Editing and Writing Services

Jeff at the Brisbane Writers Festival.
I have 20 years of writing and editing experience. My commitment to excellence, creativity, professionalism, and timeliness is absolute. I am a dynamic and energizing speaker. I also love to travel.
Please query me for rates and availability, or email me at vanderworld at hotmail.com. Don’t assume I’m not interested as I am doing a wide variety of work, including a lot more short stories. Resume and references available upon request.
Main Services
- Critique fiction/nonfiction one-on-one.
- Teach one-day or week-long workshops.
- Lecture on a variety of writing-related topics.
- Read from my fiction or do a multi-media presentation based on my fiction.
- Create or edit educational, PR, informational, or technical text.
- Most other editing or writing gigs (if it involves writing or editing, chances are I have experience doing it).
Representative Clients
- Amazon.com
- FCAT Explorer
- LearnSomething
- Microsoft/Mondo Robot
- Publishers Weekly
- Washington Post Book World
- Individual beginning and intermediate writers
Teaching/Guest of Honor/Guest Speaker Gigs (a sampling)
- Brisbane Writers Festival, Australia
- Clarion Writers Workshop
- Finncon, Helsinki
- Trinity Prep School, Orlando
- Odyssey Workshop, New Hampshire
- Utopiales, France
- Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis
Other Partnerships
- Manchester International Festival/Sony Playstation Europe (animated cartoon)
- The Church band (CD and short film)



Award-winning writer Jeff VanderMeer will spend the summer visiting Romania and the Czech Republic, teaching at Shared Worlds (Wofford College), and finishing his novel Finch. He writes nonfiction for The Washington Post Book World, Amazon's book blog, and many others. He also co-edits fiction anthos with his wife, Ann VanderMeer (fiction editor of Weird Tales), and The Church recently completed a song cycle based on his last novel, Shriek: An Afterword. Through mid-October, a diverse group of guest bloggers will be posting here. If you like the blog, please consider 




