One-on-One Creative Writing Coaching, Consulting & Mentorship

• Gain Clarity & Direction: Create week-by-week project timelines with achievable milestones for your novel, story collection, poetry manuscript, or memoir.
• Overcome Blocks & Build Momentum: Develop a personalized writing routine that fuels your creativity—whether that's daily prompts or focused weekend sessions—and stick to it with built-in accountability.
• Refine Your Craft & Voice: Receive page-specific feedback that strengthens your dialogue, deepens character development, tightens narrative structure, enhances poetic language, clarifies your voice, or improves plot and pacing.
• Follow Through & Gain Self-Confidence: End each creative writing coaching session with clear, manageable action items that maintain progress between meetings and prevent backsliding.
• Reach Your Audience: Navigate the publishing landscape with an insider's perspective. Your creative writing consultant can support you at any stage of your journey, from crafting compelling query letters for agents, to submitting stories and poems to literary magazines, to preparing residency and fellowship applications.
• Achieve Your Writing Goals: Whether it's finishing a manuscript, improving specific skills, or navigating your creative or intellectual evolution, we provide the expert writing guidance and mentorship you need.

Our creative writing coaching services combine supportive mentorship with professional critique. Sessions typically involve discussing progress, setting achievable goals, working through creative or structural challenges, receiving targeted feedback on pages (as agreed upon with your coach), and practicing effective writing and revision strategies.

Your Gilliam creative writing coach might help you break through creative blocks using specific exercises, develop richer character backstories, find your unique narrative voice, turn your novel into a page-turner, or expand your understanding of lyricism in poetry.

Between sessions, they remain available for brief email exchanges to keep your momentum going.

The best creative writing coaches (and ours are the best) provide invaluable expertise that can save you years of trial and error—even if your goals are focused only on personal growth, rather than professional advancement as an author.

Our faculty’s coaching and consulting rates start at $85 per hour, reflecting their prestigious publications (novels, poetry collections, memoirs), advanced degrees (MFAs in Creative Writing and PhDs in literature), and university teaching experience.

During your complimentary 15-minute Consultation Call, we'll discuss which creative writing consultant’s background and rate best align with your needs.

GWG’s Enrollment Managers will pair you directly with an accomplished professional whose real-world success represents the highest levels of creative and literary achievement.

Our faculty and emeritus faculty includes Rhodes Scholars who have published with major presses, cultural critics leading prestigious magazines (e.g., the Editor-in-Chief of Bookforum), and former English department chairs from top universities.

Their creative writing and poetry appears in legacy publications like The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and The Atlantic, and their award-winning books and novels have been published by presses such as Simon Schuster, Penguin Random House, and Macmillan.

Our faculty have also taught literature and creative writing at elite institutions throughout the US, from Iowa Writers’ Workshop, to Cornell University, to the University of Chicago—yet, thanks to GWG, their teaching reaches beyond the small number of students who are admitted to those programs.

Every creative writing coach hirable through GWG is skilled at translating their expertise into actionable guidance for writers at all levels of craft, and all stages of project development.

Unlike editing services that fix only what's on the page, our creative writing coaching service helps you develop your unique voice and style as an author.

Our approach is deeply personalized, collaborative, and process-oriented. We support you in building core skills and habits that will stand the test of time, giving you the tools you need to tackle any future literary endeavor.

In other words, this is more than just editing or tutoring—it's a dedicated partnership with a creative writing mentor who has achieved real-world literary and academic success.

Schedule a free, 15-minute Consultation Call with a Gilliam Writers Group Enrollment Manager below. They'll connect you with a creative writing coach for hire whose publication credits and teaching experience can smooth your own path as a writer.

Unsure if our online creative writing coaching & consulting services fit your needs? During your Consultation Call, we'll honestly assess whether our approach aligns with your goals and working style—no pressure, no obligation.