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84 Best Nonfiction Creative Writing Classes in 2024

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Put simply, life experience, combined with a desire to write, qualifies you to tell your own story. Our experiences shape us and inform our world view, and nobody navigates life without struggle. Our personal circumstances, our observations of the world, and our personalities make us all unique individuals, and therefore the narratives of our lives are just as unique.

Website: https://www.sydneycommunitycollege.edu.au/course/WRMM

Categories: Nonfiction

Start date:

August, 2024

Price:

$249.00

Based in Sydney

Level: Any

Class size: Limited

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Turning Family Gossip and Tales into Short Stories and Novels

Sarah Lawrence College Writing Institute

Our lives are rich with stories passed on from families and friends. How do you decide what's material for a short story or a novel that anyone outside your family will want to read? In this generative writing intensive, we'll engage in writing exercises that help us explore this question.

Website: https://slc.augusoft.net/index.cfm?method=ClassInfo.Class...

Categories: Nonfiction

Start date:

May, 2024

Price:

$99.00

Online course

Level: Beginner

Length: 6 (3 hours)

Class size: Limited

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Anyone else have scraps of writing just sitting in the Google drive or an overstuffed notebook? What do you do with them all? These pieces do all have something in common; you wrote them and you like them, so we are going to have an old fashioned quilting bee.

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

Categories: Nonfiction

Start date:

May, 2024

Price:

$45.00

Based in Houston

Level: Any

Class size: 15

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

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We’re going above and beyond the experience of spending the day writing at a café—enjoy complimentary coffee, tea and water, chat with local creatives and maybe even find a new writing partner and friend!

Website: https://thewritingbarn.com/class/write-away-day-april-14-...

Categories: Nonfiction

Start date:

April, 2024

Price:

$35.00

Based in Austin

Level: Any

Class size: 35

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

In this three-hour workshop, we will approach personal essay through memories and experiences with food. In these essays, you can explore your relationship with particular people or with a gathering or event in your life. We will practice several techniques for connecting with food to craft a satisfying personal essay.

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

Categories: Nonfiction

Start date:

April, 2024

Price:

$45.00

Based in Houston

Level: Any

Class size: 15

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

In this generative class, we will be focusing on creative nonfiction and memoir–writing about the topics we have been encouraged not to bring up in “polite conversation.” Through a series of generative writing exercises, we will break through the secrecy and shame that too often accompany taboo subjects.

Website: https://www.storystudiochicago.org/classes/classes/writin...

Categories: Nonfiction

Start date:

June, 2024

Price:

$65.00

Based in Chicago

Level: Beginner

Class size: Limited

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

(Re)writing as Therapy

Kansas City Public Library

One of the most potent powers of writing is its ability to remold the past. In this class, we’ll use writing to explore past events, discovering how imagination can reframe good or bad times. You’ll even have the opportunity to literally rewrite a past event if you’d like.

Website: https://kclibrary.org/calendar/rewriting-therapy-0

Categories: Nonfiction

Start date:

May, 2024

Price:

Free

Based in Kansas City

Level: Any

Class size: Unlimited

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Complicating the Characters

Lighthouse Writers Workshop

In her seminal piece, “Complicating the Narrative,” the journalist Amanda Ripley urges storytellers to find and include details that don’t fit the narrative—on purpose. In this three-hour workshop, we’ll apply this principle to our own writing.

Website: https://lighthousewriters.org/workshop/complicating-chara...

Categories: Nonfiction

Start date:

May, 2024

Price:

$75.00

Based in Denver

Level: Any

Class size: Limited

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

In this fast and fun, 90 minute event we will cover every facet of the creation process from research and ideas to creating and selling your book. Above all, you will discover how to take known facts and transform them into a true story that is uniquely yours.

Website: https://thewritingbarn.com/class/everything-you-need-to-k...

Categories: Nonfiction

Start date:

March, 2024

Price:

$35.00

Based in Austin

Level: Any

Length: 6 (1.5 hours)

Class size: 100

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Alberto Giacometti famously said, “only beauty in imperfection.” How then do we approach revision, in such a way to emphasize not a perceived lack of flaws, but a celebration of imperfection? This workshop will explore that question but focusing on strategies for revising flash fiction and nonfiction.

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

Categories: Nonfiction

Start date:

March, 2024

Price:

$85.00

Based in Houston

Level: Any

Length: 1 (3 hours)

Class size: 15

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Through group discussion of student work, plus that of published authors, writers in this workshop will examine the art and craft of creative nonfiction. The focus will be on learning to understand and use a full range of literary techniques in order to tell a truly compelling nonfiction story.

Website: https://sackettworkshop.com/writing/2023/12/30/8-week-per...

Categories: Nonfiction

Start date:

March, 2024

Price:

$800.00

Online course

Level: Any

Class size: 10

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Self-Publishing 101

Rosemont Writers' Studio

This course will guide you in a step-by-step fashion how to take a manuscript and turn it into a book. We will cover all the bases from editing to formatting to self-marketing.

Website: https://www.rosemont.edu/academics/graduate/creative-writ...

Categories: Nonfiction

Start date:

April, 2024

Price:

$450.00

Based in Philadelphia

Level: Intermediate

Class size: Limited

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

How to choose a nonfiction writing class

Looking to build your writing skillset, learn more about your genre, or finally finish that nonfiction book 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 nonfiction writing class in particular, you’ll want to make sure that it matches what you’re seeking to learn about nonfiction writing.

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

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

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