Virtual Full-length Manuscript Workshop, June 20 – 27, 2026

Slots are available for Naslund-Mann students and alums in a full-length manuscript workshop for prose, offered via Zoom during the virtual summer residency, June 20 – 27.

Manuscripts in fiction, creative nonfiction, middle-grade, and young adult are welcome. The faculty-led workshop is capped at five participants, and all five slots must be filled for the workshop to run. The deadline to sign up is Monday, December 31. 

Participants must have a completed manuscript ready to email to other workshop members by April 1. There is no maximum length; however, the suggested maximum length for first-time authors to query agents is 80,000 to 100,000 words. MG and YA may be shorter.

Before residency begins, workshop participants read the entirety of the other four manuscripts, make marginal notations, and write an overview for each manuscript of at least 3 – 5 double-spaced pages commenting on the work’s strengths and weaknesses.

The introductory workshop focuses on assigned reading by the workshop leader. At subsequent workshop meetings, a full two hours is spent discussing each manuscript as a whole. After a manuscript is discussed, other participants email their annotated copy and 3- to 5-page overview to the author and copy the leader. At the last meeting, all students present revisions of 3 to 5 pages written during the residency after hearing their own manuscript discussed. 

Cost for alums: $1,760. Half is due April 1, and the balance is due June 1. 

Schedule: 10:45 – 11:45 a.m. ET. Sunday, June 21. Introductory workshop meeting.

3:15 – 5:30 p.m. ET. Sunday – Friday, June 21 – 26

Members of the FLMW have access to the entire residency schedule but only workshop sessions are required.

We’ll announce the leader once we know the workshop will take place.

Email Karen Mann at kmann@spalding.edu with questions or to sign up.