Need help with your writing? Want to make those sentences gleam, that cover letter pop? Need help getting through the middle build of your novel? Suffer from PAS (Plot Aversion Syndrome)? Need to find some escalation or help those characters climb the beanstalks of their arcs?

David is available for freelance editing work, as well as consultations about placing your work and navigating the publishing industry.

He has experience working as a fiction-writing mentor at the PhD and MFA level, and he has also been Acting Editor for The Fiddlehead. He has a doctorate in English from Western University, and over ten years of experience teaching at the university level.

David’s specialties include ecological writing, literary, gothic, fantasy, novels, short stories, and poetry.

For information about David’s services and rates, or to book a preliminary Zoom meeting, please email: davidhuebert1@gmail.com.

Here are a few selected testimonials from people David has mentored in the past:

“I have gotten so much out of this course already. You are a fantastic teacher and I’m learning from you. I’ve known this since I first heard you lecture, but it’s been wonderful to be a part of your class and critique writing together. You have an amazing ability to listen and then add on to what your students are telling you in a way that highlights what they’ve said (and often reframes the message in a neater package), and then you add on and further develop the idea in a way that makes the statement bigger and brighter. I look forward to the class and your insights every week.”

—Adelle Purdham, author of I Don’t Do Disability (and other lies I’ve told myself)

“David Huebert was the writer-in-residence that the New Brunswick community needed in 2020-2021. He brought literary sophistication combined with sensitivity to the needs of a smaller community of writers. I participated in 3 of his projects. I was spurred on to better writing through his advice and encouragement. I appreciated his skill, guidance, humour,  impeccable policing of incorrectness of the type that would harm marginalized communities, and his beautiful online presence. If this year were an hour, as it sometimes seemed as the isolation days merged, David was its high quality writerly human.” 

—Josephine Savarese, Faculty, Criminology and Criminal Justice, St. Thomas University 

“Over the course of David Huebert’s Residency at UNB I’ve had the privilege to take two different writing workshops with him. Both of which were lively, thought-provoking, and — most important for any writer — a safe space to share our thoughts and first drafts. His encouragement and playfulness, as well as his deep concern for environmental and social issues, set the tone for a wonderful experience.”

—Jenn Carson, Author and L.P. Fischer Public Library Director