Submission deadline for our May session will be 8 pm on Wednesday, May 1st. If you do not intend to participate in our Meetup, please do not submit manuscripts or RSVP "yes." Please read our guidelines before submitting & critiquing. The guidelines can be found under our website's toolbar heading "More/Message boards" (the guidelines may not be visible on a smartphone). You will get a bit more than 8 days to read manuscripts and write your critiques. Also, we are, at least for this Meetup, most likely extending the non-poetic manuscript page limit to 25 pages. PLEASE BE SURE TO RSVP "YES" IF YOU WISH TO ATTEND: YOUR RSVP WILL HELP ME DECIDE THE PAGE LIMIT THIS TIME. NOTE: please make sure you submit to meyusko2@yahoo.com. Please don't submit by replying to the announcement email.

What to do before the Meetup

If you RSVP "yes," please email me (to meyusko2@yahoo.com) a photo of your latest vaccination card. I recommend that you place your thumb over your birthdate to protect your identity the way I did. You must be fully vaccinated PLUS have received AT LEAST TWO BOOSTERS to attend in person. Yes, this is a change in our policy from prior months (we used to require only one booster). If you don't send me your photo, I will expect you to attend via Zoom. (Plenty of people prefer to attend via Zoom anyway.) Please read your assigned manuscripts and write critiques for them. Please don't just mark up other's manuscripts: please write formal critiques. The longer & more detailed your formal, written critiques, the better.

What to bring to the in-person Meetup

Please bring hardcopies of your critiques to hand to each writer. Make sure your printer is working the day before the Meetup. If you don't have a printer, please make time to write out your critiques by hand. I don't want any emailed critiques. Please don't show up to the Meetup with your vaccination card. I would like to see your card via email beforehand.

You must be fully vaccinated plus have received at least TWO boosters to attend in person. And I ask that we mask as we meet. I will have brand new N-95 masks available for you if you forget a mask. For those who refuse to get vaccinated, we will run Zoom concurrently. I reserve the right to decide if your vaccination card is satisfactory enough for you to attend in person: if your card meets our criteria, I will tell you where we will meet.

What to do if you attend via Zoom

If you have been assigned manuscripts to critique, please upload, to our Dropbox, your critiques of those manuscripts. Your critiques must be in the Dropbox before the session begins.

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