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Our writing coaches and editors win major prizes, sign with the world’s leading houses, and premiere on the most coveted stages and screens.
Recent faculty books include New York Times–featured literary novels (Penguin Random House, Simon & Schuster), Macmillan thrillers, and W.W. Norton poetry debuts, alongside Bram Stoker and Shirley Jackson Award finalists and a Read with Jenna book-club pick.
Our short fiction and essays appear in legacy magazines—The New Yorker, The Paris Review, The Atlantic, Guernica, Joyland—while our cultural criticism shapes debates in The New York Times, Artforum, Bookforum, Times Literary Supplement, CNN Opinion, and beyond.
Gilliam’s screenwriting faculty have captured international awards and festival recognition from Locarno and Glasgow to SXSW, Slamdance, and MoMA’s Doc Fortnight; sold original screenplays to Universal and FOX; and written and directed feature films and shows released by A24 (Obvious Child), Vertical (Yes, God, Yes—named one of The New Yorker’s Best Movies of 2020), Netflix (Nobody Wants This), 20th Century Studios (Rosaline), and HBO Max (Starstruck).
Our playwrights have won top honors at the Kennedy Center American College Theater Festival and developed new work with Clubbed Thumb, The Playwrights Realm, Williamstown Theatre Festival, New Georges, La MaMa, Cherry Lane Theatre, and more.
In the academy, we advance scholarship in journals like Cortex and Frontiers in Psychology, publishing peer-reviewed research on neuroscience, education, and the arts. Our faculty’s writing has also been featured in boundary-pushing anthologies from MIT Press and University of California Press.
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From best-selling novels, to prize-winning story collections, to festival-circuit screenplays, to peer-reviewed research articles, the works below speak for themselves.
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Writing Coaching
Get live, one‑on‑one guidance for literary, academic, or professional writing projects. Our writing coaches deliver hands-on practice & feedback, strategy for drafting & revising, & structured accountability to keep you writing consistently.
Manuscript & Book Editing
Collaborate with a professional book editor to improve your draft at any stage of development, from outline to polished prose. We tailor developmental, line, or copy edits to your goals & publishing timeline.
Manuscript Consultations & Mark-ups
Receive a detailed editorial letter (with or without a mark-up of your draft) followed by a live strategy session focused on your manuscript’s next steps. It’s an affordable way to pinpoint strengths, fix issues, & map out revisions before a full edit.
Weekly Online Writing Groups
Join a Zoom‑based Writing Room & commit to 1 hour of dedicated, distraction‑free work time every single week. Stay accountable, build momentum, & connect with a community of writers for just $20/month.
Academic Writing Tutoring
We provide personalized reading & writing tutoring to students K-12 & college. Our academic interventions can target crucial skills for any subject or grade level, from literacy fundamentals (phonics, vocab, reading comprehension, grammar, etc.) to more intermediate & advanced areas of study (essay structure, logic & argumentation, literary analysis, rhetoric, source vetting, & more).