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Write for Your Life

The Writers Circle

How can writing help you become more you? Pick up a pen and find out! Inspired by Anna Quindlen's book Write For Your Life and Nancy Aronie’s Memoir as Medicine, this class asks you to explore what really matters in your life. What stories shaped you? What stories helped you grow? How can the craft of writing help you heal? Through thoughtful prompts, class discussion, and sharing, we will connect through the art of writing.

Website: https://writerscircleworkshops.jumbula.com/

Categories: Book and Adult

Start date:

Open all year round

Price:

$410.00

Online course

Level: Any

Length: 11 weeks

Class size: Limited

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Getting Started in Writing

Writer's Digest University

Have you always wanted to be a writer? Don't let doubt or fear get the best of you—take a chance and learn how to start writing a book, novel, short story, memoir, or essay. When you take this online writing course, you'll discover your voice, learn the basics of grammar and examine the different types of writing.

Website: https://www.writersonlineworkshops.com/

Categories: Nonfiction, Book, Fiction, and Short Story

Start date:

Open all year round

Price:

$379.00

Online course

Level: Beginner

Length: 3 months

Class size: Unlimited

Prerequisites: Keys to Great Writing by Stephen Wilbers is a required book.

Travel Writing

Writer's Digest University

Embark on a six-week journey to becoming a travel writer with this course. Learn to craft engaging travel articles, develop your writing style, and turn your passion for travel and writing into a dream career.

Website: https://www.writersonlineworkshops.com/

Categories: Travel

Start date:

Open all year round

Price:

$379.00

Online course

Level: Beginner

Length: 6 weeks

Class size: Unlimited

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Master Fiction Writing

Sackett Street Writers

This Fiction Workshop is aimed at writers looking to create a regular practice and master the essentials and are looking for a community of peers ready to offer insightful, impartial feedback on works in progress. Class time is spent on in-depth discussion of student work, and analysis of published writing.

Website: https://sackettworkshop.com/writing/schedule/

Categories: Book

Start date:

October, 2024

Price:

$1,200.00

Online course

Level: Advanced

Length: 10 weeks (1 session per week)

Class size: 10 seats max

Prerequisites: A writing sample is required for this class.

The Write Your Memoir Course

UK Writers College

Ideal for anyone with a life story to tell, this course guides you through crafting a compelling memoir. With the support of a published writer, you'll learn traditional editing techniques, find your voice, structure your story, and start your manuscript with a 10,000-word target. The course includes seven modules with personalized feedback, fitting around your schedule over a 12-month period​​.

Website: https://www.ukwriterscollege.co.uk/

Categories: Memoir and Adult

Start date:

Open all year round

Price:

£595.00

Online course

Level: Beginner

Length: Self-paced over 12 months

Class size: Unlimited

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

In this class, we’re exploring the art of inventing new worlds in the small space that is the short story. We’ll experiment with different tools for developing speculative worlds, whether they be sci-fi, fantasy, surrealism, magical realism, horror, or otherwise

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

Categories: Fiction, Short Story, and Adult

Start date:

October, 2024

Price:

$280.00

Based in Boston

Level: Intermediate

Length: 4 weeks (1 session per week)

Class size: 12 seats max

Fantasy Writing for Beginners

Oxford Centre for Fantasy

A 10- lesson course you can do any time, any place, at your own speed! The course covers all the basics you need to get going on your writing quest. The ten lessons take your through: getting started, mapping your terrain, finding a hero, gathering allies, and more.

Website: https://oxfordcentreforfantasy.org/

Categories: Fantasy

Start date:

Open all year round

Price:

£40.00

Online course

Level: Beginner

Length: Self-paced over 10 lessons

Class size: Unlimited

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

In this course, we'll learn and practice the tried-and-true elements of fiction—style, voice, character, narrative, dialogue, point of view, and revision—with an emphasis on the short story form. Classes will include discussions on various elements of craft and close readings of essays on writing and published stories.

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

Categories: Fiction and Short Story

Start date:

October, 2024

Price:

$560.00

Based in Boston

Level: Intermediate

Length: 8 weeks (1 session per week)

Class size: 12 seats max

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Suitable for writers with an existing story idea or a novel you’re ready to reboot and get published, The Novel Development Course will help you re-draft your novel to publishing standards with professional help from our writing coaches and publishing editors.

Website: https://www.thenovelry.com/which-course

Categories: Book and Adult

Start date:

Open all year round

Price:

$2,495.00

Online course

Level: Beginner

Length: Self-paced over 1 year

Class size: Unlimited

Prerequisites: Suitable for writers who want to reboot and publish a novel.

Writing a TV pilot is a tall order for anyone and without firm footing, your feet are as good as clay. In this one-day structure clinic, TV writer Alicia Carroll (Zoey’s Extraordinary Playlist, Film Independent: Project Involve & Women In Film Fellow) will help you apply the toolset of the scribe to root your story in a clearly defined genre, give it a rock-solid spine and compelling arcs that launch your pilot firmly into series.

Website: https://writingpad.com/classes/

Categories: Fiction and Screenplay

Start date:

November, 2024

Price:

$95.00

Based in Los Angeles

Level: Intermediate

Length: 1 session (3 hours)

Class size: 25 seats max

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Medical Writing Course

Henry Harvin

Medical Writing Training is one of the fastest-developing disciplines that involves writing topics related to the Healthcare Industry and drug development. This course includes 24 hours of instructor-led sessions, 8 hours of interactive doubt-solving sessions, and 192 hours of self-paced learning.

Website: https://www.henryharvin.com/medical-writing-course

Categories: Medical

Start date:

Open all year round

Price:

$499.00

Online course

Level: Beginner

Length: Est. 30 hours

Class size: Unlimited

Prerequisites: The eligibility criteria for a Medical Writing course is a graduation degree.

It is said that all of us have locked inside at least one good story to tell. Through lectures on craft, short writing exercises, assignments and discussion, you learn how to tell yours. Topics include plot, point-of-view, setting, description, conflict, characterization, dialogue, tension, rewriting and submission strategies.

Website: https://www.uclaextension.edu/writing

Categories: Short Story

Start date:

Open all year round

Price:

$720.00

Based in Los Angeles

Level: Beginner

Length: Est. 10 weeks

Class size: 15 seats max

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

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