A small school for people who write at work
Lyceum started in 2021 as one writing cohort of twelve people in Chicago. It is still small on purpose: four instructors, forty seats a cohort, and an editor on every draft.
The Lyceum was a place to walk and talk in small groups
Aristotle’s school in Athens met in a covered walk. People learned by talking a problem through with a few others and a teacher who pushed back. We took the name because that is still the best way we know to get better at writing.
Videos are good at explaining a rule. They cannot tell you that your second paragraph buries the ask. So every Lyceum course is live, every group is six people, and every draft comes back with line edits.
Five years, in numbers we can check
2021
First cohort, twelve people in Chicago
29
Cohorts taught by four instructors
944
Students who finished a cohort
91%
Handed in all six drafts, last three cohorts
Three rules we do not bend
The next cohort of Writing that gets read starts October 20
Forty seats, a group of six, line edits on every draft. Applications take five minutes and most students expense it.
Live cohort courses in writing and speaking for people who do it at work. Small groups, line edits, six weeks at a time.
Taught live from Chicago, Austin, Portland and Seattle
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