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Best Creative Writing Classes in Austin

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This flash writing workshop is built for writers at any point in their journey who want to focus on creating a batch of short pieces in either fiction or creative nonfiction – or both! There is an amazing abundance of short writing being published in print and online. This course is designed to take part in this conversation.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Austin

Categories: Short Story

Level: Any

Course length: Est. 8 weeks (Self-paced with asynchronous teaching)

Class size: Unlimited

Price: $495.00

Start date: Open all year round

Website: https://writingworkshops.com/products/online-short-form-w...

Introduction to Personal Essay

Austin Writing Workshops


Without guidance, writing narrative about your own life can be daunting. People often worry, Is it really ok to admit to things I'm not supposed to have done or felt? What if my boss reads it? What if I hurt someone's feelings? What if my memory of events doesn't line up with someone else's memory? This class will explore those questions and others.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Austin

Categories: Essay

Level: Any

Course length: Est. 8 weeks (Self-paced with asynchronous teaching)

Class size: Unlimited

Price: $495.00

Start date: January, 2023

Website: https://writingworkshops.com/products/8-week-online-intro...


In this course, you will explore the art of fiction writing and learn how to craft compelling and engaging stories. No matter your experience level, we will cover the fundamentals of fiction writing, including character development, plot structure, dialogue, setting, and point of view.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Austin

Categories: Short Story

Level: Any

Course length: Est. 8 weeks (Self-paced with asynchronous teaching)

Class size: Unlimited

Price: $495.00

Start date: Open all year round

Website: https://writingworkshops.com/products/8-week-online-intro...

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Finding Your Voice

Austin Writing Workshops


In this course, we'll work on discovering your unique voice and encourage it to come out on the page in the form of personal essays and poems. After all, you've spent a lot of years focusing on getting ahead, building a career, and guiding others on their journeys. Now it's time for YOU! This six-week workshop will examine a variety of highly effective skills and practices designed to reignite your passion for writing and help you tap into your voice while discovering new ideas on the page.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Austin

Categories: Fiction, Essay, Poetry

Level: Any

Course length: Est. 6 weeks (Self-paced with asynchronous teaching)

Class size: Unlimited

Price: $495.00

Start date: Open all year round

Website: https://writingworkshops.com/products/finding-your-voice-...

Writing Essays About Travel & Food

Austin Writing Workshops


In this class, we’ll talk about combining “food” and “place” into compelling stories. The "place" you write about can be as accessible as your hometown. You will also have the option to write from memory, maybe even profile that chef you've always had a crush on. And you can do it all from the comfort of your home.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Austin

Categories: Essay, Travel, Food

Level: Any

Course length: Est. 4 weeks (Self-paced with asynchronous teaching)

Class size: Unlimited

Price: $259.00

Start date: Open all year round

Website: https://writingworkshops.com/products/writing-about-our-t...


How do we use the details of a scene to enrich a story or deepen a character? Can they help us truly see that character’s world? And can details help us see subtle shifts of growth and action? This workshop will help you move a character through a scene in a way that enriches your writing and develops your character in clear but unexpected ways.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Austin

Categories: Fiction

Level: Any

Course length: 1 session (3 hours)

Class size: 35

Price: $75.00

Start date: Open all year round

Website: https://thewritingbarn.com/class/seeing-characters-and-th...


No more just the facts, ma’am. Get ready to re-conceptualize your nonfiction manuscript. Discover how the perfect premise and the elements of voice and point of view can suggest a structure that elevates nonfiction to art.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Austin

Categories: Nonfiction

Level: Any

Course length: 1 session (1.5 hours)

Class size: 100

Price: $25.00

Start date: April, 2023

Website: https://thewritingbarn.com/class/the-art-of-nonfiction-wr...


The struggle with comedic writing is not only finding what you actually want to say, but how to use comedy as a vehicle to deliver that message. In this course, we’ll focus on marrying the art of personal essay writing with comedic storytelling and letting each complement the other.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Austin

Categories: Comedy, Essay

Level: Any

Course length: 1 module (Self-paced)

Class size: Unlimited

Price: $10.00

Start date: Open all year round

Website: https://austinbatcave.org/product/writing-comedic-persona...


In this class, we’ll explore building plots that feel organic and without contrivance by focusing on characters, their decisions, their actions, and the consequences that arise from these. Characters drive plots, and we’ll spend our time examining exactly how.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Austin

Categories: Fiction, Adult

Level: Any

Course length: 1 module (Self-paced)

Class size: Unlimited

Price: $10.00

Start date: Open all year round

Website: https://austinbatcave.org/product/fiction-suffering-conse...

Serial Poetics

Austin Bat Cave


The serial poem or poem in sequence provides us with a rich opportunity to move our work as writers forward, either as an apotheosis of your work to this point or as a means to push your writing practice into a sense of newness. We’ll be working through these building blocks of craft as well as more advanced techniques, conceptual considerations, and histories of serial poetics.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Austin

Categories: Poetry

Level: Any

Course length: 1 module (Self-paced)

Class size: Unlimited

Price: $10.00

Start date: Open all year round

Website: https://austinbatcave.org/product/serial-poetry/

Flash Fiction

Austin Bat Cave


What makes fiction flash fiction? Is it just a matter of length, or is it a matter of urgency, whimsy, deadliness? This seminar is open to writers with all levels of experience, from beginners to fiction veterans. We will look at a brief history of the style, reviewing its origins and examining work by the writers Diane Williams, Vi Khi Nao, Russell Edson, and more.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Austin

Categories: Short Story

Level: Any

Course length: 1 module (Self-paced)

Class size: Unlimited

Price: $10.00

Start date: Open all year round

Website: https://austinbatcave.org/product/flash-fiction-hilary-le...

Write Club

Austin Public Library


The Austin Public Library invites you to a series of workshops that will teach you the basics of writing for various genres and purposes.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Austin

Categories: Book, Fiction, Essay, Poetry, Nonfiction, Short Story, Book, Free

Level: Any

Course length: 1 session (1 hour)

Class size: Unlimited

Price: Free

Start date: Open all year round

Website: https://library.austintexas.gov/events/writing

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