Consultation on a short manuscript, up to ~10 pages or ~5000 words.

Jia Tolentino is a staff writer for the New Yorker and author of the essay collection Trick Mirror.

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Website: https://www.newyorker.com/contributors/jia-tolentino

Premium Full-length Poetry Manuscript Consultation
(For manuscripts between 48 - 64 pages)

This service includes extensive feedback on your manuscript's title, overarching project, and order and structure, plus line edits and title feedback on every poem. It includes an assessment of which poems are most integral to the project, as well as two 1-hour video/phone calls to review my suggestions (one of the two calls must be held after feedback has been provided.)

Leslie Sainz is a first generation Cuban-American poet and editor, born and raised in Miami, Florida. A two-time National Poetry Series Finalist, she received her MFA in poetry from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her work has appeared in or is forthcoming from New England Review, Kenyon Review Online, AGNI, jubilat, Narrative, Black Warrior Review, and others. She is the recipient of a 2021 National Endowment for the Arts Poetry Fellowship, and has received scholarships, fellowships, and honors from CantoMundo, The Miami Writers Institute, The Adroit Journal, and The Stadler Center for Poetry & Literary Arts at Bucknell University.

This item was kindly donated by Leslie Sainz

Artist Website: https://www.lesliesainz.com/editorial

For each month of this six-month subscription, our booksellers hand-select a brand new, hardcover book that we send to our subscribers via USPS. You can choose from the following genres: fiction, nonfiction, poetry, young adult, middle grade, picture book, and cookbook. (Please note the cookbook subscription is quarterly and includes 4 books yearly).

Books Are Magic was started in May 2017 in Cobble Hill Brooklyn and is home to exciting new releases and beloved classics, hidey-holes for children and books to read in them, gumballs filled with poetry, readings and events every week, and yes, plenty of magic.

This item was kindly donated by Books Are Magic

Company Website: booksaremagic.net

Two admission passes to SoJo Spa Club at the unbelievable facility right outside of New York City. Valid for weekends or weekdays.

SoJo Spa Club offers an unparalleled wellness experience with over 140,000 square feet of pools, specialty baths, saunas, treatment rooms, lounging and dining areas. Our expansive state-of-the-art facility has been thoughtfully designed as a fully immersive holistic health experience. Rooted in the Korean culture, we are a barefoot facility. Located just outside New York City, SoJo Spa Club is situated on the Hudson River in Edgewater, New Jersey. Complimentary valet parking service is available to all of our guests. For those traveling from New York City, we offer a complimentary shuttle to and from Manhattan, seven days a week. Upon arriving, don't forget to sign up at the Front Desk for your return trip!

Passes are valid for 1 year from 10/14/21.

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Website: https://www.sojospaclub.com/

The Mavis + Roots 1 Hour Virtual Design Consultation is a curated Interior Design mini session done via Zoom, Skype, or Facetime to help kick-start your personal project and/or answer your design questions to help you get "unstuck" and fulfill your interior dreams!

Mavis + Roots is a boutique studio focused on bringing our clients curated, engaging, and often educational experiences, with services ranging from interior design to historic preservation, and lifestyle planning. At M+R, we believe in the power of all things around us - be it power through influence, imagination, reputation, or more. As a design studio, we work with the world through the tangible built environment and continuously strive to harness the magical and often mystical powers that create the places of old, new, momentary and permanent. Design, Preservation, Lifestyle collectively embodies the identity of our studio, bringing us the opportunity to engage with different projects and a wide variety of clients. We are excited at the opportunity to design something new, preserve something old, or plan. something fresh for any client and are looking forward to hearing more about your project!

This item was kindly donated by Mavis + Roots

Company Website: https://mavisandroots.com/

When Zahir Janmohamed started Racist Sandwich in 2016, there were not that many podcasts around. Today, there are so many podcasts that there are podcasts about podcasts. In this consultation, Zahir will help you come up with a podcast idea and pitch, to guide you through some of the technical and financial challenges of podcasting, and finally, to put you in touch with people who can help you make your podcast a reality.

Zahir Janmohamed is a Visiting Assistant Professor of English at Bowdoin College. He received his MFA in fiction at the University of Michigan where he received awards in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and playwriting. In 2019, the podcast he co-founded, Racist Sandwich, was nominated for a James Beard Award.

This item was kindly donated by Zahir Janmohamed

Artist's Website: zahirjanmohamed.com

Initial East Asian medical consultation and treatment, and one follow-up treatment. The first session will be 90 minutes with a thorough assessment, evaluation and acupuncture treatment. The follow-up appointment is included because it gives the individual the opportunity to ask questions and discuss what changes they felt after the first treatment. The follow up will be 75 minutes and include a second acupuncture treatment with any appropriate additional modalities, such as Kyojung, cupping, guasha, and medical qigong. The follow up is suggested to be scheduled within 2 weeks of the initial session.

Ailin Kojima is a general practitioner of East Asian medicine, encompassing acupuncture, Chinese herbal medicine, medical qigong, Kyojung (Korean physical medicine) and Eastern nutrition. She has been practicing since 2007 and continues to study with masters and specialists locally and abroad. She finds that the more she learns, the more she realizes there remains to learn, from modern research, classical writings and even from her clients. She focuses on getting to know and treating each individual, drawing from her years of experience and utilizing different techniques as necessary. She enjoys educating her clients about their health with the East Asian medical perspective, while drawing parallels to Western biomedicine. She realizes that lifestyle adjustments need to be manageable, and openly discussed to fully help her clients feel able to keep their health on track.

She recently has particular interest in mental health, pain conditions and digestive disorders. Since the start of the pandemic, mental-emotional, spiritual, and physical health has become more challenging for many of us to maintain. Stresses are high as everyone is adapting to the unpredictable future, and our bodies can become deeply exhausted. East Asian medicine can help to calm the central nervous system, replenish the adrenals, and re-regulate an imbalanced system to relieve symptoms such as anxiety and excessive worry, insomnia, digestive upset, brain fog, fatigue, and pain, to name a few. There is much more that can be treated, as well as providing stress relief and general wellness.

This item was kindly donated by Ailin Kojima LLC

Company Website: www.ailinkojima.com

The manuscript consultation will consist of a 90 minute conversation about your work in writing with Akil Kumarasamy.

Akil Kumarasamy is the author of the story collection, Half Gods, published by FSG in 2018, which was named a New York Times Editors' Choice, and was the recipient of the Bard Fiction Prize, Story Prize Spotlight Award and a finalist for the PEN/Robert Bingham Prize. Her work has appeared in Harper's Magazine, American Short Fiction, Boston Review, among others. She has received fellowships from the University of East Anglia, the Provincetown Fine Arts Work Center, Yaddo, and the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. She is an Assistant Professor at the Rutgers-Newark MFA program and her debut novel is forthcoming with FSG.

This item was kindly donated by Akil Kumarasamy.

This item includes a Signed Filipinx cook book by Ligaya Mishan/Angela Dimayuga and consultation on a short manuscript up to ten pages by Ligaya Mishan.

Ligaya Mishan is the Hungry City columnist for The New York Times and a contributing editor at T Magazine, and has written for The New York Review of Books and The New Yorker.

This item was kindly donated by Ligaya Mishan.