My wonderful colleague Joe Ponepinto is the go to man for writing mentorship.  We endured the MFA together and Joe was always available to help answer questions or offer an astute critique.

Read all about my colleague, Joe, the services he offers and how you can learn from him. Go ahead and sign up for his blog.

Joe Ponepinto is the Book Review Editor for the Los Angeles Review. He was the winner of the 2011 Springfed Arts Writers Contest (Michigan) in fiction, and was a finalist in Black Lawrence Press’s 2011 St. Lawrence Book Award contest for his short story collection. He has been published extensively in literary journals.

Joe teaches fiction for a local arts organization. He also mentors individual students or small groups in a 12-week, intensive writing course. He provides critique and editing services for writing from short stories to novel length works. For full details, please visit his site at http://thirdreader.com.

Joe believes in creating a literary relationship with his clients—one in which they work together to achieve a finished manuscript that truly communicates the writer’s intent, and has the potential to be published.

Two mentors: Bruce Holland Rogers(http://shortshortshort.com/aboutbruce.html) and Kathleen Alcála (http://www.kathleenalcala.com/)