FROM JUDY HOGAN
FOUNDING
EDITOR, CAROLINA WREN PRESS, 1976-90
Offering individual
consultation, editing, and critiquing for anyone interested
in
learning to write better and/or publish work
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What kinds of help may be requested?
1. Detailed critique and copy
editing. $2.50/page. $40
minimum. To MLA Style book standards.
2. Overall structural and
technical advice on the manuscript.
Examples: how the point of view might be changed, scenes rearranged,
characters better developed. $10 in addition to expenses of $2.50/page as
outlined in #1 above. Free after $100.
3. Marketing advice. Is the manuscript ready to publish, how and
where to get work published? Many
writers need an experienced editor’s feedback.
Specific information appropriate to the manuscript about small and large
publishers, magazines, agents, and other resources for writers. $10 for whole
manuscript in addition to the $2.50/page as outlined in #1 above. Free after $100.
TO SUBMIT MATERIAL: Send any kind of writing, double-spaced, in
12-14 point type, with one inch margins.
Estimate 300 words per page.
Space is needed for editing comments.
Part of a page counts as one page.
Send an SASE and a check or money order (minimum is $40) for the work being requested to: Ms. Judy Hogan: PO Box 253, Moncure, N.C.
27559-0253. Ms. Hogan will deposit
the check, write you a letter about your material and mail her response when
the check has cleared. First come, first
served. You will be notified of any
significant delay. Writers in the
Triangle area or those willing to travel may request a one-hour appointment in
lieu of a detailed letter on the manuscript.
Who is Judy Hogan? Judson Jerome, who wrote a regular poetry column for
many years for Writer’s Digest
magazine, called Judy Hogan “one of the most experienced editor-publishers in
the small press field,” and strongly recommended her consultation-by-mail
service. Ms. Hogan has 30 years of
editing experience in all genres and was Co-Editor of Hyperion Poetry Journal (1969-81) and Editor-in Chief of Carolina
Wren Press (1976-90). She has published
and helped launch on their literary careers hundreds of new writers of all
ages, men/women, black/white, with varying educational backgrounds. As Carolina Wren Press editor, she saw 34
books into print, 13 of which were picked to be part of National Endowment for
the Arts “New American Writing” displays featured at international book fairs
in Frankfurt, Madrid, Barcelona, and Oslo.
She has taught classes for writers and provided editorial consultations
since 1974. National library magazines (Library Journal, Booklist, Choice) have
given positive reviews to the following Carolina Wren Press fiction books: Rainbow Roun Mah Shoulder by Linda
Beatrice Brown, Bombs by Randee
Russell, Brinktown by Sharon Ramirez,
and Brother’s Keeper, Sister’s Child
by Margaret Stephens. Ms. Hogan has
published five volumes of her own poetry, edited five anthologies, and
published a non-fiction book (Watering
the Roots in a Democracy: A Manual on How to Combine Literature and Writing in
the Public Library), the only book of its kind in print. In 2003 one of the early Carolina Wren
authors, Jaki Shelton Green, won the prestigious North Carolina Award for her
poetry and service to literature.
Who are the writers Judy Hogan has helped launch?
Carolina
Wren author Linda Beatrice Brown’s Rainbow
Roun Mah Shoulder was reissued by Ballantine Books (Random House) in a mass
market paperback. Linda’s second novel, Crossing Over Jordan, with a re-issue of
Rainbow, was also published by Ballantine.
Carolina
Wren author Sharlene Baker had her first novel, Finding Signs, published by Knopf in 1990. A paperback edition appeared, and a
screenplay has been written.
Carolina
Wren author Jaki Shelton Green’s Dead on
Arrival was picked for display at the Frankfurt International
Bookfair. Her poems have been published
in Essence and Ms magazines. Jaki, a new
poet in 1972, has been a featured poet and speaker at many conferences and
public meetings in N.C. and nationally since then. Carolina Wren has put out a new edition of Dead on Arrival and a new collection, Conjure Blues. Jaki also won the N.C. Award, the state’s
highest award in Literature, in 2003, and her poetry chapbook Singing a Tree
Into Dance appeared from Carolina Wren the same year.
What do writers say about the help they received from Judy Hogan?
“Your
editorial comments and suggestions have been quite helpful–invaluable, in
fact... You’re like a friendly... person
I might stop to ask for directions, if I were traveling in unknown territory
and became lost.”–New fiction writer
“I
have felt nurtured and respected for my efforts to learn. Even when we disagreed, I felt that you had
considered my point of view and simply had a different opinion. At no time did I feel ‘wrong.’ Nor did I feel coddled... You took seriously
my feelings, my words, and my effort.
You tried to understand. Never
have I had such a gift.” –New poet
“Thank
you for ... all the work you did with my poems.
You have encouraged me greatly. I
feel so much more confident because of your letter.” –New poet
“Part
of your advice...was to stop ‘backing away from the pain.’ I did as you suggested, and the result has
been some very powerful stuff. It has
also made things happen... Before the
book was done, I had an agent... Your advice was more important than I can tell
you–in fact, the agent’s only criticisms mirrored your own. Thank you for the time and care you took with
my work... You have given me what I
needed most: permission to write.” –New
fiction writer
“Judy
Hogan has helped thousands of writers!”–Daphne Athas, author of Entering Ephesus and Cora, Creative Writing Instructor at the
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and Cookie Teer, former owner of
Southern Sisters Bookstore, Durham, N.C.
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Judy
Hogan
PO
Box 253
Moncure, N.C. 27559-0253
919-545-9932
web:
http://judyhogan.home.mindspring.com
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Contact Judy: judyhogan@mindspring.com
Updated: December 25, 2007