Online Writing Courses with Writers.com

This Halloween, learn how to write eerie, haunting moods in this 2 hour workshop on Gothic writing techniques.

How can writers harness the power of dreams? Let your slumber supercharge your creativity in this three hour dream writing workshop.

What is your story about? What is your voice? Whether you write poetry, fiction, or nonfiction, hone your writing in this 3 hour workshop.

Haiku, Senryu, and other Japanese poetry forms encourage us to slow down and write mindfully. Learn how to write these forms in this meditative writing workshop.

Want to have a productive new year? Set up your bullet journal in this one day live workshop.

Ready to start revising your novel? Get rolling in this in-depth webinar.

When planned right, a blog allows you to share your passion and make money in the process. Learn how to build a blog in this one-day webinar.

Are you writing about people from real life? This one-day live workshop answers the question of how to be a good art friend.

How do you distill love into 1,500 words or less? Zining Mok explains in this love stories flash fiction workshop.

How do poets capture the essence of love in language? Learn how to do it yourself in this one day workshop.

How do you write a story that’s compelling to start and satisfying to finish? Sarah Aronson explains in this comprehensive one-day workshop.

Develop powerful and realistic settings in this generative three-hour workshop, with Jacquelyn Stolos.

In-depth character development using an ancient personality study of human motivation–the Enneagram.

Your unconscious can drive your writing or block it. Gloria Kempton will guide you in coaxing your shadow out of hiding.

Throughout her writing career, Gloria Kempton has met many anti-heroes. In this course, you’ll receive feedback on your story antagonists.

For novelists ready to write daily and intensively to finish the first draft of their novel in ten weeks.

Voice: What is it and how do you find yours? Instructor Gloria Kempton offers feedback on assignments in this 3-week online class.

The premise line is the only reliable tool that can tell you, BEFORE you start writing, whether or not your story will “work.” In this class participants will learn how to master the process of premise line development—the essential first step in any book or screenplay’s development process.

Write about love beyond trite sentiment and shallow fictions. Work down to the real thing: deep, powerful, destructive, exalted, fundamental.

Banish writer’s block, unearth fresh ideas, and sharpen your storytelling ability with the practice of fast, timed writing.

It happens to all of us: life gets in the way and our creativity falters. Get back on track with this four-week creativity boosting class!

What are the different types of creative nonfiction? From the personal essay to the hermit crab, learn the ropes of CNF in this 8 week class.

Not sure how to start building a literary career? By the end of this course, you’ll have tackled the author’s bio, C.V., LinkedIn, and more!

Take a four-week writing adventure deep into the core of your story, to find the true theme of your personal essay, short story, or short memoir.

Learn how to write emotionally resonant journeys that stick with the reader, using the power of character transformation.

Turn your experience into fiction, autobiography, or creative memoir. Bring forward stories with a powerful truth at their core. Instructor Anya Achtenberg.

Get tailored advice and inspiration for your fiction or nonfiction stories, in this weekly live workshop with award-winning instructor Margo Perin.

Even if you’ve never written poetry before, you can begin the rewarding process of crafting a poetry novel for Young Adults. Is there a market for novels written in verse? Are they well received? Yes, there is, and yes, they are!

Want to make headway on your poetry novel? This workshop offers the structure and resources to get it done, with instructor Kelly Bingham.

Hone your poetic craft by writing 6-7 new poems and combining them with previously-written poems to create a chapbook, or short poetry collection.

Go beyond narrow definitions of “journaling” to include visual images and let writing give what is seen a new voice. Surprise yourself.

How can your own mortality inform your work? In this 6-week course, you’ll use death to inspire and motivate your poetry writing.

For writers of memoir, creative nonfiction and fiction, with some experience. Particularly helpful to writers in the midst of a longer work.

Write the entire first draft of a novella-length story, with plenty of feedback from stage to stage, and finish with a plan for revising toward a publishable manuscript.

Have a grand time with specific physical exercises that honor your health, generate imaginative ideas, explore deeply and make your creative writing entertaining.

Have a grand time with specific physical exercises that honor your health, generate imaginative ideas, explore deeply and make your creative writing entertaining.

In this fun, transformative four-week program, get tips and techniques to bring out your courage to publish a story in print or online.

Address the larger issues of writing story through a look at the essential elements of narrative in fiction and memoir.

During this six week program, you will work closely one-on-one with Kelly to finalize, refine, and polish your picture book into a manuscript ready to submit for publication or representation.

