Take your writing from idea to draft to polished manuscript.
My clients come from all walks of life. They’re unpublished novices, professional writers, small-business owners, university professors, full-time family caregivers. I’m proud that I’ve helped them draft book proposals, secure agents and multi-book deals, and place work in publications such as Longreads, Salmagundi, and LitHub. And find joy and support in the craft of writing.
Complement or substitute for the MFA with immersive and intensive creative workshops, individual manuscript consultations, editorial services, and coaching.
I’m Elise Levine, an award-winning fiction and nonfiction writer with committed, high-quality teaching experience.
Whether your passion is fiction or nonfiction, I can help you write your best work.
I fully credit Elise with helping me take my writing up a notch (or two or three) so that, after workshopping three pieces with her, I was able to place two of them in respected journals and a third won an honorable mention in a Glimmer Train contest. I also worked with her privately to consult on my first novel and once I sent it out to agents, I immediately landed a reputable agent to represent it. Elise saw, in all of my work, the nuances, room for expansion, what was clear and what wasn’t, and guided my rewrite and edits in a way that allowed me to make my work shine. Working with Elise was the best investment in my writing that I could have made. – Shawn Nocher, author of the forthcoming novel A Hand to Hold in Deep Water
Elise’s insightful and humanistic approach to writing made me a better writer. Under her instruction and at her specific prompts, I wrote several stories that would eventually lead to book contracts and accolades. Stories that literally would not exist without her careful direction. She is the genuine article and any writer she encounters is lucky for her having touched their writing in any capacity. I cannot recommend nor laud her enough. – Philip Dean Walker, author of the story collections At Danceteria and Other Stories, and Read by Strangers
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