longer poetry manuscripts

Features

• Your writing will be thoughtfully matched to the most suitable Macha Press editor

• Your level a or b reports will be available in approximately 4-5 weeks. Your level c report will be available within approx. 8 weeks.

• Honest, constructive and informed assessment will enable you to consider your next steps as a writer within creative communities and the literary marketplace

• Our developmental and structural advice will outline where you are most matching your own intent as a poet, Accordingly, we will advise on how to bring your manuscript to its best possible shape.

• Our highly skilled team can address many approaches to poetry, from the traditional lyric to hybrid, interdisciplinary, or experimental work. We may also be able to advise on the practice of translation. As practising writers, our editorial team is well-placed to advise on outlets for publication.

Editors undertaking Editorial Services include:

Kathleen McCracken

Kathleen has over 30 years of experience editing poetry, both as a lecturer in Creative and as a freelance editor, mentor and community arts facilitator. She has prepared for publication eight of her own collections of poetry as well as working with emerging and established poets in preparing manuscripts for submission. She has also undertaken collaborative work to produce a bilingual edition of my poetry, and with visual artists to create various poetry/photography/film projects.

 Siobhán Campbell

Siobhán brings experience of poetry, prose poetry and creative nonfiction editing via her own six collections and over decades of work with Wolfhound Press and Kingston University Press. Siobhán has successfully edited the work of poets for publication and performance in Ireland and the UK, working with many of the leading arts organisations including the John Hewitt Society, Poetry Ireland and the Irish Writers’ Centre. Working both in the lyric and with more experimental forms, Siobhán specialises in helping to shape sequences, chapbooks and full collections. Feedback via Words Ireland programmes mentions Siobhán’s individualised care for each text and its author.

Natasha Cuddington

Natasha has a decade of editing experience in literary and community arts contexts, where she has co-edited a number of publications, including posthumous collections by activist Ann Zell, Donegal is a red door (Of Mouth, 2016) and the anthology Her Other Language: Northern Irish Women Writers Address Domestic Violence and Abuse (Of Mouth / Arlen House, 2020). She assistant editor at Cyphers, an active reviewer and  literary events curator with collaborative experience crossing disciplines. Her particular interests include experimental poetics and long poem, as per her debut collection, and inter-art form. She facilitates poetry workshops at the Crescent Arts Center, with disability arts organisations and is understood as an abettor of radical work.