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Best Creative Writing Classes in 2023

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Our Advanced Fiction Workshop is aimed at writers who have mastered the essentials and are looking for a community of peers ready to offer insightful, impartial feedback on works in progress. Whether you’re a writer looking to polish work for publication or simply missing the motivation and comradery only workshop can offer, our Fiction Workshop is designed to get you writing.

Prerequisites: A writing sample is required for this class.

Location: Online

Categories: Book

Level: Advanced

Class size: 10

Price: $600.00

Start date: June, 2023

Website: https://sackettworkshop.com/writing/2022/11/05/8-week-onl...


Every other week you will submit up to 5,000 words of your manuscript to the instructor and she will provide you with written feedback. You’ll also have the opportunity to receive feedback from your fellow writers. The two-hour bi-weekly meetings will be the chance for you to discuss your projects and engage with writing prompts in shared group writing time.

Prerequisites: Writers must have completed one or more chapters of a novel, memoir, etc.

Location: Online

Categories: Short Story

Level: Intermediate

Class size: 15

Price: $1,050.00

Start date: April, 2023

Website: https://sackettworkshop.com/writing/2022/11/05/12-wk-virt...


It’s often said that you can make a bad movie with a good screenplay, but you can’t make a good movie with a bad screenplay. At the New York Film Academy’s Screenwriting School we take that to heart. Get training from a top screenwriting school without commuting or leaving your home.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Online

Categories: Playwriting, Screenplay

Level: Any

Class size: Limited

Price: $2,000.00

Start date: Open all year round

Website: https://www.nyfa.edu/online-screenwriting/workshops/15-we...


It’s often said that you can make a bad movie with a good screenplay, but you can’t make a good movie with a bad screenplay. At the New York Film Academy’s Screenwriting School we take that to heart. Get training from a top screenwriting school without commuting or leaving your home.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Online

Categories: Screenplay

Level: Any

Class size: Limited

Price: $2,000.00

Start date: Open all year round

Website: https://www.nyfa.edu/online-screenwriting/workshops/15-we...


Over the course of the next year, we’ll write seriously, we’ll read like scholars, we’ll meet best selling authors, luminaries in publishing, and distinguished booksellers and local literary agents. But most importantly, we’ll develop the resources and relationships to move ahead with a writing life once the course is finished.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Minneapolis

Categories: Book, Fiction, Publishing

Level: Any

Class size: Limited

Price: $7,500.00

Start date: February, 2023

Website: https://loft.org/novel-writing-project-specifics


Margaret Fulton, Ruth Reichl, Pete Wells, Anthony Bourdain: all accomplished food writers, who got their start, somewhere, with a short restaurant review or magazine article. Breaking into food writing isn’t as difficult as it may seem. All it takes is a knowledge of food, a winning idea and the ability to sell your story, and yourself, to a food publication.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Online

Categories: Food

Level: Any

Class size: Unlimited

Price: €1,350.00

Start date: June, 2023

Website: https://onlinecourseinfo.cordonbleu.edu/food-writing-for-...


“Bring Your Book to Life®” includes award-winning book writing materials, private work with a top expert in the field and your editor in-residence, 2 or more weeks to develop your concept and structure through a mix of group work and private instruction and a 10-week webinar class that has all the advantages of a live workshop.

Prerequisites: Before the first weekly class, you should have a book concept, content and structure.

Location: Online

Categories: Book, Adult

Level: Advanced

Class size: Unlimited

Price: $5,997.00

Start date: Open all year round

Website: https://www.lisatener.com/book/

Sports Storytelling

The School of The New York Times


It’s no wonder that sports journalism is a dominant part of many media outlets. When it comes to good stories, sport has it all: the glory of winning, the agony of defeat, heroes, underdogs, human characters with their strengths and frailties. This course will teach students how to capture these sports stories in words, pictures and sounds.

Prerequisites: Open to rising 10-12 students.

Location: New York

Categories: Sports

Level: Beginner

Class size: Limited

Price: $5,975.00

Start date: Open all year round

Website: https://nytedu.com/courses/pre-college/sports-storytelling/

Creative Writing & Food Culture

The School of The New York Times


New York City is the cultural capital of the world and home to an abundance of thriving creative fields: writing, food culture and music, among others. If it’s happening anywhere, it’s happening in New York City. This course will encourage students to deeply explore their senses and to let their experience inspire their own expression via the lenses of written expression, musical creativity and contemporary food movements.

Prerequisites: Open to rising 10-12, graduating seniors.

Location: New York

Categories: Food, Travel

Level: Beginner

Class size: Limited

Price: $5,975.00

Start date: Open all year round

Website: https://nytedu.com/courses/pre-college/creative-writing-f...


Clarion is an intensive six-week summer program focused on fundamentals particular to the writing of science fiction and fantasy short stories. It is considered a premier proving and training ground for aspiring writers of science fiction, fantasy, and horror. Instructors are among the most respected writers and editors working in the field today.

Prerequisites: Application fee, application, and two short stories.

Location: San Diego

Categories: Science Fiction, Fantasy

Level: Intermediate

Class size: 18

Price: $5,150.00

Start date: Open all year round

Website: http://clarion.ucsd.edu/

Scientific Writing Workshop

The Researchers' Writers Academy


A blended-learning online training for groups of researchers who want to get published in high-ranking STEMM journals without lacking structure in the writing process. Ideal for your lab, research group, PhD program, graduate school and as professional development training for postdocs and faculty.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Online

Categories: Scientific

Level: Intermediate

Class size: 6

Price: $5,000.00

Start date: Open all year round

Website: https://www.annaclemens.com/scientific-writing-workshop

Persuasive Communication

Harvard University


In this course, you will experience hands-on learning with the latest research in persuasive communication. Throughout the three-week program, you will join peers from around the globe to participate in live sessions led by Harvard faculty complemented with self-paced assignments and group work that can be scheduled at times convenient for you.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Online

Categories: Business

Level: Any

Class size: Limited

Price: $4,600.00

Start date: Open all year round

Website: https://www.hks.harvard.edu/educational-programs/executiv...

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