I EDIT @ Iska Café: Editing Texts and Feedback from Fellow Writers

Wer schreibt, braucht Distanz. Im Iska Café treffen sich Schreibende zum direkten Austausch von Manuskripten. Hier wird nicht vor der Gruppe vorgelesen, sondern im Paar gearbeitet. Das Prinzip ist simpel. Du bringst einen Text zwischen 1.000 und 2.000 Wörtern mit und erhältst im Gegenzug eine fremde Perspektive auf dein eigenes Werk. Der Fokus liegt auf konstruktiver Kritik und der Arbeit am Text. Nach einer Phase des stillen Lesens und Kommentierens folgt der Austausch zwischen den Schreibenden. Die Zeit am Ende dient dazu, das erhaltene Feedback direkt in den eigenen Entwurf einzuarbeiten.

You’ve written your text. You’ve bled into the page and poured your heart into the words. Now what? Welcome to I EDIT, a peer-review space where writers trade drafts, polish rough edges, and gently perform open-heart surgery on each other’s manuscripts. How it works: We will match texts and editors in a direct swap (you edit your partner's text, they edit yours). That means you will read one text and get feedback on your text from one editor! You will not have to read out loud, and you will not get group feedback from everyone. - 10:30 – 10:50: arrival, socializing and starting to match-up texts to editors Please ensure that you arrive shortly before 11, as it will be difficult to fit any late-comers into the editing pairs/groups. Thank you! - 10:50 – 11:00: final match-up of texts, explanation of rules - 11:00 – 11:45: silent reading, commenting and editing the swapped texts (can be extended depending on the group) - short break - 11:55 – 12:30: mutual feedback, Q&A, and discussion between writer and editor - 12:30 – 13:00: silent writing to implement the feedback into your text (The last two blocks might change or flow into each other a bit, depending on the group.) What to bring: Please bring a text you need feedback on - a non-academic text in English or German, in a sharable form for your editor to read and annotate: printed out, or be ready to hand over your laptop/device - with 1.000 to maximum 2.000 words in length. You can bring multiple very short texts if they do not exceed this limit together. If you want feedback on a stand-alone scene from a larger work, a short context summary at the beginning makes sense. - think ahead on any specific questions / topics you want feedback on: emotional impact, characterization, pacing, tone, does the beginning hook you?, etc. - please check if your text needs content warnings, which we will consider when finding an editor. A content warning might sound like: “brief mention / de...