St. Davids Christian Writers' Conference

Tutorials

You may sign up to work with your own private tutor to discuss, analyze, and troubleshoot your work. The tutor will review your manuscript and meet with you for 30 minutes to discuss it.

These meetings are sched- uled during conference week at mutually convenient times. All tutors are widely published writers with critiquing experience and knowledge of the markets.

Tutorial students agree to pay $35 for each half-hour time slot. They must also submit a manuscript to a tutor by May 21. (See manuscript guidelines below.) Additional students may be accepted during conference week if schedules permit.

Tutorial Guidelines

Nonfiction Articles, Feature Articles, Personal Essays, or Article-length Memoir: Submit one manuscript of up to 1500 words.

Young Adult or Adult Fiction: For a novel, submit a synopsis and the first 20 pages of your book. For a short story, submit a complete manuscript of no more than 10 pages.

Children's Literature:
Submit one article, short story, or picture book, not to exceed 1500 words. Include the cover and query letters you plan to send to publishers. For middle grade fiction and nonfiction books, submit a chapter by chapter outline, proposal and one to two sample chapters.

Poetry: Submit three to five typed poems, for a maximum of five pages. Include any questions or problems you are having with the poems.

Devotional: Submit ten devotions.

Tutors

	Roberta Tucker Brosius--Devotionals Roberta contributed to Barbour’s 365 Day Fun Bible Fact Book, and Barbour’s Heavenly Humor for the Teacher’s Soul. She teaches Bible and English at Watsontown Christian Academy, where she has developed five Bible curricula for high school students. Her devotionals appear frequently in The Secret Place.
	Barbara Crooker--Poetry Barbara has had four poetry books published, including More and Line Dance, and her poems have appeared in multiple magazines and anthologies, including Good Poems for Hard Times (Viking Penguin). A Grammy Awards finalist and Pushcart Prize nomineee, she has had her work read by Garrison Keillor on The Writer's Almanac.
	MaryAnn Diorio--Children's Literature MaryAnn is the author of four books and five book- lets and has had her articles published in many national periodicals, including The Saturday Evening Post and Decision. Dr. Diorio's booklets include Writing Fiction for Children and Writing Nonfiction for Children, and her books include student guides to Hawthorne, Melville, and Twain.
	Audrey Stallsmith--Fiction Audrey is the author of the Thyme Will Tell series of mysteries from WaterBrook Press and The Body They May Kill from Thomas Nelson. Her work has also appeared in periodicals such as Woman's World, Birds & Blooms, and Moody Magazine. She writes articles on plants for her website, Thyme Will Tell, and on apologetics for Inklings of Truth.
	Bobbi Updegraff--Nonfiction Feature Stories and Fiction (Mystery or Historical) Bobbi is the author of six Church Choir Mysteries with Guideposts Books, including The Baffling Be- quest and Puzzle in Patchwork. She writes regularly for Presbyterian Disaster Assistance Mission Mosaic and her work has appeared in Moody Magazine, Focus on the Family, and many other publications.
	Lora Zill--Nonfiction Articles, Personal Essays, and Article-length Memoir Lora is director of the St. Davids Conference and editor of Time of Singing. She has an MA in English and teaches at Gannon University, for Allegheny College's gifted program for high school students, and for the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. Her nonfiction and poetry have been widely published.