Best Creative Writing Classes in Houston

The "Write Stuff" for 2023 continues to draw on themes such as success and failure, love and money, truth and lies, losses and wins, as well as the current contrast between the old and familiar versus the new and strange. Subscribing to Stephen King's advice: "Read a lot and write a lot" we stay close to our bookcases.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Houston

Categories: Book

Level: Any

Course length: 10 sessions (2 hours)

Class size: Limited

Price: $400.00

Start date: Open all year round

Website: https://www.wih.org/product/the-write-stuff-2/

This energetic, engaging creative writing class will name and examine the unique strengths of your prose. It will offer guidance to further texturize your work into full, developed projects by exploring the murky and extensive waters of fiction, memoir, non-fiction, and all the places in-between.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Houston

Categories: Fiction, Memoir, Essay

Level: Any

Course length: 8 sessions (3 hours)

Class size: Limited

Price: $330.00

Start date: Open all year round

Website: https://grackleandgrackle.com/product/variations-in-prose...

Poetry offers us a whole other category of literary pleasure: lyricism. How do poems accomplish the musical effects that reverberate in our hearts and minds? To address this question, we’ll talk trope and verse, sentence and syntax, meditation and narrative. Attention will be paid to the art of reading poetry aloud for a public audience.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Houston

Categories: Poetry

Level: Any

Course length: 6 sessions (3 hours)

Class size: Limited

Price: $315.00

Start date: Open all year round

Website: https://inprinthouston.org/event/poetry-2023-101-in-person/

Is writing an act of memory or discovery? How do we craft sentences whose truths feel fresh and urgent, yet also recognizable? Lyric truth can reside in either side of this tension—the question or the answer—in equal measure. In this class, we’ll discuss the craft elements of lyric truth, which often expands language away from that of factual truth or knowledge.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Houston

Categories: Essay, Nonfiction, Poetry, Fiction

Level: Any

Course length: 6 sessions (3 hours)

Class size: Limited

Price: $315.00

Start date: Open all year round

Website: https://inprinthouston.org/event/crafting-truth-2023-102-...

We all have a relationship to the world outside our bodies. This class will ask: “What does it mean to write about the outside?” in a multitude of ways. We will look at and write poems about nature, domesticity, entanglement urbanization, land politics, and geography.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Houston

Categories: Poetry

Level: Any

Course length: 6 sessions (3 hours)

Class size: Limited

Price: $280.00

Start date: Open all year round

Website: https://grackleandgrackle.com/product/the-forest-the-tree...

​Where does our inspiration come from? How do we dive into our own uniqueness to write the stories and poems that are uniquely our own? In this multi-genre, six-week course, we will consider these questions and others to help us better understand ourselves as narrative engines.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Houston

Categories: Fiction, Book, Poetry

Level: Any

Course length: 6 sessions (3 hours)

Class size: 15

Price: $270.00

Start date: Open all year round

Website: https://www.writespacehouston.org/creative-writing.html

In this writing workshop, every genre of writing is welcomed. Whether you are a beginning writer or an experienced one, you will benefit from this six-week study of several common elements of writing. These elements will include beginnings and endings, character development, selection of detail, tension, revelation/discovery, and revision.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Houston

Categories: Book

Level: Any

Course length: 6 sessions (1.75 hours)

Class size: Limited

Price: $240.00

Start date: Open all year round

Website: https://www.wih.org/product/creative-writing/

Let’s start with sentences. This is a sentence. This workshop will be about sentences. Only sentences. And fragments. That’s all. Come learn. Come read. Come write. One sentence at a time. This is a craft workshop focusing on the basic building blocks of writing prose. Attendees will read great sentences and practice writing their own.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Houston

Categories: Fiction, Book, Short Story, Poetry

Level: Any

Course length: 1 session (3 hours)

Class size: 15

Price: $70.00

Start date: Open all year round

Website: https://www.writespacehouston.org/creative-writing.html

What’s driving the structure of your speculative fiction story? Do you have multiple POVs? How about flashbacks? Is your story told in a roundabout way, or are you writing a linear narrative? In this workshop, we’ll look at a range of story structures, drawing from mentor texts within speculative fiction.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Houston

Categories: Science Fiction, Fantasy

Level: Any

Course length: 1 session (3 hours)

Class size: 15

Price: $60.00

Start date: Open all year round

Website: https://www.writespacehouston.org/creative-writing.html