I work with writers across genres and at all stages. It’s incredibly gratifying to see ideas transform on the page and into published text. With over twelve years of professional teaching and editing experience, I approach manuscripts holistically and will help you envision your project in actionable ways. Please feel free to get in touch via my contact page or email me at kaitlinwisel@gmail.com for inquiries.

Services: partial reads, full reads, written feedback, in-person or virtual meetings, one-on-one coaching, copy edits or line editing 
Genres: short stories, novels, non-fiction, memoir, poetry; query letters
Rate: $80/hr with sliding scale available
About the Instructor: Kate Wisel is the author of Driving in Cars with Homeless Men, winner of the 2019 Drue Heinz Literature Prize, selected by Min Jin Lee. She also worked as a research assistant on the book Soulless: The Case Against R. Kelly. Her fiction can be found in places that include Prairie Schooner, Gulf Coast, Tin House, Adroit Journal, Redivider (as winner of the Beacon Street Prize), Terrain as winner of the 2024 Editor’s Prize and has been anthologized in W.W. Norton’s Flash Fiction America and The Best Small Fictions 2019. She is the recipient of the “Poetry on the T” prize and the Marcia Keach Prize. She was a Carol Houck fiction fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and awarded scholarships at the Wesleyan Writer’s Conference, Squaw Valley Writer’s Workshop, Juniper Institute, Writing x Writer’s at Tomales Bay and Methow Valley and elsewhere. She teaches at Carroll University. She is a screenwriter in the Writers Guild of America and is currently in development on a television series. She is represented by Stephanie Delman at Trellis Literary Management. For film/TV, she is represented by Hilary Zaitz Michael at WME.

TESTIMONIALS

“I met Kate in a workshop in California in 2016 and immediately knew there was something special about this woman and her work. Compassionate yet unflinching, committed and creative, she brings the same qualities to her editing as she does to her writing and is one of those rare people who is gifted in both fields. She has strengthened my novel enormously and given me so many things to think about and try in story. She makes specific suggestions and also has the long view. And she is deeply caring about the writing and writers she works with. I am so lucky to have worked with Kate and hope to again in the future.” -Susannah Dainow

“Working with Kate will transform your writing. She is responsive, beyond encouraging, and provides insightful written feedback that draws out the best writing at both a conceptual and line level.” -Matt Hernandez