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It Starts with Play: Get (Back) into Writing
Writers.com
This six-week course focuses on creative writing through play, enabling students to produce drafts of poems, flash fiction, and essays, while fostering a supportive community.
Website: https://writers.com/
Categories: Short Story
Start date:
September, 2024
Price:
$380.00
Online course
Level: Beginner
Length:
6 weekly 1 hour Zoom sessions
Class size: Unlimited
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
This course focuses on character development using food to inspire writing. It includes craft lessons and writing prompts to help students explore their character and story ideas, suitable for various genres.
Website: https://grubstreet.org/
Categories: Short Story
Start date:
August, 2024
Price:
$475.00
Online course
Level: Beginner
Length:
1 week
Class size: 12
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
4-Week: Flash Prose
Lighthouse Writers Workshop
This course explores urgency, intensity, and movement in flash fiction and nonfiction through readings, discussions, and exercises.
Website: https://lighthousewriters.org/
Categories: Short Story
Start date:
September, 2024
Price:
$240.00
Based in Denver
Level: Any
Length:
4 weeks (Asynchronous)
Class size: Limited
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
Creative Writing Workshop for Kids
OutSchool
This workshop focuses on the major elements of fiction and narrator point of view, allowing kids to create their own themed fictional short stories.
Website: https://outschool.com/classes/
Categories: Short Story
Start date:
Open all year round
Price:
$80.00
Online course
Level: Beginner
Length:
4 weeks (1 session per week)
Class size: 6 students max
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
Backstory and Flashback
GrubStreet
This seminar explores how backstory and flashback can enhance narratives by providing context and character motivation. Participants analyze passages from noted authors and engage in writing exercises to apply techniques learned.
Website: https://grubstreet.org
Categories: Short Story
Start date:
September, 2024
Price:
$85.00
Based in Boston
Level: Intermediate
Length:
1 session (3 hours)
Class size: 12 seats max
Prerequisites: Come prepared to write, and bring a brief one to two paragraph description of your project.
Crafting Your Life into Story
The Writer's Center
The course teaches participants to identify pivotal life events and structure them into fictional or non-fictional narratives. It includes two sessions: an initial structure lesson followed by a draft workshop.
Website: https://writer.org/
Categories: Short Story
Start date:
September, 2024
Price:
$115.00
Based in Washington
Level: Beginner
Length:
2 weeks (1 session per week)
Class size: Limited
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
Conquer Writer's Block
Become a Writer Today
This is a step-by-step course aimed at building a writing habit, overcoming writer's block, and developing a personal writing system. Includes downloadable resources like videos, PDFs, and checklists across over a dozen modules.
Website: https://courses.becomeawritertoday.com/
Categories: Short Story
Start date:
Open all year round
Price:
$197.00
Online course
Level: Any
Length:
Self-paced over 12 modules
Class size: Unlimited
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
Writing the Short Story
Brave Writer
This course allows students to conceive and draft a short story up to 1,200 words, focusing on building narrative structure and engaging with feedback in a writer's workshop environment. It includes exercises that draw on myths and fairy tales, and emphasizes character development and narrative tension.
Website: https://bravewriter.com/online-classes/
Categories: Short Story
Start date:
September, 2024
Price:
$279.00
Online course
Level: Intermediate
Length:
5 weeks
Class size: 20 students
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
Writing Short Stories
Curtis Brown Creative
This course focuses on crafting compelling short stories, with expert guidance and feedback from industry professionals.
Website: https://www.curtisbrowncreative.co.uk/
Categories: Short Story
Start date:
Open all year round
Price:
£220.00
Online course
Level: Beginner
Length:
6 weeks
Class size: Unlimited
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
Creative Writing Workshop
The Women's Institute of Houston
This course covers all genres, focusing on topics like image-making, voice, dialogue, and revision. Each class includes writing prompts and workshopping of participants' writing.
Website: https://www.wih.org/
Categories: Short Story
Start date:
August, 2024
Price:
$360.00
Based in Houston
Level: Any
Length:
8 weeks, with classes held weekly on Thursdays from 10:00 AM to 12:00 PM.
Class size: 6 spots available
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
This virtual seminar focuses on crafting stories set in a single location. It discusses the implications for gender, characterization, plot, and time, featuring works by notable authors.
Website: https://www.bluestoop.org/
Categories: Short Story
Start date:
August, 2024
Price:
$50.00
Online course
Level: Any
Length:
2 hours
Class size: Unlimited
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
Teen Summer: DIY Comic Book Making
GrubStreet
This course allows teens to create a mini-comic over the course of a week, focusing on story development, writing, sketching, and finalizing comic pages. It includes workshops, peer collaboration, and is designed for all experience levels.
Website: https://grubstreet.org/workshop/teen-summer-diy-comic-boo...
Categories: Short Story
Start date:
August, 2024
Price:
$475.00
Based in Boston
Level: Any
Length:
5 days
Class size: 12
Prerequisites: Only for teens aged 13 to 18
