Critique by Laura Shovan

About this item: A first three chapter critique of your middle grade manuscript.

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Laura Shovan

Laura Shovan was first published in second grade, when her short story “Snow Flurry” appeared in the PTA newsletter. After graduating from NYU’s Dramatic Writing Program, she taught high school, worked as a freelance journalist, and is now an educational consultant for teens with learning differences.

Laura is poetry editor for the literary journal Little Patuxent Review. Her chapbook, Mountain, Log, Salt and Stone, won the inaugural Harriss Poetry Prize. She edited the Maryland Writers’ Association anthology Life in Me Like Grass on Fire: Love Poems and co-edited Voices Fly: An Anthology of Exercises and Poems from the Maryland State Arts Council Artists-in-Residence Program, for which she teaches.

Laura is a Rita Dove Poetry Award finalist and won a Gettysburg Review Conference for Writers scholarship. The Last Fifth Grade of Emerson Elementary, her novel-in-verse for children, will be published by Wendy Lamb Books/Random House in 2016.

STARTING BID: $10

TURNAROUND TIME allow two weeks for query critiques + 1st chapters, four weeks for partials, and six weeks for full critiques. Donors will discuss turnaround times with winners. All winning bids are guaranteed. Should some unforeseen event happen, money will be returned to winner or the winner may choose to have Brenda Drake provide the critique.

9 Comments

Kirk · July 14, 2015 at 3:21 pm

$10

Lara Cummings · July 14, 2015 at 3:52 pm

$20 🙂

EG Moore · July 14, 2015 at 5:34 pm

$25

Kate · July 14, 2015 at 6:38 pm

$50

Heather Capps · July 17, 2015 at 12:17 pm

$55

EG Moore · July 17, 2015 at 12:25 pm

$57

Heather Capps · July 19, 2015 at 11:46 am

$60

Brenda Drake · July 20, 2015 at 1:00 pm

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