The Writing Academy

A journey of discovery through writing. . .



The Writing Academy offers education, inspiration, and community to beginning writers and seasoned professionals alike. On this site, you can get information about our seminars, our correspondence courses, and our annual writing contest. You can read samples of writing by our members in Showcase. And you can link to other websites of interest to writers.

One thing a writer yearns for - I yearn for - is the communal support of other writers: who read, appreciate, criticize one's material; who hold the same aesthetics and standards; who rejoice in the same faith - and who will sharpen one's own critical tooth by allowing response to their material as well. Besides your standards and the constant flow of new thought, new goodness from your summer speakers, this is what I most love and praise about you: that you are community.

—Walter Wangerin, Jr.,
a past Writing Academy speaker

Walter Wangerin, Jr.

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This web page last updated on October 3, 2007.