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571 Best Creative Writing Classes in 2023

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This directory of creative writing courses will help you find the right class for you. Simply filter by genre, price, and location to find the writing class that best fits your needs.

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Green Street Poetry


The Green Street Poetry Workshop is the heart and soul of our organization. The goal of the workshop is simple - we hope that through collaboration, honest critiques, and persistent encouragement, we can help each other achieve whatever writing goals we've set for ourselves.

Prerequisites: 10 copies of the poem you want workshopped.

Location: Philadelphia

Categories: Poetry, Free

Level: Any

Course length: 1 session (3 hours)

Class size: Unlimited

Price: Free

Start date: Open all year round

Website: https://www.greenstreetpoetry.com/workshop


Do you read cookbooks before bed? Do you love sharing stories of making tamales in your auntie’s kitchen, or of the first time you tried Sichuan food? If yes, then join us for our new sensory writing group which meets monthly in the Curio Spice Lab. Sensory Storytelling at Curio is designed to inspire your curiosity and offer a creative outlet to explore food writing.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Boston

Categories: Food, Free

Level: Any

Course length: 1 session (1.5 hours)

Class size: 5

Price: Free

Start date: Open all year round

Website: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/sensory-storytelling-food-wr...

Sharpened Visions: A Poetry Workshop

California Institute of the Arts


Why just write poems when you can write better ones? This course is built on the notion that the most exciting writing begins after the first draft. It is specifically for folks who believe that writing poems just to express oneself is like using the Internet just for email.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Online

Categories: Poetry, Free

Level: Beginner

Course length: Est. 4 weeks (Self-paced)

Class size: Unlimited

Price: Free

Start date: Open all year round

Website: https://www.coursera.org/learn/poetry-workshop

Legally Blogs

Blogging for New Bloggers


Protect your blog legally. Find out what’s required by law from you as a blogger and kick-start your compliance to avoid lawsuits, formal complaints and hefty fines!

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Online

Categories: Blog, Free

Level: Beginner

Course length: Est. 2 hours (Self-paced)

Class size: Unlimited

Price: Free

Start date: Open all year round

Website: https://school.bloggingfornewbloggers.com/p/legally-blogs...

Write Club

Austin Public Library


The Austin Public Library invites you to a series of workshops that will teach you the basics of writing for various genres and purposes.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Austin

Categories: Book, Fiction, Essay, Poetry, Nonfiction, Short Story, Book, Free

Level: Any

Course length: 1 session (1 hour)

Class size: Unlimited

Price: Free

Start date: Open all year round

Website: https://library.austintexas.gov/events/writing


Blogging for Business is a free blogging course where you'll learn how to start and grow a blog past 100,000 visitors and turn those readers into customers. If you want to drive real business growth through your content marketing efforts, then this course will change the way you do digital marketing.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Online

Categories: Blog, Freelance, Content, Free

Level: Any

Course length: 1 session (5 hours)

Class size: Unlimited

Price: Free

Start date: Open all year round

Website: https://ahrefs.com/academy/blogging-for-business

Poetry Class

Albany Classroom


Exercises in the Five-Session group represent exercises which, over the years, have produced striking and surprising results. This group, when done as a series, will guide and familiarize you with some of the fundamental tools of poetry writing. The results of these exercises almost always turn out to be amazing.

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Location: Online

Categories: Poetry, Free

Level: Any

Course length: 7 modules (Self-paced)

Class size: Unlimited

Price: Free

Start date: Open all year round

Website: http://scotts.members.sonic.net/albany/apages/class.html

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