Abstract
In the post-revolution Czech Republic, the democratization processes in culture coupled with a social orientation towards the West gradually led to the first creative writing seminars in academia. The field developed in the United States as an experiment in the education of American English majors.
The im- pression that this discipline left behind abroad was applied to Czech post-revolutionary literary cul- ture. The result was a fragmented and piecemeal approach to education.
The period under review is the post-revolutionary years up to 2015, when the Literary Academy, the first (and to date the last) universi- ty to offer MFA programmes in creative writing, closed down. However, the history of Czech academic creative writing is varied and certainly does not revolve solely around Josef Škvorecký's private universi- ty.
The question is, what attitudes emerged within the academic community, and how did this imported concept manage to work within the existing scholarly and literary cultural tradition?