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In this course, you’ll explore many poets whose work radiate with broad definitions of spirituality. Our weekly readings are designed to help center and balance you, as well as help you explore your own beliefs and approaches to a spiritual life.

Website: https://writers.com/course/the-spirituality-of-poetry

Categories: Poetry

Start date:

October, 2024

Price:

$445.00

Online course

Level: Any

Class size: Unlimited

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Because poetry, by definition, is political, even the choice to write apolitical poetry is a political one. In this workshop, we will develop our writing craft while engaging in revolutionary political education, specifically as it relates to the Black Power and Black Arts Movements.

Website: https://grubstreet.org/workshop/revolutionary-poetics-su24

Categories: Poetry

Start date:

July, 2024

Price:

$250.00

Based in Boston

Level: Intermediate

Class size: 13

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

This workshop is designed for essay writers who are already working on personal essay projects and want to receive feedback in a supportive and constructively critical environment. The class will include workshops of student writing, discussions on the art and craft, and readings of exemplary works in the genre.

Website: https://grubstreet.org/workshop/developing-your-personal-...

Categories: Essay and Nonfiction

Start date:

August, 2024

Price:

$560.00

Based in Boston

Level: Any

Length: 3 (3 hours)

Class size: 25

Prerequisites: For writers age 13 - 18 ONLY.

Whether you’re working towards a novel or writing short stories, poetry, plays or genre-fluid experiments, this is an opportunity to improve your skills and learn about different literary techniques to help your big ideas come to life.

Website: https://grubstreet.org/workshop/teen-summer-august-week-o...

Categories: Short Story, Essay, Fiction, Kids, Nonfiction, and Poetry

Start date:

August, 2024

Price:

$450.00

Based in Boston

Better Business Writing

Emory University

This interactive course aims to strengthen business writing skills, focusing on audience-centric writing and digital writing standards. Participants will learn to refine their writing style, with classes limited to 15.

Website: https://ece.emory.edu/areas-of-study/communication/better...

Categories: Business

Start date:

August, 2024

Price:

$395.00

Online course

Level: Beginner

Class size: 15

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Novel in Progress

GrubStreet

In class, we will do exercises, discuss craft issues—characterization, the protagonist's desire, plot and outlining, endings—and read short scenes from each other's work, providing feedback in an environment that recognizes the specific challenges of the novel in progress.

Website: https://grubstreet.org/workshop/novel-in-progress-su24-02

Categories: Fiction and Book

Start date:

July, 2024

Price:

$520.00

Online course

Level: Any

Class size: 12

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Students at this level are writing poetry with an increased focus on creating an individual voice and an emotional atmosphere. Exercises using free verse and traditional, received forms (i.e. sonnet, villanelle, sestina, and pantoum) as well as meter and syllabics are suggested in order to strengthen a student’s technical skills.

Website: https://courses.writerstudio.com/courses/online-advanced-...

Categories: Book and Poetry

Start date:

June, 2024

Price:

$395.00

Online course

Level: Any

Class size: Limited

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Writing through heartbreak and loss can provide a tool for discovering the insight lurking beneath the pain. Such writing will stir readers’ emotions, even helping process their own pain. Instructor Andrea Meyer will assign readings and writing exercises to help you tell your darkest, scariest, and most gratifying stories.

Website: https://grubstreet.org/seminar/the-tough-stuff-strategies...

Categories: Fiction, Short Story, Book, Essay, and Nonfiction

Start date:

August, 2024

Price:

$235.00

Based in Boston

Level: Advanced

Length: 8 (3 hours)

Class size: 9

Prerequisites: At least one act or thirty pages of a screenplay or television pilot completed.

Sometimes we become so focused on productivity or “doing it right” that we stifle our creativity. In this class we’ll focus on one of the hardest parts of writing: writing. Each week we’ll use new prompts and guided activities to inspire new creation.

Website: https://literary-arts.org/event/get-writing-unblocking-wr...

Categories: Book, Fiction, Nonfiction, and Short Story

Start date:

June, 2024

Price:

$410.00

Based in Portland

Level: Any

Class size: Unlimited

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

In this course with author Michelle Cahill, you will learn how to appreciate and hone the craft of short fiction through analysis of contemporary short stories by PJ Norman and Lauren Groff. We will focus on how reading short fiction makes us better writers and members of an interpretive community.

Website: https://writingnsw.org.au/whats-on/courses/short-stories-...

Categories: Fiction and Short Story

Start date:

July, 2024

Price:

$210.00

Based in Sydney

Level: Beginner

Class size: 20

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

In this writing course, we will discuss some non-fiction literary forms, such as memoir, essays, creative non-fiction and theme-driven autobiographical work and the differences between them, in helping situate the participant’s own work within this genre.

Website: https://writingnsw.org.au/whats-on/courses/the-art-of-wri...

Categories: Memoir and Nonfiction

Start date:

August, 2024

Price:

$210.00

Based in Sydney

Level: Any

Length: 1 (3 hours)

Class size: 15

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

Through craft lessons and writing prompts, students will have fun fleshing out their character and story ideas using food as inspiration and leave with delicious new drafts.

Website: https://grubstreet.org/workshop/teen-summer-food-for-thou...

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

Start date:

August, 2024

Price:

$475.00

Online course

Level: Beginner

Class size: 13

Prerequisites: No prerequisites

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