New group-blog, DeepGenre, is offering a free critiquing service to authors:

Back in the days of the late, lamented GEnie online service, Damon Knight opened a topic in which people could post the first thirteen lines of a story they had written, and he would critique it. When we were planning this blog site, I thought it would be a nice tribute to his memory to do the same in this new site. We will be polite about your work here, but we are not cheerleaders. Speaking just for myself, Katharine Kerr, I can be quite fierce about bad prose.

I take it at least one of the DeepGenre contributors will comment on the piece, though more than one may do so. Also, the crits are open to reader comments, so you can receive commentary there as well.