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Best Essay Creative Writing Classes in 2023

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This directory of creative writing courses will help you find the right class for you. Simply filter by genre, price, and location to find the writing class that best fits your needs.

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Writing Sprints is an exercise-intensive course designed to “unstick” writers struggling to start or continue new projects, boosting writing productivity. The course relies heavily on writing exercises (for both fiction & nonfiction writers). Students will produce a ton of new work in this class, and receive feedback on that work from the instructor and his or her classmates.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Online

Categories: Essay

Level: Any

Class size: 10

Price: $550.00

Start date: June, 2023

Website: https://sackettworkshop.com/writing/2022/11/05/8-week-onl...


Writing Sprints is an exercise-intensive course designed to “unstick” writers struggling to start or continue new projects, boosting writing productivity. The course relies heavily on writing exercises (for both fiction & nonfiction writers). Students will produce a ton of new work in this class, and receive feedback on that work from the instructor and his or her classmates.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: New York

Categories: Essay

Level: Any

Class size: 10

Price: $600.00

Start date: May, 2023

Website: https://sackettworkshop.com/writing/2023/01/04/8-wk-in-pe...

Creative Writing Academy

Georgetown University


Transform your dreams, ideas, and stories into organized, compelling, creative written works with lectures by renowned literary figures from around the D.C. area, dynamic courses with Georgetown graduate student instructors, and insightful, productive feedback from your peers.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Washington

Categories: Essay

Level: Any

Class size: Limited

Price: $3,225.00

Start date: Open all year round

Website: https://summer.georgetown.edu/programs/SHS07/creative-wri...

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Join us for six months of craft lessons, workshops, editor visits, and personal editorial feedback! This small and inclusive class meets weekly, alternating between live Zoom sessions and asynchronous lessons, with the goal of creating an intimate, writer-based community of essayists who learn and grow together.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Washington

Categories: Essay

Level: Beginner

Class size: Limited

Price: $2,500.00

Start date: January, 2023

Website: https://www.writer.org/event/personal-essays-intensive/


As we tailor every course personally to the particular writer, each creative writing course is tailored explicitly to you and what you want to write and achieve. However, we base all the courses on the same underlying course structure: 1 one-hour introductory session; 8 one-hour tutorial sessions; and 6 months between the introductory session and the final tutorial session.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: London

Categories: Essay

Level: Any

Class size: Private

Price: £2,100.00

Start date: Open all year round

Website: https://www.inkacademy.co.uk/creative-writing-course/

Crafting the Essay: Individually-Paced Format

John Hopkins Center for Talented Youth


Bring your experiences to life on the page in this personal essay course. Through 10 assignments, we’ll experiment with different essay formats to describe scenes, illustrate conflicts, narrate events, share memories, and extract meaning for yourself and your readers.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Online

Categories: Essay

Level: Beginner

Class size: Unlimited

Price: $1,399.00

Start date: Open all year round

Website: https://cty.jhu.edu/programs/online/courses/crafting-the-...

Creative Writing Summer School

Manchester Writing School


The course will introduce you to tutors and current students and offer opportunities to develop your own writing – and reading – in a lively and supportive environment. The programme will include a choice of in-person or online masterclass workshops, seminars and talks, delivered by practising writers and critics, with input from special guests.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Manchester

Categories: Essay

Level: Beginner

Course length: 2 days (Full day)

Class size: Limited

Price: £250.00

Start date: Open all year round

Website: https://www.mmu.ac.uk/english/courses/short/creative/#sum...

Freelancing the Feature

University of Toronto


This course is designed to help you create high-quality, long-form journalism for newspapers and magazines, both traditional and digital. You'll acquire the tools to craft compelling feature-length articles and learn how to pitch your best ideas.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Toronto

Categories: Essay

Level: Beginner

Course length: 8 sessions (2.5 hours)

Class size: Limited

Price: $649.00

Start date: Open all year round

Website: https://learn.utoronto.ca/programs-courses/courses/1722-f...

Creative Writing: Introduction

University of Toronto


If you're just getting started as a writer and haven't yet decided on a literary direction, this course gives you the opportunity to try a number of different genres. Half of each class is devoted to a workshop. The other half is devoted to discussing an aspect of literary technique.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Toronto

Categories: Essay

Level: Beginner

Course length: 8 sessions (2.5 hours)

Class size: Limited

Price: $599.00

Start date: Open all year round

Website: https://learn.utoronto.ca/programs-courses/courses/1664-c...


The class will include in-depth workshops of student writing, discussions on the art of the personal essay, and readings of works in the genre, including but not limited to pieces by Matthew Salesses, Jerald Walker, Roxane Gay, and more.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Boston

Categories: Essay

Level: Intermediate

Course length: 8 sessions (3 hours)

Class size: 12

Price: $530.00

Start date: November, 2023

Website: https://grubstreet.org/findaclass/class/developing-your-p...

Narrative

Manchester Writing


The Narrative course covers nonfiction and fiction story writing. Topics include plot development, effective openings, character development, active/passive voice, detailed descriptions, sentence variety, and effective verb use. The aim of the course is to make the students better storytellers, and in so doing also make them more insightful readers.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Manchester

Categories: Essay

Level: Beginner

Course length: 5 sessions (2.25 hours)

Class size: 12

Price: $525.00

Start date: Open all year round

Website: https://www.manchesterwriting.com/

Essay and Debate

Manchester Writing


The Essay and Debate course covers the art of persuasive argument. Students learn how to develop a thesis and how to use evidence to back up their point of view. They will learn how to write effective introductory, body, and concluding paragraphs, and more.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Manchester

Categories: Essay

Level: Beginner

Course length: 5 sessions (2.25 hours)

Class size: 12

Price: $525.00

Start date: Open all year round

Website: https://www.manchesterwriting.com/

How to choose a essay writing class

Looking to build your writing skillset, learn more about your genre, or finally finish that essay you’ve been working on? You’re in the right place. That’s why we built this directory of the best writing courses.

However, creative writing classes aren’t one size fit all. If you’re planning to join a essay writing class in particular, you’ll want to make sure that it matches what you’re seeking to learn about essay writing.

So make sure to consider the following questions when you’re researching essay writing courses:

  • Who is the instructor? How many years of experience do they have in essay writing?
  • Is there something in particular you’d like to learn about essay writing? Does this course include it?
  • How long is the course, and where is it taught?
  • How much does the essay writing course cost? Does it fit into your budget?

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