362 Best Creative Writing Classes in Online

Get your agent submission questions answered! This workshop will equip you with everything you need to jump into the publishing industry. Discuss the roles of agents and editors, what they’re looking for in work, and how you can make your work stand out through strong query letters, pitches, and bios.

In this course, you’ll immerse yourself in the nuts and bolts of fiction writing and gain new levels of control over your creative process, all while you produce multiple short stories or several chapters of a novel.

In this practical class, you'll learn techniques to unlock your creativity even when inspiration seems scarce. By the end of the course, you'll be equipped with a toolkit full of writing hints and tips. Additionally, you'll join a supportive global community of Black Women & Women of Colour writers, fostering connections and support.

This three-week course will provide tips on how to harness your idea and contain it on a single page by learning how to write a One Sheet, as well as how to write a Query Letter to solicit your work.

Character and plot are intertwined. If the audience does not care about the characters, the plot will falter. This workshop will cover how to naturally develop characters and story as a single unit so that your audience connects on a deep emotional level.

This course will offer specific tips for creating and implementing advice on building the world of your screenplay. This class also covers research advice and tips, strengthening visual storytelling in action paragraphs, developing and implementing settings, examining character and plot conflict as it relates to your settings, and genre consistency.

This course combines poetry writing with the Elements of Theater and performance poetry technique. With an appreciation for the theatricality of "dramatic text", Performance Poetry 101 introduces us to just how, the poem as a specific type of written work, functions as a representative example of live theater when performed.

Join dramaturg, playwright, and fight/intimacy director Cha Ramos as she guides us through some questions and considerations for writing specific, expansive, and collaborative stories of violence and intimacy.

Join playwright Roger Q . Mason and dramaturg Gaven D. Trinidad as our course builds a new model of playwright-dramaturg collaboration. Drawing from jazz music as a method of creation, Mason and Trinidad will showcase how you can collaborate to build plays that engage with and honor community.

For playwrights who are in process with a first draft or ready to embark on a rewrite, this 10-week class with playwright, director, and dramaturg Mêlisa Annis will encourage you to focus not on an end product, but on what your play needs to deepen in this moment.

If you're just stepping into the world of playwriting, welcome! In this 5-week class, you will build a toolbox of the fundamentals, so your first play (and each play you write after that!) can be built on a strong foundation. The goal is to get a comprehensive overview of the possibilities within playwriting.

Get instant feedback on your poems, learn how to find inspiration all around you, and explore how to start reading – and thinking – like a poet in this one-day introduction to writing poems.