Contact & Consultations


I love hearing from people!  Reach me at goodrich.melissa {at} gmail or find me on twitter or youtube.


Want a writing consultation?  I'm taking on new clients! 

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I love love love working with Melissa Goodrich. She hurls herself into drafts — she
inhabits them, I believe. Melissa hears (and feels) the voice, she feels (and hears) the
pulse, she finds (and hangs out with) its beating heart. Her detailed, constructive feedback
is as artful as it is energizing ... the way her beautiful fiction and poetry are.
— Patrick Foran, @pdforan

Let me suss out the strengths and potential of your story-in-progress, your series of poems, your MFA application, your collection-at-large!  I offer comprehensive letters, manuscript notes, follow-up conversations by email and phone, discussion of revision strategies, suggestions of where to place your work, prompts, building a collection around a central theme, and more.  Short fiction and poems are my jam, and I am especially adept at helping you hone your language and wrangling of the magical and weird. 

 
 
Best gift for a writer? Getting feedback on your most recent work-in-progress! This package includes manuscript notes/marginalia, stylistic editing, and a 1 page letter summary of findings for author’s records.

Best gift for a writer? Getting feedback on your most recent work-in-progress! This package includes manuscript notes/marginalia, stylistic editing, and a 1 page letter summary of findings for author’s records.

Do you have a longer piece or a collection of flash? Get an in-depth workshop on more pages of new work. This package includes manuscript notes/marginalia, stylistic editing, and a 2 page letter summary of findings for author’s records.

Do you have a longer piece or a collection of flash? Get an in-depth workshop on more pages of new work. This package includes manuscript notes/marginalia, stylistic editing, and a 2 page letter summary of findings for author’s records.

 
 

I’m happy to take on full-length manuscripts and special projects as well. Reach out with what you have in mind, and I can give you some options!  I work at an hourly rate or by project.