teaching and freelance editing
1. August 2, 2025: Christine will present a publishing tutorial, "The Path to Publication," for the online Northwestern University Summer Writers Conference from 1-2 PM Pacific/3-4 PM Central Time. More details about presenters, the conference schedule, and registration information are available here.
2. Fall 2025: Christine will be teaching an online writing workshop for Stanford Continuing Studies this fall, NVL 48, "Breaking Ground: A Beginning Novel Workshop" on Mondays, 6-8:30 PM PT, beginning September 22. Registration will open in August. Course description accessible here (this description is tied to the Winter 2025 class, but it is the same description for Fall 2025).
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3. Christine also teaches for the MA/MFA program in creative writing in Northwestern University's School of Professional Studies and is its faculty director. The program has a quarterly admissions cycle with applications due on January 15, April 15, July 15, and October 15. Program tracks are fiction, nonfiction, poetry, publishing and professional development, and dual genre. More information about the program can be found here.
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4. Year-round, she offers freelance editorial work for agent query letters, book manuscripts, and shorter prose pieces, along with poetry. You can write to Christine for more information through the contact portal available on the landing page for this website or follow her/subscribe to her Substack newsletter, Bookish, and contact her through that site.
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Testimonials:
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"I met Christine Sneed in late 2017, soon after my book Outside Is the Ocean was published. From our first conversations, it was clear to me that our sensibilities were very much aligned, and since then, she's become one of my most trusted readers. She has read a broad cross-section of the fiction I've written over the past several years as well as some of my creative nonfiction, and, in all cases, I've found her feedback to be invaluable. Not only is she able to pinpoint specific areas in my work that need improvement, but she's able to provide concrete suggestions at a micro as well as a macro level. She always strikes the right balance between being encouraging and providing constructive criticism, and her comments invariably help me see missed opportunities. She's perceptive, whip-smart, generous, and incredibly wise."
--Matthew Lansburgh, author of the Iowa Short Fiction Award-winning Outside Is the Ocean
“Christine Sneed is an astute, generous, smart, and diligent reader and editor. She’s also a wonderful human being who makes a writer proud of her work. I admire her fiction as much as I admire and respect her editorial skills. Her sharp eye, unwavering support, and collaborative spirit, have aided my revision process tremendously. Her informed critique has never compromised the creative integrity of my work, and I won’t hesitate to seek her professional advice in the future.”
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--Kristina Gorcheva-Newberry, author of What Isn’t Remembered: Stories and The Orchard
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