Private Professional Writing Instruction with
Madeleine Beckman

Dead Boyfriends by Madeleine Beckman Linear Arts Books 1998 A poetry collection. Price:$10.00 Shipping: $3.00 Order by Email

Madeleine provides private writing instruction in poetry, fiction and nonfiction writing including

• manuscript analysis
• manuscript editing
• craft development
• writing and revision exercises
• and readings.

She teaches poetry, fiction, and non-fiction. She teaches students how to determine if a poem or short story is working or not. If it's not, she helps them learn on their own to figure out why it's not working rather than giving the manuscript to friends and family members to read and critique. She teaches students how to revise their work. She goes over their craft and ideas with them and assigns exercises for them to do either with her or on their own to strengthen their writing. She also works with them in writing cover letters and preparing manuscripts to send out for publication. She helps students who want to prepare portfolios to send to college or graduate school.

The one-hour sessions are intense. An article in The Village Voice quotes a student as saying, "Working with Madeleine is like a ride around the block in a Mazzaratti." She works privately (one-on-one) with students and their work, either in person, online or on the phone. She works with students of all levels. National and international students are welcome.

Madeleine sometimes puts together readings with her students. For example, she hosted a reading with six students and a well-known guest novelist. This provided the students an opportunity to read in a known New York City venue. Madeleine also suggests books to students to read on their own as a means of strengthening their own writing.

Madeleine Beckman is a poet, fiction writer, journalist and the author of Dead Boyfriends (Linear Arts Books, 1998), a poetry collection.