Luke Wallin and Eva Gordon - Fiction and Nonfiction

About Our Manuscript Consultants:
We are a father-daughter team of writers and editors. Luke Wallin is an award-winning author who teaches in the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing program at Spalding University. Eva Gordon holds a degree from the writing concentration program from New School University, in New York City, and edited Luke’s most recent book, Conservation Writing: Essays at the Crossroads of Nature and Culture.

Our Writing Evaluation Services:
We offer mentoring to fellow writers: this includes manuscript critiques which identify patterns of strengths and weaknesses; careful line editing; suggestions for developing your work; and advice about publication and career building. Our work is supportive and confidential. Initial evaluation is free of charge.

Editorial Perspectives We Bring:
Eva studied fiction and nonfiction with writers at Eugene Lang College at New School University. She worked as an intern for Mendel Media Group (literary agents) and O, The Oprah Magazine (Books Department). Luke earned an MFA in fiction writing from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, where he studied with Richard Yates. Luke’s books have won awards and recognition from the American Library Association, The Library of Congress, and The Smithsonian Institution, among others. He is Professor Emeritus of English at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, has taught at Manhattan’s School of Visual Arts, and as a Fulbright Professor at University College Dublin. He has edited a community newspaper.

Genres We Help With:
Fiction, Nonfiction (including Journalism, Creative Nonfiction, and Memoir), and Writing for Children and Young Adults.

Clients and their Recently Published Books:
On request, we will share the names of recent and forthcoming books, both fiction and nonfiction, on which we have worked, and references from clients.

Free Manuscript Consultations:
Send an email to stories@lukewallin.com, and tell us about your project. As an attachment, you may include up to 10 pages of your text. We will consider the fit between your work and ours; if we decide to go forward we will offer some suggestions, and make you a proposal.

More Information About Us and Our Work:
Read some of Luke's and Eva's work, including Luke's creative nonfiction essay about an adventure with Eva, "Sharing Sacred Ground," published in Far from Home: Father-Daughter Travel Adventures, ed. by Wendy Knight, at lukewallin.com.