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On Friday, August 22, 2008, a select group of poets will bring their completed or in-progress manuscripts to this place -- the Round House lodge in Colrain, Massachusetts, and there, in a uniquely beautiful house with a view of three mountain ranges, they will meet and work with with publishers and editors from Tupelo Press, Graywolf Press, Del Sol Press, and from the Concord Poetry Center and Suffolk University. COLRAIN POETS SPEAK! Conference attendees share thoughts from our first two conferences. Read our PUBLICATION NEWS for our success stories.

The Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conferenceis able to provide the faculty, connections, and method necessary to produce the first poetry conference realistically designed to set poets with a manuscript-in-process on a path towards publication. Poets will also get a look into the poetry publication world and make important contacts as a result. In preparation, poets will work on pre-conference assignments and then in workshops with professionals Joan Houlihan and Fred Marchant to review, arrange, and winnow their collections based on the pre-conference work. In addition to the manuscript preparation workshops and editor consultations, there will be evening poetry readings, an editorial panel Q&A, and after-conference strategy session.

Is This Conference Right For You?

Please review our criteria for who should participate and who should not.

The acquisition editors attending the Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conference represent prestigious poetry presses. Their bios, as well as more information on the sponsors and bios of the workshop leaders can be found here.

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