31 Best Publishing Creative Writing Classes in 2024

This conference is designed for writers seeking to connect with publishing acquisitions editors and literary agents. It offers manuscript critiques, pitch meetings, workshops, and talks by experienced authors and industry professionals, aiming to educate about the publishing industry and the craft of writing.

This online course with Tiffany Tsao will help you prepare for the next stage in your writing journey: finding a suitable publisher or literary agent and getting them interested in your work.

Learn the art of baiting the hook properly to get your short nonfiction pieces published and paid for in this four-week course. Discover how to generate saleable ideas, craft winning pitches, and connect with the right editors and publications.

After successful 2015, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, and 2022, events in San Diego, Writing Day Workshops is excited to announce The 2024 San Diego Writing Workshop — a full-day “How to Get Published” writing event in San Diego, CA on April 20, 2024.

Through close reading of selected stories by writers such as George Saunders, gain a clearer understanding of how the modern short story works. Participants are taken through the editing of a real story from submission to final publication and gain invaluable insight into the production of contemporary Australian fiction.

This intensive one-day workshop will offer all poets—whether they have yet to submit their first poem to a literary journal or are ready to present a publisher with a book-length manuscript—hands-on advice on how to achieve their publishing goals.

This is a special one-day “How to Get Published” writing workshop on Saturday, June 22, 2024, at the Congress Plaza Hotel. In other words, it’s one day full of classes and advice designed to give you the best instruction concerning how to get your writing & books published. We’ll discuss your publishing opportunities today, how to write queries & pitches, how to market yourself and your books, what makes an agent/editor stop reading your manuscript, and more.

In this generative workshop, you'll learn how to write short personal essays commonly found in popular, mainstream publications. Each week you’ll examine a variety of these essays from a variety of commercial, popular and niche magazines, newspapers, websites and journals, learning the craft of writing them.

Taking place on March 16, 2024, at the Marriott Kansas City Overland Park, this workshop offers a full day of learning, including sessions on publishing, literary agents, and manuscript critiques. The event features expert speakers and provides an opportunity for writers to pitch to agents. Designed for writers of all levels, it focuses on a variety of topics relevant to the publishing industry.

Hosted on March 16, 2024, at Le Meridien Atlanta Perimeter by Marriott, this one-day workshop is an intensive opportunity for writers to learn about getting published. It covers various aspects of writing and publishing, offering classes, pitch opportunities with agents, and personalized advice. Limited to 200 seats, the workshop is ideal for writers of all genres seeking focused guidance in a single day.

This one-day "How to Get Published" workshop, scheduled for April 6, 2024, in St. Paul, MN, offers intensive instruction, the opportunity to pitch to literary agents and editors, and a range of classes on publishing, query writing, and manuscript marketing. It is suitable for writers of all genres, focusing on both fiction and nonfiction, with a limit of 225 participants​​.

These are two separate one-day events in Tampa and Orlando, focusing on how to get published. The workshops offer intensive instruction, opportunities to pitch literary agents or editors, and cover a broad range of topics relevant to both fiction and nonfiction writers. They aim to provide direction in publishing, query writing, self-marketing, and manuscript evaluation​​.