Spot Revision with Mary Helen Stefaniak

Make your manuscript captivating with attention-grabbing language in our spot revision class! Learn to expand, rephrase, and substitute words while making your work fresh and unpredictable with added texture. Bring a page from your own writing for exchange and suggestions in class. Then, apply the techniques learned to create a stronger draft.
Mary Helen Stefaniak is an accomplished writer of fiction and essays, with her work featured in many prestigious publications. Her latest novel, The World of Pondside, is a mystery set in a nursing home that has been praised for infusing joy and dignity into a seemingly bleak environment. Her first book of nonfiction, The Six-Minute Memoir, is a collection of short essays selected from her monthly columns in The Iowa Source. Stefaniak’s writing has been published in The Iowa Review, EPOCH, The Yale Review, AGNI, The Antioch Review, and several anthologies.