The Gilliam Writers Group is committed to providing actionable, practical feedback that helps every client become a better writer, no matter their training or goals. Learning how to write for AI, whether for business or creative purposes, can spell the difference between generating a valuable, time-saving output and receiving a sub-optimal response that creates more work for you in the long run.

To this end, our prompt engineer classes offer not only tips and technical support, but a collaborative, participatory learning experience for the student. GWG’s faculty take a hands-on approach to teaching prompt engineering. Meeting on Zoom and Google Docs simultaneously allows us to engage with written text in a uniquely tactile, organic way; using shared digital documents, we can shift seamlessly between dialogue and demonstration, idea and experiment, critique and revision.

During our lessons, you’ll also gain extensive hands-on experience with various cutting-edge Large Language Models (LLMs), including ChatGPT, Gemini, and more. In this way, you’ll learn prompt engineering online in real time, testing prompts, discussing results with your instructor, and refining your approaches toward the desired output.

If you’re still feeling uncertain (or excited!) about the logistics of a one-on-one prompt engineering course online with the Gilliam Writers Group, we invite you to schedule a free consultation call. One of our Enrollment Managers will be happy to answer any questions you may have.

Whether you are new to AI technology or well-versed in how AI can be used to generate the most accurate and relevant outputs for your particular field, we hope you’ll consider an online prompt engineering class with a trained GWG faculty member. 

In our one-on-one prompt engineering lessons, you and your instructor will unpack the vocabulary, concepts, and methods behind this fast-evolving skill set, ensuring that you learn AI prompt engineering in a way that is both personally effective and compliant with best practices in the field. The more thoroughly our instructors get to know you as an individual, the more precisely and impactfully we can apply our expertise to your writing – a process that mirrors how AI algorithms produce more accurate results as they process more data over time. 

Is learning prompt engineering really worth it? We believe it is, because to master prompt engineering, you have to master the art and science of writing itself. Prompt engineering is an increasingly invaluable skill that depends on the same foundational principles of writing that we’ve been teaching our clients for years – principles that remain unchanged as technology evolves.

The Gilliam Writers Group faculty is composed of highly trained writers, expert editors, and experienced prompt engineering writing consultants. Scroll through our team page and you’ll see graduate degrees in writing and literature from the country’s top MFA and PhD programs; years of professional experience in the publishing industry, media, business, and education; and strong track records of literary publication. 

Writing by our faculty and emeritus faculty appears in top publications including Slate, The New Yorker, The New York Times, Bookforum, Artforum, CNN Opinions, Granta, Foreign Policy, JSTOR Daily, Vice, Longreads, Al Jazeera, The New York Review of Books, Electric Lit, The Rumpus, Catapult, Los Angeles Review of Books, Food & Wine, and more. 

We have also been published by Simon and Schuster and Penguin Random House, among other presses large and small, and have earned multiple awards and prizes for our fiction, poetry, and criticism.

Before hiring an online prompt engineering instructor through the Gilliam Writers Group, we invite you to request a writing sample from their portfolio. That way, you can experience for yourself the exceptional combination of talent and training our team has to offer. 

To connect for prompt engineering courses planned by the Gilliam Writers Group faculty, we invite you to first schedule a free, 15-minute consultation call with a representative from our company’s leadership team.

During this phone call, we’ll guide you through a series of standardized questions about your background, experience, and goals, taking detailed notes on your responses. These notes will form the basis of your client brief – an internal document central to GWG’s client-instructor matching process. The client brief ensures that we can help you find a prompt engineering class and instructor to suit your particular needs and preferences. After answering any lingering questions, your representative will conclude the call and email you two important documents. 

First, you’ll receive our new client onboarding brochure, a PDF containing useful resources including a list of best practices, contact information for everyone on our leadership team, and the link to a feedback form you can submit at any point during your work with the Gilliam Writers Group. Second, you will receive a link to our service agreement (fillable online). We co-sign this form with all new clients to establish clear terms of engagement and, above all, to protect your interests – for example, to legally bind ourselves to nondisclosure. You can later dissolve this agreement at any time, for any reason, with just 24 hours’ notice.

Within 24 hours of your consultation call, your newly assigned prompt engineering instructor will reach out via email and text to schedule the first session of your package.

At this point, they’ll already have a clear sense of your background, needs, and preferred meeting schedule; it is our policy to always read a new client’s brief before making contact. This mitigates redundancy in GWG’s onboarding process; as you establish communication with your business writing coach, you won’t need to rehash the basics of your interest in online business writing classes, for example, or the personality profile of your ideal business writing helper. Your coach will already be in the loop.

Our prompt engineering courses online take place on Zoom and Google Docs, and emphasize guided, real-time practice combined with immediate feedback.

The structure of your first session will depend largely on your particular needs and the discernment of your instructor; there is no standard formula, though most such meetings are necessarily focused on gathering information, assessing the client’s writing and goals, and developing a plan of action. Your assigned faculty member will devise a plan for learning important concepts in prompt engineering, experimenting with prompts, and refining results to your satisfaction.

The Gilliam Writers Group is primarily an online company; however, if you’re interested in setting up an in-person prompt engineering class near you, pleasecontact us. In certain cases, we may be able to offer a professional AI prompt writing course in NYC, which is home to a large part of our community.

If you find that you and your instructor aren’t a match, or you decide to work with other GWG faculty in the future, our leadership team can support you in choosing a different online writing consultant.

Before matching you with another faculty member, we will usually suggest that you first tell your coach as clearly as possible what you believe is missing in your work together. Open, honest dialogue is essential to the service we offer; all GWG coaches possess strong interpersonal skills, but none of us can read minds.

If clear communication does not yield the hoped-for results, or you no longer want to work with your coach for any reason, just let our leadership team know. We’ll initiate a new, more streamlined client-instructor matching process, supplementing your original client brief (the one created during your initial consultation call) with updated information to reflect both your progress and the reasons you are pausing work with your previous instructor.