129 Best Book Creative Writing Classes in 2024

Each writer completing the four-day intensive will come away with a captivating hook, a serviceable proposal, a deeper understanding of publishing houses, editors and agents; a template for navigating the submission manuscript process; and connections to a broader writing community.

In this workshop, we’ll do exercises to identify your core strengths, themes, narrative building blocks, and values. Then we’ll explore how those elements define you as a writer, what they imply about your writing from character arcs to genre, and how to use this knowledge to generate new ideas that play to your strengths.

Are you interested in writing and submitting fiction to both “literary” and “speculative” markets? This webinar will cover submission practices and expectations for both fields, and will discuss key differences and similarities.

Your book cover is a crucial marketing asset, and it can often make or break a sale to a curious reader. In this class, award-winning illustrator Grace P. Fong gives students the tools needed to find and communicate effectively with artists so they can bring your story to life.

Trilogies seem to dominate sci-fi and fantasy series, both on the screen and on the page. However, writing a trilogy isn’t quite as simple as extending the principle of the three act structure. Fonda Lee presents an in-depth examination of how to plan and write trilogies.

In this course, a professional librarian will teach you basic and advanced techniques to carry out research online, with a focus on free tools and resources.

Do you have a pile of abandoned story drafts or poems? One quarter of a memoir or novel manuscript that you're still not sure what to do with? In this generative class, we'll act as gardeners, using those old drafts as compost to create fertile ground for new pieces.

Join literary agent and author Eric Smith for this 3-hour workshop on writing query letters, the first step toward getting your manuscript published. Whether you’re writing fiction or non-fiction, this three-hour workshop will cover all the basics and dig into complex questions.

In this talk, we’ll explore the craft of writing fiction that doesn’t move—fiction contained in a single, discreet space as large as a house, and as small as a bed—and the implication it has for our understanding of gender, characterization, plot, and time.

A 2-hour session dedicated to processing and reckoning with the notion of "giving up" on a story, on a project, on a dream. What does "giving up" really look like in practice—what does it mean? And when might it actually be the right thing for us to do?

Trace the roots of the horror genre and begin crafting a story of your own. In this seminar, award-winning author and lifelong horror fan Nino Cipri will guide students through the process of writing horror, from generating ideas to the final revision and submission process.

In this seminar, we will read writing samples Karen Bender, Jim Shepard, Zadie Smith, Lucia Berlin, and Raymond Carver, which exemplify the ways work influences our characters' lives, decisions, and perceptions. We will also write together from an extended prompt which brings the work-a-day world into our stories.