Read, Review, and Strategize Consult Information

The Read, Review, and Strategize Consult (RRS) provides you with the opportunity to work closely one-on-one with an editor or writer chosen specifically with your project in mind.

The process includes you and your consultant working together on a longer portion of your project, such as a complete draft of a manuscript, drafts of chapters, outline notes, or even a synopsis.

How it works: Writers must first register for an Introductory Consult or have taken classes at the Attic Institute before registering for a Read, Review, and Strategize Consult. Next, you get into the details with our editor about what the focus of the consult should be. The Read, Review, and Strategize Consult includes reading your materials, plus a one-hour consult by phone or in person. Your conference might include discussion of ideas and strategies for revision, general narrative and thematic arc, character development, and style — as well as other questions you may have about your writing, including publication leads. For poets, the consult might include discussion of common themes, stylistic concerns, ordering of a manuscript, and publication leads.

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The Attic Experience

"I credit David Biespiel and the poets in the Poets Studio with teaching me not just how to read and write but how to learn to read and write. This last Studio cycle, I achieved my goal to write one good poem, worth sharing for publication. And in July, I was astonished this poem was accepted within 3 hours of my submitting it to only one publisher, San Pedro Poetry Review. Dancing for days."

Kat Hanson

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A Statement of Our Values

The Attic Institute of Arts and Letters opposes the legitimation of bigotry, hate, and misinformation. As a studio for writers, we do not tolerate harassment or discrimination of any kind. We embrace and celebrate our shared pursuit of literature and languages as essential to crossing the boundaries of difference. To that end, we seek to maintain a creative environment in which every employee, faculty member, and student feels safe, respected, and comfortable — even while acknowledging that poems, stories, and essays delve into uncomfortable subjects. We accept the workshop as a place to question ourselves and to empathize with complex identities. We understand that to know the world is to write the world. Therefore, we reaffirm our commitment to literary pursuits and shared understanding by affirming diversity and open inquiry.