Free Consult Information

Start a conversation about your writing that matters.

 

All Individual Consult Group (ICG) consults begin with a free, fifteen minute conference call with Attic Institute of Arts and Letters president David Biespiel. The conference call is designed to help you get answers quickly about Attic offerings, how you might get unstuck with your project, and how to get helpful feedback about your interests, questions, and needs.

After this initial call, writers sometimes register for a workshop or set up a formal Introductory Consult, which is the next step in the ICG process to pair you up with a writing coach or editor selected specifically for your project and to determine whether a Read, Review, and Strategize Consult or an Advanced Consult is best for your goals.

How it works: To initiate a free consult, e-mail us — and when you do, please let us know specifically what you're working on and want to discuss. Then we'll get back in touch and begin to talk together about your writing.

 

 Introductory Consult  |  Read, Review, and Strategize Consult

Advanced Consult  |  Small Projects Consult

 

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A Statement of Our Values

The Attic Institute of Arts and Letters opposes the legitimation of bigotry, hate, and misinformation. As a studio for writers, we do not tolerate harassment or discrimination of any kind. We embrace and celebrate our shared pursuit of literature and languages as essential to crossing the boundaries of difference. To that end, we seek to maintain a creative environment in which every employee, faculty member, and student feels safe, respected, and comfortable — even while acknowledging that poems, stories, and essays delve into uncomfortable subjects. We accept the workshop as a place to question ourselves and to empathize with complex identities. We understand that to know the world is to write the world. Therefore, we reaffirm our commitment to literary pursuits and shared understanding by affirming diversity and open inquiry.