with Allison Dickens
 
This innovative, one-on-one program combines personalized instruction in the art and craft of writing a novel or memoir with meeting goals, sustaining motivation, finding support, publishing, and more. The program provides support for your project, and you as a writer, from a professional developmental editor.

The program lasts eight (8) weeks. Depending on your project and needs, we will schedule when you will submit writing and when you will receive feedback. Typically, mentees submit up to five (5) pages of writing each week and receive feedback within two (2) days along with substantial ideas and resources. Mentoring is suitable for students writing one longer work of fiction.
 
Also included:
 
THREE (3) ZOOM CALLS:
Call #1 (30 minutes during week 1), we will discuss your project and goals.
Call #2 (30 minutes during week 4), review questions or considerations and set/revise goals.
Call #3 (30 minutes during week 8), address remaining questions and set
up next steps.
 
RESOURCES: 
The mentor will suggest exemplar writing, craft pieces, helpful books, authors to follow, and/or other resources.
 
GOAL: 
Approximately 40 pages of new and/or revised work, a hearty understanding of the genre, and a practical introduction to life as a writer.
 
LIMITED TO THREE (3) STUDENTS IN SPRING
 
LEVEL: 
All
 
WHERE: 
ZOOM and via email
 
DURATION: 
Eight (8) weeks
 
ADMISSION: 
Rolling admissions year-round
 
START DATE: 
The program begins during, or shortly after,the first week of the season, with the writer's first submission and the first Zoom call (mutually agreed upon date and time)

END DATE: 
Eight (8) weeks after start date, with the final feedback and last Zoom call
 
Please call (203) 227-3250 or email info@WestportWriters.org for more information. 
 
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Allison H. Dickens was a Senior Editor at the Penguin and Random House Publishing Groups. She co-created the XYZ line of books for twenty-somethings while at Ballantine/Random House, and oversaw the Ballantine Reader's Circle program. She has also worked in magazine publishing and for an independent publisher. Wanting a more family friendly schedule, she left full-time publishing in 2008, becoming a freelance editor and workshop instructor. In 2022, she relocated to London, England, where she continues to work with authors on all aspects of developing their writing.