Introduction: $30/hr
I specialize in editing Spiritual Memoir and any genre of Fiction. As an editor, fiction writer, memoirist, and poet myself, I’m sure I have the skills to take your writing project to the next level. I’m a published author and a nationally-awarded writer. I have 25 years of experience teaching, have published 7 books and numerous articles. I currently teach writing classes at Broward College and have taught at an additional 5 colleges and universities.
I like to see rough material transformed into a finished draft. I am inspired by the writers I've worked with as well. I enjoy words and making sentences flow. I believe all good writing is a discovery of self and world from each unique author's perspective and I look for the golden nuggets in each piece I read and try to bring them forth.
Sometimes paragraphs are out of order, more effective beginnings and endings can be found, or scenery and landscape needs developing. My developmental editing takes care of all that. Resonance is important for subtle symbols to get across to readers unconsciously. I enjoy finding or suggesting nuances that occur to me while studying the work.
I've published in 4 genres, poetry, fiction, memoir and literary criticism, so I am quite versatile and have worked with many different kinds of books including thrillers, romances, sci-fi, literary novels, memoirs, self-help books, and a wide range from poetry to instructional manuals. I am a word wizard and can tune into another writer's unique voice to make my editing compatible.
Whether you are working on a new novel, a collection of essays or stories, a non-fiction subject or a magazine article, I am here to help and look forward to hearing about your writing project.
Formal Biographical Note
Books: Deborah DeNicola is the author of seven books. Her most recent publication is her poetry collection, "The Impossible" from Kelsay Press.] and "Original Human," from Word Tech Press for which she received her fifth Pushcart Nomination. "The Impossible" won the poetry competition at the Los Angeles Book Festival 2021. Her spiritual memoir, and Amazon Best Seller, "The Future That Brought Her Here" from Nicholas Hays/Ibis Press reached #1 is Psychology and Social Sciences on Amazon in Sept 2009 and won an Honorable Mention at the Los Angeles Book Festival in 2013. In 2007 Finishing Line Press published "Inside Light," a chapbook. Deborah edited the anthology "Orpheus & Company; Contemporary Poems on Greek Mythology" from The University Press of New England at Dartmouth College.
Awards: $20,000 Individual Artist Grant from the National Endowment of the Arts, 2008 The analytical essay award from Packingtown Review and The Santa Barbara Poetry Award. The first place award from Briar Cliff Review Poetry Competition in 2006 and Carpe Articulum’s first place award in their 2010 Poetry Contest. In 2013 for the short story, “Come Alone to the Alone,” Deborah won The Carol Bly Short Story Competition and it is featured online . She was awarded a Poetry Fellowship in 1997 from the National Endowment for the Arts, the William T. Foley Award from America, The Barbara Bradley Award from The New England Poetry Club, and a Special Mention from The Pushcart Prizes 1992. She is also the author of "Where Divinity Begins" (Alice James Press) and four other chapbooks, "Inside Light" (2007) from Finishing Line Press, "Harmony of the Next" (2005) which won the Riverstone Chapbook Award, "Psyche Revisited" (1992), which won the Embers Magazine Chapbook Contest, and "Rainmakers" (Coyote Love Press ). Deborah has received 6 Pushcart Prize nominations. Her poems and reviews have been published in many anthologies and a Special Mention from The Pushcart in 1992. She has published in journals such as The North American Review, The Antioch Review, Crab Orchard Review, Fiction International, Nimrod, The Journal, The Boston Book Review, Prairie Schooner, Runes and Orion among others.
Fellowships and Other Residencies: A Bread Loaf Scholar, a recipient of fellowships from The MacDowell Colony, The Centrum Foundation, The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, and The Vermont Studios,
Teaching: As an adjunct professor Deborah has taught in the Boston area at The Massachusetts College of Art, Boston University, Massasoit College, Pine Manor College, and Lesley University. She currently teaches writing at Broward College in coconut Creek, FL, and dream image workshops in South Florida. She served as Poetry Reviewer for The Ft. Lauderdale Sun Sentinel Sunday newspaper, an associate editor for the South Florida Poetry Journal and a freelance editor for many, many people working on books. Deborah is also a Dream Coach who works off her website,
Deborah studied Dream Image Work with Robert Bosnak, the founder of Embodied Dreaming Technique. She has presented Writing Workshops and Dream Image workshops at The Duncan Center, Delray Beach, FL., Inner Wisdom Books, Deerfield Beach, FL, The Goddess Store, Hollywood, FL, The Crystal Garden, Boynton Beach, FL, The Unitarian Universalist Church, Andover, MA, The Center for Spiritual Enlightenment and Bridges of Wellness in Ft. Lauderdale, Rowe Conference Center in Rowe, MA, Open Doors Bookstore, Braintree, MA, and Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA.
