Creative Writing Academy

Transform your dreams, ideas, and stories into organized, compelling, creative written works through Georgetown's virtual Creative Writing Academy. Led virtually by Georgetown instructors and renowned literary figures, our one-week program features a blend of online workshops, lectures, and tutorials coupled with insightful, productive peer review sessions. You'll have opportunities to experiment with innovative forms of creative writing while also generating and polishing a wealth of new poems, stories, and personal essays. In addition to covering the writing process, our program also focuses on the publishing and professionalization aspects of the industry. You'll explore what markets are available for your writing, the types of jobs available to creative writers, funding opportunities for your work, undergraduate and graduate programs in writing, and strategies for getting published.