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Best Creative Writing Classes in Denver

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Screenwriting Staycation Weekend

Lighthouse Writers Workshop


Spend the weekend with us in this in-person/zoom hybrid event as we set out for a productive and joyful year of screenwriting with timed writing sprints, goal setting workshops, instructor-led first blush readings, and helpful panels with industry experts ready to get us up to speed on what we need to do as a writers for our best writing year yet.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Denver

Categories: Screenplay

Level: Any

Course length: 2 sessions (8 hours)

Class size: Limited

Price: $415.00

Start date: November, 2023

Website: https://www.lighthousewriters.org/workshop/screenwriting-...

Poetry Workshop with Shane McCrae

Lighthouse Writers Workshop


After over a year of upheaval and transition, this workshop is oriented toward play and free exploration. The focus of the workshop is on generating new work. In this workshop, we'll consider contemporary poems as models for further experimentation.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Denver

Categories: Poetry

Level: Any

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

Class size: Limited

Price: $370.00

Start date: Open all year round

Website: https://www.lighthousewriters.org/workshop/8-week-poetry-...

Eight Weeks, Eight Starts

Lighthouse Writers Workshop


This generative course is an ideal fit for intermediate and advanced writers of prose at any point of their projects. Writers will leave the course with eight starts to eight new pieces of fiction or nonfiction, a deeper knowledge of craft, and some preliminary input and feedback designed to help lead writers further into the next phases of their projects' lives.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Denver

Categories: Fiction, Nonfiction

Level: Any

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

Class size: Limited

Price: $370.00

Start date: Open all year round

Website: https://www.lighthousewriters.org/workshop/8-week-eight-w...

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One of the strange things about poems is that they not only say things, they also do things. This class explores the fundamentals of how to do these odd, magical things, which have more in common with promises, blessings and vows than with any kind of descriptive writing, for they are actions, not objects.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Denver

Categories: Poetry

Level: Any

Course length: 4 sessions (2 hours)

Class size: Limited

Price: $240.00

Start date: November, 2023

Website: https://www.lighthousewriters.org/workshop/weekend-intens...

Novel Bootcamp I—Your Story

Lighthouse Writers Workshop


Writing a novel (or memoir) is a huge undertaking. Don’t worry; help is here. The “Bootcamp” is a four-part series of four-week workshops designed to help you get a handle on the process.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Denver

Categories: Book, Fiction

Level: Any

Course length: 1 session (2 hours)

Class size: Limited

Price: $240.00

Start date: Open all year round

Website: https://www.lighthousewriters.org/workshop/4-week-novel-b...

Introduction to Poetry and Storytelling

Lighthouse Writers Workshop


Podcasts and audio storytelling have become important pillars of the media industry. Communicating stories verbally and with added sounds or music is an ever-evolving art form, but the best audio stories—and interviews—come to life through a set of core skills. In this introductory class we’ll learn those skills.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Denver

Categories: Fiction

Level: Any

Course length: 1 session (2 hours)

Class size: Limited

Price: $240.00

Start date: Open all year round

Website: https://www.lighthousewriters.org/workshop/4-week-introdu...

Poetry in a Time of War

Lighthouse Writers Workshop


While in exile from the Nazis in 1939, Bertolt Brecht wrote, "In the dark times / will there also be singing? / Yes, there will also be singing. / About the dark times." We will investigate why poetry matters during such egregious times of war. We will read and think through iconic poems written during war times.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Denver

Categories: Poetry

Level: Any

Course length: 1 session (3 hours)

Class size: Limited

Price: $95.00

Start date: December, 2023

Website: https://www.lighthousewriters.org/workshop/poetry-time-wa...

Outsmarting Your Outlines

Lighthouse Writers Workshop


We all know—outlining your story is a drag. But what if it wasn't? How can we make outlining better for you, the writer (and, ultimately, your reader)? In this two-hour workshop, we'll discuss how to use outlining to help you ground spectacular circumstances to human conflicts, and how to allow readers greater access to your story and characters.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Denver

Categories: Fiction

Level: Any

Course length: 1 session (2 hours)

Class size: Limited

Price: $75.00

Start date: April, 2023

Website: https://www.lighthousewriters.org/workshop/outsmarting-yo...

Feng Shui for Writers

Lighthouse Writers Workshop


Writer’s block is no fun, whether you feel stuck in the beginning, mired in the middle, or somehow unable to stick the ending to your book. What’s in the way? Your living space holds clues and answers. The instructor for this course is a certified Feng Shui consultant.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Denver

Categories: Fiction

Level: Any

Course length: 1 session (2 hours)

Class size: Limited

Price: $75.00

Start date: January, 2023

Website: https://www.lighthousewriters.org/workshop/feng-shui-writ...


Ellen O’Clover, author of the upcoming, Seven Percent of Ro Devereux, leads this exciting workshop where writers will discuss what genre is, our favorite genres, and what categorizes a story as a particular genre. Then will pick one of 3 characters to craft a story placing their selected character in their selected genre.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Denver

Categories: Kids

Level: Any

Course length: 1 session (3 hours)

Class size: Unlimited

Price: $25.00

Start date: Open all year round

Website: http://www.denverwrites.org/workshops/

10-hour Write-A-Thon

Lighthouse Writers Workshop


Writers of all genres and experience levels are invited to join us for a 10-hour Write-a-Thon. Bring a snack for the potluck (no nuts please), and kick off your new year writing projects in style. We'll provide the coffee. No classes, no networking, no readings. Just writing!

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Denver

Categories: Fiction

Level: Any

Course length: 1 session (10 hours)

Class size: Limited

Price: $5.00

Start date: Open all year round

Website: https://www.lighthousewriters.org/workshop/10-hour-write-...

Hard Times Writing Workshop

Jefferson County Public Library


Telling our stories can often help process our life experiences and find new paths. This safe and supportive weekly writing workshop is free and open to all.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Denver

Categories: Fiction, Free

Level: Any

Course length: 1 session (2 hours)

Class size: Unlimited

Price: Free

Start date: Open all year round

Website: https://jeffcolibrary.bibliocommons.com/events/639bd94dbd...

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