Clare Jones
Work with Clare
Please contact her to discuss rates and availability.
Retreats
In 2023, 2025, and 2026, Clare developed and led annual writing retreats in partnership with Hospicare & Palliative Care Services.
The in-person weekend-long retreats offer time and space for community members from all walks of life to process grief and loss through creative practice. Retreats are designed to provide participants with a private space and a quiet environment, free from the distractions of everyday life, where participants can engage in creative activities that they find meaningful. These programs have been made possible in full with funds from the Statewide Community Regrant program from the New York State Council on the Arts, with the support of the office of the Governor and NYS Legislature, administered by the Community Arts Partnership of Tompkins County.
Editing
As a developmental editor, Clare helps creative and content-driven writers present strong arguments, create and sustain immersive narratives, and polish their voices. Clare works primarily with scholars who want their books to transform conversations and communicate complex ideas to a broad public. Clare reads manuscripts closely, creates plans for revision, and helps authors make improvements at the levels of both line and structure.
Clare has been working in the editorial departments of academic presses since 2012, when she first interned at Wiley-Blackwell. Clare has taught college courses on creative writing, mentored law school applicants, and led literary festival events combining collage, board games, and more. Clare is a omnivorous reader and loves learning from experts in a range of fields while working together to realize their works’ potential.
Clare’s clients have written books that have been published by or are under contract with University of Iowa Press, Yale University Press, Cornell University Press, and University of Kentucky Press.
Webinars
Clare has developed, launched, and led in-person and virtual public and private programming in in partnership with a range of institutions, community groups, and non-profits:
Individual Coaching
Clare has met with individual clients since 2020. Every session with a client is centered on their creative goals. Clare can provide line edits and methods of playful, creative revision and support the generative process of writing.
Meetings are held on Zoom or Google Meets or arrangements can be made over email.
Training Programs
In 2024, Clare helped facilitate two national training programs connecting writers, editors, and publishers:
A national training program based at Brown University Library and designed for scholars who wish to produce digital publications, but may lack the necessary resources and capacity at their home institutions.
A national training program focused on building capacity at HBCU libraries and increasing the visibility and reach of HBCU-generated scholarship, led by Brown University Library in partnership with the HBCU Library Alliance and the University of Michigan Press.
