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Mentoring: Small Group and Individual
Would you like some focused support, direction and deadlines to help you to develop your writing?
Dialect offers individual and small group mentoring. Individual mentees can determine what they feel is right for them in terms of frequency of sessions and amount of work to be shared for feedback. For small group mentoring, we ask you to commit to a set of three monthly online sessions with a small group of writers for prompts and peer-to-peer support and receive written feedback on your work via email.
Groups and individual sessions are led by JLM Morton and other Dialect tutors such as novelist Melanie Golding and poet Phillip Rush. We can discuss who would best fit your needs.
For individual mentoring, we can offer a one off session on a set of poems / stories / chapters etc or 3 sessions focused on developing your craft over time.
As a mentee, you will also get access to our private Slack account where you can chat with other writers, share info, articles and work in progress through our password protected online sharing space.
Small groups will run with a minimum of 4 and a maximum of 5 writers. We collect names on a rolling basis. When there are enough participants to create a new group, we will begin and there is flexibility for this to take place during the day or evening.
Cost of group mentoring for novelists: £180 per 3 sessions (includes written feedback). It is possible to pay the course fee in three instalments before the start date, on request.
Cost of individual mentoring depends on the number of words / poems for feedback - get in touch for a no obligation quote. As a guideline, expect to pay £7 per poem (up to 30 lines) with written feedback and £30 per 2000 words for prose.
Mentees will also be invited to submit a piece of work for consideration in the annual Dialect anthology of prose, poetry and ephemera.
Email dialectwriters@gmail.com to enquire.
JLM Morton
Dr JLM Morton is a poet, founder of Dialect and an experienced Adult Educator. Juliette’s pamphlets Lake 32 and Sentient are published by Yew Tree Press and her poems have been featured in various publications, including The Rialto, Poetry Birmingham Literary Journal, Ink Sweat & Tears, Places of Poetry, The Sunday Telegraph and on BBC Upload. In 2021-22 Juliette is funded by an Arts Council DYCP grant to work on a collection exploring cloth and colonialism. She has had residencies at the Cotswold Water Park and Stroudwater Textile Trust. In 2022 she is poet in residence at the Corinium Museum, Cirencester.
For more info, see: www.jlmmorton.com