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Editorial Support & Mentoring

Field Studio offers editorial support in academic writing and creative nonfiction, tailored to your project and where it is in its development.

Nomi Stone offers editorial feedback on a manuscript to Dr. Anjana Bala at the School for Advanced Research in Santa Fe NM

What we offer

  • Structural editing for earlier-stage works, focused on shape, argument, and narrative arc
  • Line editing for nearly-finished manuscripts, focused on prose, voice, and precision
  • One-on-one support for full-length academic, nonfiction, or hybrid manuscripts
  • Ongoing developmental support for writers actively creating new work

Who we work with

We’ve supported academics writing their first book, as well as writers with many publications behind them. All support is tailored to your specific project and needs.

We welcome queries from writers of all backgrounds, and are particularly keen to work with writers from traditionally under-represented groups, including queer, trans, and BIPOC writers. If this applies to you and finances are a barrier to the editorial support your work needs, please mention this in your query and we will take it into account in our pricing for your project.

Our Specializations

Every project is different, and so is the person best placed to work on it. Ro and Nomi each bring their own editorial focus, shaped by their own writing and teaching backgrounds. Between them, they cover academic writing across the social sciences and humanities, alongside fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and hybrid forms.

Ro Skelton

Works with:

  • Academics in the social sciences interested in hybrid academic/creative nonfiction work
  • Fiction writers –novels and short stories
  • Nonfiction writers – memoirs and essays
  • Reporters –long-form investigative pieces

Particular interest: hybrid genres, and writers working outside their usual form.

Nomi Stone

Works with:

  • Academics in the social sciences and humanities, across a full range of book types – from tenure books to scholarly trade books to popular nonfiction
  • Poets, from line-level edits (syntax, form, volta etc.) through to full manuscript arc and structure

Particular interest: how the tools of creative writing––image, metaphor, scene, structure––don’t just build a world on the page, but can actively strengthen and enact an author’s argument.

  • Ro’s insight is leading me to the book I want to write.

    Rebecca Jarman, Professor of Humanities, University of Leeds

  • If you want an intellectually formidable and empathetic reader with whom to develop your writing – and, in turn, to continue refining your ideas – Nomi is by far the most helpful I have had in this process.

    Dr Emil Kerenji, Historian, Mandel Center, US Holocaust Memorial Museum

  • Nomi’s gift for writing and teaching is extraordinary and her passion is contagious. She will meet you where you are, helping you to write with greater ease, confidence, and creativity.

    Pamela Tomski, Founder & Director, Research Experience in Carbon Sequestration (RECS)

  • Ro is an excellent editor for those working to balance fine-grained, on-the-ground detail and texture with wider, global significance.

    Caroline Tracey, reporter and author of Salt Lakes: An Unnatural History (W.W. Norton).

  • Ro is a brilliant writer and editor. She sees what makes good art, and what it needs to level up.

    Erin Stalcup, author of Keen and Every Living Species and founder of Waxwing Magazine.

  • I worked with Ro on a strange beast, a book that is neither an ethnography nor a memoir but combines elements of both genres. I was in uncharted territory, and I was incredibly lucky to have Ro as my guide. She was at once supportive and uncompromising, helping me lean into my strengths as a writer and address weaknesses in the work. Her feedback covered every aspect of the manuscript, from the sound of sentences to character development to my treatment of time and place, giving me the input I needed to tell my story with greater beauty and clarity.

    Danilyn Rutherford, President, Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research.

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The Writer’s Room

For any writer who wants community — to write, learn craft, and meet others. We meet online every month, starting with a short craft lesson, then moving into a 45-minute generative writing session. We’ll offer a prompt, which you’re welcome to follow or not. Camera on or off — we don’t mind either way.

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