The food we eat and enjoy tells volumes about our lives and experiences. Write it all down in this food memoir course, with Jennifer Billock.

Explore literary journalism as a powerful means to share fascinating characters, stories, and perspectives. Learn all you need to start pitching, landing, and writing reported essays and features.

Gather together in a virtual writing circle, hit the mute button on your internal editor, and uncover inspiration to shape into poetry.

Explore the power of joy, kindness, and community in this four week poetry workshop.

Explore the power of joy, kindness, and community in this four week poetry workshop.

Want to move forward into the new year with gratefulness and clarity for 2022? Join us for 4 weeks of writing about gratitude and hope.

Poetry is a powerful method for healing and happiness. Write poems about gratitude and hope in our intimate, live-video writing circles, with instructor Susan Vespoli.

Take to the skies in this online travel writing course. We’ll discuss the market, different types of travel writing, and pitching your piece!

How do you get invited to read at literary conferences? Lyzette Wanzer shows you the ropes in this one day workshop.

Finishing a novel requires guts, dedication, and stamina. When you find yourself struggling, our 10-week course with Donna Levin will help!

The summer is the best time to get the ball rolling on your book. Join us if you really want to get your book into the world.

If you’re a caregiver, public servant, or medical professional, this 6 week journaling course is designed to affirm your place in the world, creating a space for hope, gratitude, and meditation.

A poem has many moving parts, from sound and rhythm to form, voice, and figurative language. Learn the building blocks in this 6-week course.

Create your blog, brand it, create engaging content and successfully promote posts. Taught by journalist, writer and photographer Jessica Festa.

From branding to search engine optimization and advertising, this course puts bloggers on the path to earning an income through their blog.

Ready to add a splash of fun to your writing life? Join us for a four-week humor writing class. We’ll read. We’ll laugh. We’ll write. We’ll experiment.

Want to write about nature like Robert Frost, Henry David Thoreau, or Annie Dillard? Join us for this six week nature writing course.

Learn how to draw inspiration and material from your life experiences or those of people you know, or want to know, to craft compelling, publishable memoirs, personal essays, autobiographical novels and short stories, and/or narrative poetry.

What makes a good fiction story? Learn how to write compelling stories in this eight-week intro to fiction course, with Donna Levin.

Take the whirlwind tour! Learn the conventions of eight major fiction genres, try them out, and figure out your niche.

Writing a novel requires planning, strategy, and an understanding of the fundamentals of fiction. Get the guidance you need to start your novel the right way.

You’ll write prose that gets folks so hot and bothered they won’t be able to put it down, even if it isn’t about sex.

Draw inspiration and material from your life experiences or “real life” people you know to craft compelling, publishable personal essays. With author Margo Perin.

Instructor Sarah Aronson welcomes all writers who are working on manuscripts for kids and teens. This advanced workshop will focus entirely on the participants’ own work in progress.

Author Sarah Aronson leads this intermediate/advanced workshop on writing for children. It offers support, structure and detailed feedback on manuscripts.

In this course, you’ll work with the basic elements of fiction–the fundamentals that drive the story and determine the quality of the work.

A course for intensive practice and feedback in scene writing skills.

Join us for this insightful four-week “get the writing done” program, give and receive thoughtful comments from your fellow writers and the instructor, and enjoy heaps of encouragement and writing wisdom along the way.

Learn how to spotlight beauty through fresh, vivid, and surprising language, in this four week mindfulness writing course.

No experience is too small or mundane to serve as a foundation for extraordinary poetry and short fiction.

“Who are you to want to write?” Someone great, that’s who! Politely ask Mr. or Ms. Fear to step aside while you sign up for this fun, freeing and functional adventure.

Set your novel up for success! In this six-week workshop, instructor Dennis Foley will help you craft a plan to handle the essential demands and choices you’ll face as you write your novel.

Over eight weeks, you’ll develop a solid basis in the fictional elements—protagonist, setting, secondary characters, point of view, plot, and theme—while you develop the outline of your novel. You’ll receive feedback at all stages from your fellow writers and your instructor.

A course covering both plotting and outlining for the novelist, with Dennis Foley.

Dig deep into personal ritual while studying narrative poets, short fiction and non-fiction authors, and food writers.

Explore the border between prose poetry and flash fiction. For writers of fiction, poetry, essay and memoir.

Join us for this workshop on creating powerful poems—poems that are clear and organized, fresh and moving, full of life.

In this 10 week story writing class, Jeff Lyons pairs the Enneagram with story development techniques to revolutionize your writing practice.

