155 Best Fiction Creative Writing Classes in 2025

This seminar focuses on time manipulation in storytelling, providing techniques to craft engaging narratives. Participants will engage in exercises to generate their own time-bending stories and leave with two pieces of writing. The course explores the history of time travel stories and offers insights into enhancing narrative structure.

As our reality becomes more of a dystopia, you may wonder what counts as fantasy anymore. Collapse, resurrection, and everything in between are entirely possible. The absurd has become a part of the everyday, be it a head popping out of a toilet or slugs that change their sex. This class will explore the fantastical, uncanny, scientific/technological, and fiction that otherwise tests the bounds of human reality.

This class will explore the principles of (Western) narrative construction and how these principles/techniques can be used in both fiction and non-fiction/memoir. We will base the class on readings made available to the participants, including work by ZZ Packer, Gish Jen, Junot Diaz, Jhumpa Lahiri, Garrett Hongo.

Welcome to the brand new second edition of Secret Sauce Of Great Writing, a program that will show you how it's possible to upgrade your business writing, blog writing and copywriting skills to that level extremely fast. In this course, Shani will introduce you to the fundamental four ingredients of exceptional writing. In as little as an hour, you'll know exactly how to apply this "secret sauce" to your own writing—putting you way ahead of other writers in your profession or industry.

Some of the best works of fiction and nonfiction were crafted in a writer's workshop. This online course will help you write your own creative piece. Like a true writing workshop, you will learn literary techniques, peer review a classmate's work, and receive constructive criticism on your work.

Have you always wanted to be a writer? Don't let doubt or fear get the best of you—take a chance and learn how to start writing a book, novel, short story, memoir, or essay. When you take this online writing course, you'll discover your voice, learn the basics of grammar and examine the different types of writing.

In this course, we'll learn and practice the tried-and-true elements of fiction—style, voice, character, narrative, dialogue, point of view, and revision—with an emphasis on the short story form. Classes will include discussions on various elements of craft and close readings of essays on writing and published stories.

Writing a TV pilot is a tall order for anyone and without firm footing, your feet are as good as clay. In this one-day structure clinic, TV writer Alicia Carroll (Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist, Film Independent: Project Involve & Women In Film Fellow) will help you apply the toolset of the scribe to root your story in a clearly defined genre, give it a rock-solid spine and compelling arcs that launch your pilot firmly into series.

A first draft is a rough block of marble: there's a work of art in there, but to find it you're going to need some specialist tools. Over twelve weeks with an experienced editor and leading literary agent, learn the skills to turn your rough draft into an accomplished novel that captures the reader's attention from the start and satisfies it at the end.

How do we ignite the spark of a story to fire up a fully-realised novel? What are the key decisions we need to consider when writing long form prose fiction? This course will dive into story-telling possibilities and explore the ‘big picture’ questions all novelists need to know, equipping writers with extensive knowledge of novel writing techniques and the confidence to get that book started.

A short play is a fantastic way of quickly getting your writing in front of people to entertain, inform and present your skills. Through this course, you will learn how to examine ideas to find the story and develop them into scenes.

So, how do you write a play? This is a fun and practical creative writing course designed to get YOU excited about creating your own original plays and give you the confidence you need to get them produced.