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97 Best Nonfiction Creative Writing Classes in 2025

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This workshop connects food memories and personal experiences, guiding participants to craft personal essays based on relationships with food. It includes various techniques for writing essays that evoke sensory memories.

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

Categories: Nonfiction

Start date:

August, 2024

Price:

$60.00

Based in Houston

Level: Any

Length: 1 session (3 hours)

Class size: 15 seats max

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Memoir Writing I

Gotham Writers

A 10-week workshop involving lectures, exercises, and peer critiques aimed at teaching memoir writing. It covers various aspects of writing a memoir, including finding compelling stories and crafting them with fiction-like finesse.

Website: https://wp.writingclasses.com/courses/

Categories: Nonfiction

Start date:

Open all year round

Price:

$439.00

Based in New York

Level: Beginner

Length: 10 weeks

Class size: Unlimited

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Creative Writing Course

The University of Sydney

The course focuses on practical skills for creative writing including voice, characterisation, structure, and editing. It includes exercises in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry to help participants find their unique voice as a writer.

Website: https://cce.sydney.edu.au/

Categories: Nonfiction

Start date:

Open all year round

Price:

$430.00

Based in Sydney

Level: Any

Length: 4 sessions (12 hours total)

Class size: Limited

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Writing the Real Course

The University of Sydney

This course immerses writers in creative nonfiction, offering practical guidance in composition and style while encouraging imaginative and disciplined writing. Participants explore the differences between fiction and nonfiction and learn to treat nonfiction with the same literary care as fiction.

Website: https://cce.sydney.edu.au/course/WRRE

Categories: Nonfiction

Start date:

Open all year round

Price:

$450.00

Based in Sydney

Level: Any

Length: 4 sessions (12 hours total)

Class size: Limited

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Weekly Wordshop

Greater Philadelphia Wordshop Studio

Wordshops focus on creative exploration and experimentation in writing, using the AWA method. Participants work on various forms of writing and can receive feedback on their work. Each session includes prompts and exercises to stimulate creativity.

Website: https://www.philawordshop.com/wordshop.html

Categories: Nonfiction

Start date:

Open all year round

Price:

$440.00

Based in Philadelphia

Level: Any

Length: Weekly sessions (approx. 3 hours each)

Class size: 12 participants max

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

A healing retreat focusing on writing personal stories through workshops. Participants will share, read essays, develop their own writing, and workshop each other's pieces, culminating in a reading session.

Website: https://rockvalewriterscolony.org/workshops/

Categories: Nonfiction

Start date:

November, 2024

Price:

$425.00

Based in Nashville

Level: Beginner

Length: 4 workshops

Class size: Limited

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

This course focuses on writing personal essays that tackle dark and emotional subjects like trauma, loss, and relationships. Students will analyze exemplary works and engage in writing exercises to develop their essay-writing skills.

Website: https://grubstreet.org/find-a-class/

Categories: Nonfiction

Start date:

October, 2024

Price:

$540.00

Based in Boston

Level: Any

Length: 8 weeks (1 session per week)

Class size: 12 seats max

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

This hands-on course helps writers in the early stages of memoir writing. It covers the structure of memoirs, themes, voice, and story arc, with in-class writing exercises and discussions on published memoirs.

Website: https://grubstreet.org/find-a-class/

Categories: Nonfiction

Start date:

September, 2024

Price:

$375.00

Based in Boston

Level: Any

Length: 6 weeks (1 session per week)

Class size: 12 seats max

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

The course focuses on how landscape can embody character emotions, mood, and themes in writing. Participants will study works of writers who utilize landscape and learn techniques to enhance their writing through detailed specificity and evocation. The workshop aims to help writers create subtext through concrete details.

Website: https://lighthousewriters.org/

Categories: Nonfiction

Start date:

August, 2024

Price:

$270.00

Based in Denver

Level: Any

Length: 2 days (4 hours each day)

Class size: Limited

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Creative Nonfiction 101

Gotham Writers

A 6-week introductory course covering six major forms of creative nonfiction: memoir, personal essay, feature articles, profiles, reviews, and travel writing. The course includes lectures and writing exercises but does not involve workshopping of student projects.

Website: https://wp.writingclasses.com/courses/

Categories: Nonfiction

Start date:

Open all year round

Price:

$339.00

Based in New York

Level: Beginner

Length: 6 weeks

Class size: Unlimited

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Creative Writing 101

Gotham Writers

The course includes lectures and writing exercises, focusing on both fiction and nonfiction without the pressure of a specific project. It's designed to help beginners explore creative writing, gain confidence, and experiment.

Website: https://wp.writingclasses.com/courses/

Categories: Nonfiction

Start date:

Open all year round

Price:

$339.00

Based in New York

Level: Beginner

Length: 6 weeks

Class size: Unlimited

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

This six-week course focuses on creative writing through play, enabling students to produce drafts of poems, flash fiction, and essays, while fostering a supportive community.

Website: https://writers.com/

Categories: Nonfiction

Start date:

September, 2024

Price:

$380.00

Online course

Level: Beginner

Length: 6 weekly 1 hour Zoom sessions

Class size: Unlimited

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

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