Write like mad, read brilliant books & deepen your craft while exploring new paths to inspiration. With novelist and poet Anya Achtenberg, .

Start journaling, overcome blocks, and resolve challenges.

Your true story of healing or transformation can captivate and empower your readers. Learn how to balance showing the vivid details of your own journey with telling the broader themes for readers to apply in their own lives.

Write your way to the finish line of 2021: let go of and say goodbye to a momentous year, honor the changes in yourself and the world, and set your intentions for a new chapter.

Learn the basics of fiction writing and submit weekly writing for feedback from Shelley Singer, author of 13 novels. It’s time to start.

Gather material through writing and experimenting with journaling, researching and taking notes to develop into poems or prose works.

The first 50 pages sets up plot, characters, and voice, and it lays the groundwork for your book’s overall structure and success. Receive critical, supportive feedback on your book’s start from novelist Sandra Novack.

Have you wanted to get into poetry, but don’t know where to start? Learn the craft from the Joy of poetry herself in this welcoming workshop.

Explore the literary essay – from the conventional to the experimental, the journalistic to essays in verse – while writing and workshopping your own.

Explore non-traditional and imaginative ways to tell your stories with this ten-week writing course online. Creative nonfiction teacher Gretchen Clark provides detailed feedback on weekly writing assignments that emphasize creative freedom.

Create new work with fresh language, universal themes, sustained mystery and memorable characters. Stimulate your imagination.

So now that you have your opening novel pages, what next? Get detailed, constructive feedback on your work-in-progress, wherever you’re at in writing it.

Many students have attended this 10-week online fiction workshop with Shelley Singer multiple times, completed novels, and come back to finish more books.

In a song inspired class, write several essays about the music that has moved you through life: the emotions, the relationships, the events, the outcomes.

Wander through the rooms of your own life to discover stories of deep connection, reconnection or loss of connection and fashion your findings into stories suitable for blog posts, essays, short memoirs, short plays, scenes in screenplays, or chapters of novels.

Looking to keep your writing goals organized? Make it happen in our bullet journaling course. Learn the art of the BuJo with Rudri Patel!

Relationships are an important feature of fiction—and not just romances! If your non-romance work has love involved, learn the ropes in this 5 week course, open to writers of all genres.

For any writer wanting to root writing in vision and vision in the body: for poetry, fiction, essay, memoir & pleasure.

Join Susan in two writing circles each week: intimate spaces for writers to free-write together, saying yes to whatever shows up, followed by group read-arounds. These writing sessions are spontaneous, intimate, freeing, and transformative.

The artist’s statement is essential to applying for grants, fellowships, MFA programs and residencies. Writes yours in this one day workshop.

Get a good start on a novel in just ten weeks, or revise a novel you’ve already written. Free your imagination, move steadily ahead and count the pages!

Learn to depart from “what really happened,” and write compelling fiction from your own life experiences.

By studying the poems of Billy Collins, Ellen Bass, Natalie Diaz, and more, write stunning poetry in this generative writing circle workshop.

Write freely and expressively in this 8-week poetry workshop. Along the way, we’ll explore the transformative work of 9 contemporary poets.

Write out the storm: Join supportive, friendly faces in twice-weekly virtual community writing circles.

Expressive writing can be a powerful elixir for what ails you. Learn and practice tools for writing expressively, including two virtual writing circles each week, turn raw writing into poetry or prose, and come away with a better understanding of how writing can lead toward wellness.

Join our writing circle to form a writing community, find clarity in your words, and turn your untamed free-writes into poetry and/or prose.

Picture books have changed greatly over the last few decades, and the market is wide open for fresh ideas. Join us in this six-week intensive where we’ll take that idea of yours and turn it into a manuscript!

Writing about grief is a powerful healing tool. Turn pain into power in this personal essay course, with instructor Rudri Patel.

In Creative Nonfiction, place is a character in itself. Deeply explore a narrative and a place of your choosing, and make weekly progress on your essay or memoir.

If you turn on to the absurd in life—to the ironic, edgy, bizarre, and grotesque—this is the course for you. Learn the key techniques of writing absurdist fiction, dark fiction, and satire.

A novel writing preparatory course for the first-time novelist.

Jump-start your creative juices, and explore a world of divination, symbolism, and imagery right at your fingertips: learn short story and novel writing through Tarot.

Your unconscious can drive your writing or block it. Gloria Kempton will guide you in coaxing your shadow out of hiding.