Jessica Cole
Jessica Cole has her MFA from UC Davis and wrote a novel for her PhD in English from the University of Tennessee. After years teaching at the college level, Jessica facilitates workshops through Writespace and runs coaching groups—pulling together twenty years of writing, editing, and everything in between. In 2018, she and two friends co-founded Bloomsday Literary, an independent, nonprofit press focusing on stories from historically underrepresented voices, as well as a podcast, F***ing Shakespeare. Currently in Boston, she loves hiking with her adorable son and regularly updates her spreadsheet of foreign film (romcoms and light family sagas).
Jessica's Editing Style
Specialty Genres: Generative writing, combining fragments into one or more encompassing projects, writing coaching, developmental and line editing, copywriting, hybrid memoir, literary and genre (and combos!) prose, ghostwriting, novel writing, short stories (individual stories and putting a collection together); poetry (individual poems, titles, putting a chapbook or collection together), blog/content writing, specialized knowledge (I have edited and copywritten a architectural book, though I don’t have a degree architecture, etc.); publishing coaching (from the experience of a co-founder/editor of an independent press); coaching and putting together applications for MFA (low residence and full-time) and PhD in English/Creative Writing programs
Young Writers: No
I truly enjoy working with writing at every stage of the process. As an Amherst Writers & Artists certified facilitator, I find simply setting a timer and using a prompts creates mini but mighty creative incubators. So much can be accomplished in even a few minutes of focused writing a day! By encouraging short bursts of writing that can be carved out from even the busiest lives, beauty (and pages) accumulate. Helping writers to see the music in what they’ve already written - as well as developing intuition around the ways fragments fit together - is a genuine thrill. I can home in on details of a haiku, come up with an array of titles for flash fiction, and sequence the essays in a collections with equal joy. Whether you’re wanting to author a hybrid memoir, poetry/short story collection, or a novel, I’m in. I’m a writer and I know the value of close reading and listening. Pointing out the strengths of a piece, gleaned by details in the text first comes naturally to me. So does adhering to the writer’s vision while offering insightful solutions for consideration and experimentation. I think we can laugh while making meaningful art!
Young Writers: No
I truly enjoy working with writing at every stage of the process. As an Amherst Writers & Artists certified facilitator, I find simply setting a timer and using a prompts creates mini but mighty creative incubators. So much can be accomplished in even a few minutes of focused writing a day! By encouraging short bursts of writing that can be carved out from even the busiest lives, beauty (and pages) accumulate. Helping writers to see the music in what they’ve already written - as well as developing intuition around the ways fragments fit together - is a genuine thrill. I can home in on details of a haiku, come up with an array of titles for flash fiction, and sequence the essays in a collections with equal joy. Whether you’re wanting to author a hybrid memoir, poetry/short story collection, or a novel, I’m in. I’m a writer and I know the value of close reading and listening. Pointing out the strengths of a piece, gleaned by details in the text first comes naturally to me. So does adhering to the writer’s vision while offering insightful solutions for consideration and experimentation. I think we can laugh while making meaningful art!
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