Human teaching. Human feedback. Writer-owned drafts.
Talty Literary exists to support writers, not to replace the writer’s voice, judgment, or labor.
We recognize that many writers distrust generative AI for fair reasons. Writers are rightly concerned about originality, copyright, voice, authorship, and what happens to drafts shared in workshops. This policy is designed to protect student manuscripts, instructor materials, and the trust required for serious writing classes.
Your Work Remains Yours
Participants retain all rights to the drafts, notes, exercises, submissions, and manuscripts they create or submit. Talty Literary does not claim ownership of participant writing.
Human Teaching And Human Feedback
Talty Literary does not use generative AI to write, rewrite, rank, score, evaluate, or generate feedback on participant manuscripts. Feedback in Talty Literary classes should come from human instructors, human peers, and clearly stated workshop methods.
No Uploading Other People’s Work To AI
Participants, instructors, staff, contractors, and volunteers may not upload another person’s draft, manuscript, workshop submission, instructor packet, private class material, chat transcript, or recording to any AI system.
Student AI Use In Their Own Work
Talty Literary does not want to police a writer’s private drafting life, but workshop participation depends on honesty and fit. For manuscript workshops, mentorships, and feedback-based classes, submitted work should be substantially written by the participant, and AI-generated creative passages should be disclosed if they are present. Instructors may set stricter rules for a specific class.
Administrative Use
Talty Literary may use software tools, including AI-assisted tools, for ordinary business administration such as scheduling, internal planning, public marketing drafts, catalog organization, and non-private website copy. Talty Literary should not put private student manuscripts, peer drafts, instructor-only materials, private recordings, or sensitive participant data into AI systems without explicit, project-specific consent.
Recordings And Transcripts
Course pages must say whether a session is recorded. For manuscript workshops, live-only is the safest default. If a class is recorded, participants should be told before registration, replay access should be defined, and private manuscript discussion should be handled carefully.
Course Page Notice
Standard manuscript workshop notice: This class uses human teaching and human feedback. Talty Literary does not use generative AI to evaluate, rewrite, or generate feedback on participant manuscripts. Participants may not upload peer drafts, instructor materials, recordings, transcripts, or private class materials to AI tools.