About Us
Pencilhouse’s feedback program works to provide high-quality assistance on your creative works in progress, whether they’re poetry, fiction, or non-fiction. You can expect in-depth commentary on your writing, tailored specifically to you.
About Us
Pencilhouse’s feedback program works to provide high-quality assistance on your creative works in progress, whether they’re poetry, fiction, or non-fiction. You can expect in-depth commentary on your writing, tailored specifically to you.
How It Works
First, you submit your work to Pencilhouse—we open FREE PUBLIC SUBMISSIONS on the 2nd of every month and stay open until we hit our submissions cap. If you’re a Pencilhouse patron, worry not—we are ALWAYS OPEN for patron submissions!
Once they receive your work, your volunteer critic reads your submission with care and prepares in-depth feedback meant to help develop your piece(s) and to assist you in taking your writing where you want it to go.
When we reach our submissions cap, we route your work to an experienced volunteer critic. Find out more about our critics here!
As soon as your critic wraps up their comments we’ll send them back to you via email. It’s that simple.
First, you submit your work to Pencilhouse—we open FREE PUBLIC SUBMISSIONS on the 2nd of every month and stay open until we hit our public submissions cap. If you miss the boat, don’t worry—submissions are ALWAYS OPEN for Pencilhouse patrons!
When we reach our submissions cap, we route your work to an experienced volunteer critic. Find out more about our critics here!
Once they receive your work, your volunteer critic reads your submission with care and prepares in-depth feedback meant to help develop your piece(s) and to assist you in taking your writing where you want it to go.
As soon as your critic wraps up their comments we’ll send them back to you via email. It’s that simple.
Our Volunteers
At the center of Pencilhouse’s flagship feedback program is its volunteer critics. Their experienced eyes and encouraging voices are what breathes life into Pencilhouse’s mission to foster the writing process for new and developing writers.
As a Pencilhouse volunteer critic, you’ll receive one piece a month in your chosen genre (poetry/fiction/creative non-fiction, or any combination that suits you!), and the opportunity to read and respond to the submitter’s work on your own schedule over the course of a few weeks.
Many of our volunteer critics note that writing feedback helps to keep their skills sharp—and they pretty universally love knowing they’re able to offer a couple hours a month for the good of the writing community at large!
Our Volunteers
At the center of Pencilhouse’s flagship feedback program is its volunteer critics. Their experienced eyes and encouraging voices are what breathes life into Pencilhouse’s mission to foster the writing process for new and developing writers.
As a Pencilhouse volunteer critic, you’ll receive one piece a month in your chosen genre (poetry/fiction/creative non-fiction, or any combination that suits you!), and the opportunity to read and respond to the submitter’s work on your own schedule over the course of a few weeks.
Many of our volunteer critics note that writing feedback helps to keep their skills sharp—and they pretty universally love knowing they’re able to offer a couple hours a month for the good of the writing community at large!