Auction Spotlight: Work With MR Editors on Your Manuscript
In case you missed it: our annual Silent Auction is happening now! Every day, we’ll be spotlighting one of our offerings in detail. Today’s spotlight is on our editors:
Nathan McClain (Poetry): up to 15 pages, for 3 hours total
McClain is the author of Scale (Four Way Books, 2017) and Previously Owned (Four Way Books, 2022), a recipient of fellowships from The Frost Place, Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference, and a graduate of the M.F.A. Program for Writers at Warren Wilson. A Cave Canem fellow, his poems and prose have recently appeared or are forthcoming in Poetry Northwest, Green Mountains Review, Zocalo Public Square, The Critical Flame, and On The Seawall, among others. He teaches at Hampshire College and serves as Poetry Editor for The Massachusetts Review.
Shailja Patel (Nonfiction): up to 7,000 words, for 3 hours total
Patel is the author of Migritude and is the Public Affairs editor at The Massachusetts Review. Writers who have done consultations with her say:
“How can I ever thank you for helping me to put my heart into intelligible words?”
—Susan Muaddi Darraj
“It is very rare these days to have the kind of sympathetic yet challenging editorial attention that not only refines but expands the work. It’s one thing to be “accepted” and quite another to experience true editorial accompaniment in the effort to more fully realize the piece. You’ve given me that, and it’s amazing.”
—Jan Clausen
“Your brilliant, thoughtful, and caring work gave me the advice and confidence to move forward, not just in this manuscript, but towards other projects!”
—Mai-Linh Hong
Jemimah Wei (Fiction): up to 30 pages
Wei is a 2025 National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honouree, a 2022-4 Stegner Fellow at Stanford University, a 2020 Felipe P. De Alba Fellow at Columbia University, and a Francine Ringold Award for New Writers honouree. Her fiction has won the William Van Dyke Short Story Prize and been published in Narrative, Guernica, and Joyland, amongst others. She has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize, recognized by the Best of the Net anthologies, and received scholarships from Singapore’s National Arts Council, Bread Loaf Writers Conference, Sewanee Writers Conference, and Columbia University, where she earned her MFA. She is currently a Senior Prose Editor at The Massachusetts Review.
Each of these editors is offering a one-on-one manuscript consultation within their respective genres. These consultations will be over Zoom, on a date agreed upon between you and your editor.
If you or someone you know is interested in working with these editors, make a bid today!
