Definition of "writing-school" [writing-school]

• A school or an academy where handwriting or calligraphy is taught. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "It was followed by equally satirical mini-masterpieces, notably the demolition of the “Famous Writers” racket, in which supposed men of letters like Bennett Cerf put their names to a rip-off writing-school scheme, and by “Checks and Balances at the Sign of the Dove,” certainly the finest revenge ever taken by a customer on a pretentious restaurant."
• "Edwin Frank: I'm not sure, in any case, that Dreiser's famously lousy style isn't a virtue, even the main virtue of his work; that it isn't precisely in the ragged texture of his text -- rather than the well-observed concrete particulars that modern-day journalism and writing-school students are alike taught to gather like posies mostly missing from Dreiser's work -- that the reality of whatever his realism may be emerges."
• "I have not been to a writing-school, nor yet gone thro 'a regular course of Copy-lines at home."