Dear Prospective Student:

Welcome to the fulfillment of a lifelong dream, which could help your dream come true as well. Ever since I was a young writer, editor, and publisher, I have wanted to help budding writers get a head start and avoid all the detours I had to take. My old friend, Norman Rohrer, had the best program going – he taught writers via correspondence through his Christian Writers Guild.

A few years ago, when Norm was finally ready to get out from under the daily grind, we agreed I would buy the guild, supervise the rewriting of the basic course, add a few dozen more mentors like Norm, and try to put some real advertising muscle behind it to see if it would grow.

            We now teach nearly 2,000 writers via email, beginning with a 50-lesson, two-year course. We match students with a mentor – someone with years of writing, editing, and publishing experience. The goal is to give each student the tools necessary to keep him or her from the myriad missteps and pitfalls that can stall a writing career.

            We want to see you succeed, and that means getting you to the point where you can sell your work and see it published.

            I personally selected top people in their fields to help accomplish this task, from Operations Director Kerma Murray to Managing Editor Andy Scheer.

            We now offer instruction for adults through our Apprentice and Journeyman levels, as well as curricula for 9-12-year-olds (our Pages course) and 13-and-up (our Squires course). We also have a critique service where your work can be evaluated by experts.

The Christian Writers Guild also holds an annual conference at The Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs, where we have featured such renowned speakers and bestselling authors as Bruce Wilkinson, Francine Rivers, Anne Graham Lotz, Joni Eareckson Tada, Philip Yancey, Gloria Gaither, and Frank Peretti.

            We aim to restock the pool of Christian writers to bring the best to the craft for the 21^st Century. Let us teach you to write.

            Maybe I’m biased, but I think the writing life, especially in the service of Christ, is the best way to go. If you feel a nudge in the same direction, why not sign up today and come along?

Jerry B. Jenkins