Mentoring and Manuscript Assessments

I can help you to work through the ‘big picture’ of your poetry, fiction or non-fiction (or genre defying!) manuscript. My assessments are based on carefully understanding your intention and vision for your writing. In conversation, we work to enhance your work’s art and communicative power at the level of word, line, page, and whole work. My tailored assessments can help you to step back from your Manuscript, to massage its language, cohere its strands and themes, and gain clarity about how to make your work publication-ready. Overall, you will feel supported and energised to prepare your work for submission.

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‘Working with Nadia, as she offered a manuscript assessment of a hybrid poetry/creative nonfiction collection in development, has been one of the most… fulfilling experiences of my writing life. Nadia offered me a detailed and constructive critique of my work, responding both to questions I had in the writing, and going beyond that to highlight things which arose for her, and which I had not previously considered. She… engaged with the manuscript on its own terms, and was wonderfully considerate of my emotional investment in the work. Best of all, she has left me feeling energised and excited to continue working on my MS. I cannot recommend her highly enough – her input has been incredibly valuable and deeply sustaining.’

- Dr. Catherine Noske, Author and Editor.

‘Nadia’s guidance has been instrumental in developing my appreciation of questions from answers in creative praxis. As she put it, her feedback is ‘suggestive, not prescriptive’—marked by challenging phrases like ‘I wonder if …?’ and ‘Or …?’ and ‘Can the poem …?’ . [We] discussed the ways of suspending a poem between those monkey bars—latching onto a known answer, then teasing the enigma of a piece out, flirting with all its possibilities.’

- Aditi Arun, Poet and Mentee.