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How to Write a Short Story
GrubStreet
This course focuses on essential tools and techniques for writing short stories, including character development, plot construction, pacing, and crafting impactful endings. Participants will also explore different narrative styles and story structures.
Website: https://grubstreet.org/find-a-class
Categories: Short Story and Fiction
Start date:
December, 2025
Price:
$85.00
Based in Boston
Level: Beginner
Length:
3 hours
Class size: 50 Seats Max
How AI Can Help, How AI Can Hurt
GrubStreet
Explores AI's role in creative writing, focusing on leveraging AI tools for brainstorming, editing, and research while discussing ethical concerns and originality. 18+
Website: https://grubstreet.org/find-a-class
Categories: Short Story, Essay, Fiction, Kids, and Nonfiction
Start date:
December, 2025
Price:
$85.00
Based in Boston
Level: Any
Length:
3 hours
Class size: 50
Queer Creatives Fest: Border Crossing—Queer Fiction in Translation
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
This seminar utilizes close reading, discussions, and writing exercises to examine how translated queer fiction influences LGBTQIA+ storytelling. It aims to provide new insights and inspire new writing projects.
Website: https://lighthousewriters.org/
Categories: Fiction
Start date:
October, 2025
Price:
$75.00
Online course
Level: Any
Length:
2 hours
Class size: 10
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
4-Week: Creative Nonfiction 101
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
This introductory course focuses on various forms of nonfiction writing such as memoir, personal essay, and journalism. Participants engage in exercises, readings, and discussions to enhance their writing skills and develop their unique voice.
Website: https://lighthousewriters.org/
Categories: Nonfiction, Essay, and Memoir
Start date:
November, 2025
Price:
$240.00
Based in Denver
Level: Any
Length:
4 weeks, with classes held once a week for 2 hours.
Class size: 12
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
Queer Creatives Fest: Queer Magic—Spell and Ceremony Writing for Personal Liberation
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
The workshop explores prose and poetry as spells, focusing on personal transformation through writing, informed by West African spiritual concepts and queer poetry.
Website: https://www.lighthousewriters.org/
Categories: Fiction
Start date:
October, 2025
Price:
$75.00
Online course
Level: Any
Length:
2 hours
Class size: 2 available spots
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
Queer Creatives Fest: Sunday Focus and Flow—A Generative Space
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
This course offers a supportive environment for writers to generate new work. Participants can explore prompts and receive feedback while enjoying community engagement. Typewriters will be available for tangible writing experiences.
Website: https://lighthousewriters.org/
Categories: Fiction
Start date:
October, 2025
Price:
$35.00
Based in Denver
Level: Any
Length:
1 hour
Class size: 15
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
Queer Creatives Fest: Writing the Wild—Storytelling Through Biomimicry
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
The workshop explores how nature's adaptations can inspire writing techniques, focusing on translating animal traits into characters and using natural settings for poetic structure. It emphasizes the beauty of queerness in nature.
Website: https://www.lighthousewriters.org/
Categories: Fiction
Start date:
October, 2025
Price:
$75.00
Based in Denver
Level: Any
Length:
2 hours
Class size: 8
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
Queer Creatives Fest: Saturday Write and Chill Lunch Break
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
An informal writing group to connect LGBTQIA+ creatives, with generative prompts and journaling. Participants can write together or have time for silent reading while enjoying lunch.
Website: https://lighthousewriters.org/
Categories: Fiction and Short Story
Start date:
October, 2025
Price:
$10.00
Based in Denver
Level: Any
Length:
1 hour
Class size: 15
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
Queer Creatives Fest: Sunday Write and Chill Lunch Break
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
A casual writing session where participants can write using prompts or enjoy silent reading. It encourages community interaction and feedback among LGBTQIA+ writers.
Website: https://lighthousewriters.org/workshop/queer-creatives-fe...
Categories: Fiction
Start date:
October, 2025
Price:
$10.00
Based in Denver
Level: Any
Length:
1 hour
Class size: 15
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
Queer Creatives Fest: Sunday So What! Defeat Your Perfectionism and Make a Huge Mess
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
This one-hour generative workshop encourages participants to overcome perfectionism and embrace messy creativity. It draws inspiration from artists who navigated their own perfectionism to create. Attendees will leave with ideas for new projects.
Website: https://www.lighthousewriters.org/
Categories: Fiction
Start date:
October, 2025
Price:
$35.00
Based in Denver
Level: Any
Length:
1 hour
Class size: 10
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
Poetry Basics: Writing Sestinas
The Loft Literary Center
This course teaches the sestina poetic form, focusing on repetition, diction, and description. Participants will brainstorm ideas, learn the 'rules,' and analyze successful sestinas, with guidance for starting their own.
Website: https://loft.org/classes/poetry-basics-writing-sestinas
Categories: Poetry
Start date:
August, 2025
Price:
$56.00
Online course
Level: Any
Length:
1 session
Class size: Unlimited
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
Developing Video Game Narratives
UCLA Extension
The course teaches plotting and executing branching narratives for video games, writing in different interactive genres, and building a portfolio. It focuses on understanding non-linear storytelling and developing a vocabulary for interactive fiction.
Website: https://www.uclaextension.edu/
Categories: Fiction, Fantasy, and Science Fiction
Start date:
June, 2025
Price:
$720.00
Online course
Level: Intermediate
Length:
10 weeks
Class size: 15
