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On Friday, September 14, a select group of poets will bring their completed or in-progress manuscripts to this place -- Truchas Peaks Place, located in the historic village of Truchas, midway between Taos and Sante Fe, New Mexico. In a spacious house, newly constructed in the adobe style of the region, with panoramic views of the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, the poets will meet and work with poet, publisher & editor Jeffrey Levine (Tupelo Press), Carmen Giménez Smith (Noemi Press), Ellen Dore Watson (Smith College), and conference founder Joan Houlihan (Lesley University).

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The Colrain Poetry Manuscript Conferenceprovides the faculty, connections, and a unique and realistic method of manuscript evaluation in order 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 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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