WritingWorkshops.com is the official education partner of Electric Literature — the only independent writing school with a direct partnership with a major literary publication. We are an artist-run creative writing school, founded in 2016, for writers who want to develop their craft, find their community, and work toward publication with instructors who’ve done it themselves.

Our students’ work speaks for itself. Since 2016, writers who’ve studied with us have signed with agents and sold debut books to Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, St. Martin’s, and Amistad. They’ve been named National Book Award finalists, selected for the TODAY Book Club, and won the Halifax Prize from American Short Fiction and the Mary McCarthy Prize from Sarabande Books. They’ve earned admission to the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, the Michener Center, Syracuse, NYU, and Columbia. They’ve received fellowships from Tin House, Sewanee, the Vermont Studio Center, and the Elizabeth George Foundation. They’ve won the James Patterson “Go Finish Your Book” Grant, been named PEN America Emerging Voices Fellows, published essays in The New York Times, and more. See a full roundup of student publications here.

Our instructors are National Book Award and Pulitzer finalists, New York Times bestsellers, and contributors to The New Yorker, The Atlantic, The New York Times, Pushcart Prize, and Best American anthologies. As recognized by The Writer’s Chronicle, WritingWorkshops.com is a leading alternative to traditional MFA programs.

We offer online workshops in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and screenwriting, IndieMFA programs for writers seeking a structured alternative to graduate school, destination writing retreats in Paris, Ireland, NYC, New Orleans, Portland, Tuscany, Iceland, and beyond, and private mentorships with published authors. Classes are intentionally small, offered on a rolling basis year-round, and open to writers at every stage. Tuition can be paid in full or in equal monthly installments at checkout.

Our programs have been featured in Literary Hub, Electric Literature, The Writer’s Chronicle, Winning Writers, New Pages, Poets & Writers, the Association of Writers & Writing Programs (AWP), and elsewhere.

Every class we build starts with the same question: what will this writer be able to do after this that they couldn’t do before? We care about craft — the specific, learnable skills that make writing land. And we care about what happens after the workshop ends: the submissions, the revisions, the community that keeps you writing when no one’s watching. Thank you for letting us be part of your writing life. —Blake Kimzey, Founder & Executive Director