[Reader-list] Virtual Mentoring Program from The Patchwork Collective for Writers of Color

[Chintan Girish Modi]

>From http://www.olugbemisola.com/patchwork-collective-virtual-mentors/

 Patchwork Collective Virtual Mentors

The *Patchwork Collective for Writers of Color* is accepting applications
for its Virtual Mentoring Program! If you are a writer of children’s
literature looking to improve your craft and get a better understanding of
the children’s publishing industry, read on.

Participants will be invited to join an online group and receive
personalized advice from mentors on manuscripts and technique (no more than
one critique of 10 pages of a long-form work, or 1 PB over the 8 week
period), industry- and craft-related information (books, conferences,
helpful organizations, Web sites, etc.), and more. Mentors will not be
offering referrals to any agents or editors. *If you are a writer of color
in the “intermediate” stage of your pursuit of a career in children’s
literature, this is an opportunity for one-on-one online communication with
a published children’s book author (PB-YA). *

Mentors include authors Kelly Starlings-Lyons, Y.S. Lee, N.H. Senzai, Ebony
Joy Wilkins, Jerry Craft, Christina Diaz Gonzalez, Neesha Meminger,
Christine Taylor-Butler, Jennifer Cervantes, Crystal Allen, and Rachel Renee
Russell. They are generously donating their time and expertise to this
project, and I am extremely grateful.

*If you are a writer of color 18 or over interested in this opportunity,
please send* 1) a short (one paragraph) biographical sketch of your
work/writing career so far; include the URL of your Web site if you have one
2) the classes, groups, conferences or other resources you’ve been involved
with, etc. and 3) a *one-page* writing sample (for mentor matching purposes,
not to be evaluated) to olugbemisola at olugbemisola.com. This is for writers
of CHILDREN’S LITERATURE ONLY, defined as picture book (PB)-young adult
(YA).

PLEASE PASTE EVERYTHING INTO THE BODY OF YOUR EMAIL TO
olugbemisola at olugbemisola.com, with PATCHWORK COLLECTIVE MENTOR PROGRAM
APPLICATION in the subject line. *Submissions that do not adhere to these
guidelines will be discarded. There are at least 10 spots available, and
matching will be first-come first-served, according to genre. The Spring
2011 submission process is open from Feb 1-Feb 4.*


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*(Source:
http://blog.prathambooks.org/2011/02/virtual-mentoring-program-from.html)
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