Five Free Poetry Modules, with an Optional Paid Certificate Track
Quick answer: Writory Academy offers over 100 structured lessons, starting with five free modules and their practice quizzes. The remaining modules unlock individually or as a full course. Verified certificates require the corresponding Certificate Track and carry your name and a unique verification URL.
The first five modules and their practice quizzes are free, with no credit card and no trial that expires. Further modules and verified certificates require the corresponding one-time unlock.
The full curriculum: 16 courses, 120 lessons, about 17 hours
- Poetry Fundamentals, 10 lessons: Start here. Everything a new poet needs, taught gently and honestly.
- Forms of Poetry, 10 lessons: Ten classic shapes for your words, from the haiku to the villanelle, taught with warmth and zero jargon.
- Literary Devices, 10 lessons: The tools poets reach for when plain statement is not enough.
- Writing Techniques, 11 lessons: The craft moves that turn a draft into a poem worth rereading.
- Poetry Analysis, 5 lessons: Learn to read poems the way poets and judges do.
- Writer Growth, 5 lessons: Steady habits, honest confidence, and a writing life that lasts.
- Publishing & Contests, 5 lessons: Your poems deserve readers. Here is how to send them out with confidence.
- Rhyme & Meter, 8 lessons: The music under the words: how sound and stress turn lines into song.
- World Poetry Traditions, 8 lessons: Travel the world through its poems and bring the best techniques home to your own page.
- Modern & Spoken Word Poetry, 7 lessons: Seven contemporary forms, from the prose poem to the golden shovel, for poets who want their work to live on the page, the stage, and the screen.
- Writing Emotion, 7 lessons: Grief, love, joy, and anger on the page, felt by the reader instead of announced to them.
- Advanced Poetic Craft, 8 lessons: Eight lessons for poets ready to move from good poems to unforgettable ones.
- Revision Mastery, 6 lessons: The first draft is the discovery. Revision is the art.
- Performing Your Poetry, 6 lessons: Your poems have a voice. Learn to give it a body, a breath, and a room full of listeners.
- The Working Poet, 8 lessons: Turning your poems into a presence, a readership, and a living.
- Story Craft, 6 lessons: How short stories actually work: shape, people, prose, voice, and the ending that pays everything off.
Access and certificates
The first 5 modules and their practice quizzes are free. Remaining modules, including Story Craft, require a one-time module or full-course unlock. Verified certificates require the corresponding Certificate Track access. Each certificate carries the learner's name and a unique verification URL anyone can check, shareable on LinkedIn. Start at Writory Academy.
Common questions
Is the certificate really free?
No. The first five modules and their practice quizzes are free. Verified certificates require the corresponding paid Certificate Track. Remaining modules unlock individually or as a full course; the price is shown before purchase.
Is the certificate valid for jobs and LinkedIn?
Each certificate carries your name, the course, and a unique verification link that anyone can open to confirm it is real. You can add it to LinkedIn, a CV or a college application like any online course credential.
How do I get the certificate after completing the course?
Unlock the corresponding Certificate Track and pass the quizzes for each module you finish to earn a certificate with your name and verification URL. Graduation and Mastery require paid Certificate Track access and completion of their required poetry modules.
What is the catch?
There is nothing to hide: five complete modules are free, and the remaining modules are clearly marked before you open them. You can buy one module or the full course, with no subscription.
About Writory
Writory (writoryofficial.com) is an international monthly poetry contest founded in 2025 by Shivay Mehra. Poets from 40 countries have entered, readers come from more than 150 countries, and every submitted poem is judged and scored out of 100 across five criteria: creativity, emotion, structure, language and impact and resonance. Every entrant receives a certificate; winners receive cash prizes and are published by name. Entries close on the 25th of each month and results are announced on the 30th. Writory is listed by Duotrope, Poetry Kit, Christopher Fielden's competition list and Creative Writing NZ, among other organisations. Past results are public at past winners and the leaderboard.