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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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The Writers' Studio
This highly creative, yet totally practical writing course provides you with a step-by-step process that breaks the writing of your novel or screenplay into manageable weekly tasks and is designed for people working full time.
Prerequisites: Unlocking Creativity is a pre-requisite for this course.
Location: Sydney
Categories: Book, Screenplay
Level: Intermediate
Class size: Limited
Price: $3,695.00
Start date: September, 2023
Website: https://www.writerstudio.com.au/sydney-writing-courses/fi...
The Writers' Studio
Unlocking Creativity is a practical yet inspirational creative process that will get you writing from the very first session. By the end of the four weeks, you will see your writing dramatically improve whether you are a complete beginner, a professional writer or anywhere in between.
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
Location: Sydney
Categories: Book
Level: Any
Course length: 4 sessions (3 hours)
Class size: Limited
Price: $535.00
Start date: Open all year round
Website: https://www.writerstudio.com.au/sydney-writing-courses/un...
The University of Sydney
This practical and inspiring course is for anyone who wants to kick-start, or deepen, their writing. Take a break to share daily writing exercises in the company of other apprentice writers and hear some bright ideas about writing beautifully. This week-long workshop is open to writers of all levels.
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
Location: Sydney
Categories: Fiction, Poetry, Memoir
Level: Any
Course length: 5 sessions (4 hours)
Class size: Unlimited
Price: $480.00
Start date: May, 2023
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Writing NSW
Following the sold-out success of Timothy Daly’s 2019 and 2021 courses, we are delighted to offer a more extended and intensive study of structure for fiction writers. This four-week course will teach you many of the narrative structures and story patterns that lie beneath the surface of successful stories.
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
Location: Sydney
Categories: Fiction
Level: Any
Course length: 4 sessions (3 hours)
Class size: 15
Price: $440.00
Start date: November, 2023
Website: https://writingnsw.org.au/whats-on/courses/narrative-stru...
The University of Sydney
This writing course offers you a rich immersion in creative nonfiction, practical tuition and instruction in composition and style, along with plenty of opportunities to write and be inspired. It encourages writers to understand nonfiction as literature and shows them how to employ imagination, discipline, creativity and lyricism in its composition, just as one would in fiction.
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
Location: Sydney
Categories: Nonfiction, Memoir
Level: Any
Course length: 4 sessions (3 hours)
Class size: Unlimited
Price: $430.00
Start date: Open all year round
The University of Sydney
Designed to give you the practical skills to approach your creative writing projects with confidence, this creative writing course is built around particular topics integral to the writing process such as: voice, place evocation, characterisation, structure, sentence-craft and editing.
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
Location: Sydney
Categories: Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry
Level: Any
Course length: 4 sessions (3 hours)
Class size: Unlimited
Price: $430.00
Start date: Open all year round
The University of Sydney
A poem is a sculpture of voice. This workshop explores what poets know about the craft involved in all that. By forcing hard linguistic choices on a poet, line after line, poetic form frees language (forces it, perhaps) to do the other work we need language to do (beyond its functional duties in the market and the kitchen and the story).
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
Location: Sydney
Categories: Poetry
Level: Beginner
Course length: 1 session (8 hours)
Class size: Unlimited
Price: $300.00
Start date: Open all year round
North Sydney Community Centre
Ready to kickstart your creative writing? Get started with the basics at this hands-on class in North Sydney! Get well and truly started over six weeks of regular, in-class exercises and receive targeted advice as you have a go at developing and pitching a plot, finding the right point of view and tense, and nailing down the essence of your character and what your focus is.
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
Location: Sydney
Categories: Book, Fiction
Level: Beginner
Course length: 6 sessions (3 hours)
Class size: 9
Price: $250.00
Start date: Open all year round
Website: https://classbento.com.au/creative-writing-class-for-begi...
Sydney Community College
What do Helen Garner, Tim Winton, and David Sedaris have in common? They have all written about small snippets from their life and turned their everyday stories into art. Join us for a one day workshop to learn how to embrace moments from life and spin them into a short story.
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
Location: Sydney
Categories: Memoir
Level: Beginner
Course length: 1 session (6 hours)
Class size: Limited
Price: $229.00
Start date: January, 2023
Website: https://www.sydneycommunitycollege.edu.au/course/WRSS
Sydney Community College
How can we pin down these thoughts and make sense of them? Writing down our thoughts and feelings can be liberating, can help us build a greater understanding of ourselves and move past any challenges we face. In this creative writing course, we will explore a number of writing forms that help capture our thoughts and feelings.
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
Location: Sydney
Categories: Essay, Nonfiction, Short Story
Level: Any
Course length: 1 session (6 hours)
Class size: Limited
Price: $229.00
Start date: Open all year round
Website: https://www.sydneycommunitycollege.edu.au/course/WRJL
The University of Sydney
Writing your memoir may lead you into emotionally difficult territory. How much of what you write will be the truth? And how will you select what to write about? This workshop caters for those wanting to write their life story, and to aspiring authors seeking publication.
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
Location: Sydney
Categories: Memoir
Level: Beginner
Course length: 1 session (6 hours)
Class size: Unlimited
Price: $220.00
Start date: Open all year round
Sydney Community College
Put simply, life experience, combined with a desire to write, qualifies you to tell your own story. Our experiences shape us and inform our world view, and nobody navigates life without struggle. Our personal circumstances, our observations of the world, and our personalities make us all unique individuals, and therefore the narratives of our lives are just as unique.
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
Location: Sydney
Categories: Memoir
Level: Beginner
Course length: 1 session (6 hours)
Class size: Limited
Price: $219.00
Start date: November, 2023
Website: https://www.sydneycommunitycollege.edu.au/course/WRMM
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