Poetry Chapbook Editing, Poetry Full-Length Editing, Poetry Mentoring, Lineation & White Space Coaching, Submission Guidance
Alison Palmer is an award-winning, published poet, and freelance poetry editor with over twenty years of organized writing experience. She has published three poetry collections: Bargaining with the Fall (Broadstone Books, 2023), Everything Is Normal Here (Broadstone Books, 2022), and The Need for Hiding (Dancing Girl Press, 2018). For over four years, Alison has mentored senior creative writers from Charleston County School of the Arts (her alma mater), producing full-length poetry or hybrid collections. Alison instills her love of the writing process in everyone she coaches. She focuses on the importance (and fun) of lineation and white space, defining features a poet wants to feel confident using before submitting to literary journals. With around forty journal publications, and as a recent Independent Artist Award grant winner from the Maryland State Arts Council, Alison is dedicated to the writing craft. She confidently guides desirous poets toward writing and publishing success!
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