Writing consulation with the acclaimed writer Professor George Saunders. Mr. Saunders will read and critique a short work of fiction (30-40 pages) and provide substantive comments, in the form of line edits and written comments.  He will then follow-up with a phone call to the writer.

This an amazing opportunity for some very lucky person. Do you know a budding writer who would cherish this as a gift?

George Saunders is an American writer of short stories, essays, novellas and children's books. His writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Harper's,McSweeney's and GQ. He also contributed a weekly column, American Psyche, to the weekend magazine of The Guardian until October 2008.

A professor at Syracuse University, Saunders won the National Magazine Award for fiction in 1994, 1996, 2000, and 2004, and second prize in the O. Henry Awards in 1997. His first story collection, CivilWarLand in Bad Decline, was a finalist for the 1996 PEN/Hemingway Award. In 2006 Saunders received a MacArthur Fellowship. In 2006 he won the World Fantasy Awardfor his short story "CommComm". His story collection In Persuasion Nation was a finalist for The Story Prize in 2007. In 2013, he won the PEN/Malamud Award and was a finalist for theNational Book Award. Saunders's Tenth of December: Stories won the 2013 Story Prize for short-story collections and the inaugural (2014) Folio Prize.

George Saunders one of TIME's 100 most influential people in the world http://time100.time.com/2013/04/18/time-100/slide/george-saunders/

http://www.georgesaundersbooks.com/