How Our Poetry Mentoring Works

You’ll share your poems with your mentor in Wet Ink, the only online platform designed exclusively for writing, where your mentor will provide generous line-by-line comments, holistic overviews, and weekly check-ins, either in Wet Ink, Zoom sessions, or over the phone.

If you’re working on a manuscript, mentors offer both large-scale suggestions—with an eye toward your manuscript's theme, tones, scenes, and characters—as well as line-by-line commentary on poems where there's need for it. You’ll also work together on organization, titles, and cohesion, and your mentor will provide suggestions for where to submit your manuscript when you’re done.

Pricing

Mentorships begin at the hourly rate of $75, which includes a critique of up to three pages of your poetry. From there, each mentor has established their own rate for chapbooks (up to 35 pages) and full-length manuscripts (up to 70 pages) or, if not working on a book, the equivalent number of pages. We use the page as a unit rather than the poem, since poems can be as short as 1-line or epic-length, with a page being the average.

Duration

Chapbook engagements typically last 4-6 weeks.
Full-length manuscript engagements typically last 6-8 weeks.

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