Listings of workshops, conventions and training for writers.
This page was last updated on August 21st, 2008
This page was last updated on August 21st, 2008
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Liberato
Writing courses and critique service for all writers.
Writers Bureau
First-class home-study creative writing course from professional writers. Earn while you learn. Full refund guarantee if not successful.
Writing Assessment Services
Online courses, email tutorials, and writing evaluations for homeschoolers, professionals, and anyone else who wants to improve his writing.
Storyarts Writing Workshop
An interactive writing workshop for beginners and intermediate fiction and nonfiction writers.
Writing, Speaking and Reading in the Corporate World
How to improve your business writing & reading Skills. Uses workbook and on-line courses.
Clarity Works Writing Classes and Coaching
Writing teacher helps each student free her or his writing voice. In this container - whether it's a class, workshop, retreat or individual session - each person feels nurtured and safe, allowing her to risk revealing the complexity and fullness of her ex
Alicia Hilton
Former FBI agent, attorney, and author, offering writing workshops and consulting services.
Writing Unlimited
An on-line course to teach basic through advanced English writing skills to all ages, focusing on learning to write essays. Grammar and vocabulary are taught in each unit covering a variety of writing types.
International Women's Writing Guild
Non-profit organization for the empowerment of women through writing. Site provides details of regional workshops and a wealth of useful information about services and benefits available to IWWG members. No portfolio is required.
The Creative Project Institute
Workshops for writers focusing on completing a manuscript.
The Windmill Writing Workshop - creative writing workshops and retreats
The Windmill Writing Workshop, a non-profit organisation, runs creative writing workshops & retreats in Majorca, the Balearic Islands, Spain every autumn.
CalArts MFA in Writing
The CalArts Writing MFA is neither a "creative" nor a "critical" writing program -- instead it attempts to question and provoke the mutations that occur in forms and styles of writing and reading.
Creative Writing Class
This Creative Writing Lesson deals with Writer's Block and how to get rid of it. Offers several resources on freelance writing.
Pen INC
Critique forum for writers, with archive of submissions.
Dorian Haarhoff, Writer
"We called him Tortoise, because he taught us," they said. Dr. Haarhoff teaches wholistically with courses that suit corporate clients and individuals. Available for settings throughout South Africa.
Midwest Writers Workshop
Our 27th summer workshop from July 27-29 for aspiring and accomplished writers features sessions on mystery, romance, children's, poetry, fiction, non-fiction. Richard Lederer, keynoter.
CGU Writing Center
The Claremont Graduate University Writing Center offers an active online writing resource for graduate level students. Offers transdisciplinary programs that encourage collaboration and communication. The goal is to help students negotiate the challenges
Fire in the Head creative writing programme
Creative writing courses in picturesque UK countryside. Features the idea of 'whole person' writing, with emphasis on the imagination and creative expression. Students are encouraged to be "literary pyromaniacs" - finding ways to kindle fire and
The Writing Space
The Writing Space was founded in Toronto in 1990 as a small press and writers' organization. Workshops are available from The School of the Writing Space. Publications include fiction, poetry, non-fiction, interviews and a twice-yearly literary journal
Outrider Press, Inc.
Provides writing instruction and publishes annual anthology in affiliation with TallGrass Writers Guild, a non-profit writers organization/resource.
Creative writing practice courses
Nita Sweeney offers classes in Columbus, Ohio, based on many years of study with best-selling auther, Natalie Goldberg.
Writers' Village University
International on-line writers group with an emphasis on education. Over 130 fiction, non-fiction and poetry writing courses and workshops are available to members. Other features include e-zine, weekly chats, discussion forums and live site guides. New m
Xebra Online Writing Workshop
Post your stories, poetry, essays, or anything else you're working on. Free feedback.
Fishtrap
Fishtrap promotes clear thinking and good writing in and about the west through year round workshops, gatherings and writers' retreats.
Writing the Information Superhighway
Links and resources for attendees of writing seminar and visitors to this website.
Herstory Writers Workshop
A nonprofit memoir writing project for women. Begun in 1996 as a community memoir writing project for women, Herstory reaches out to give narrative tools to women who might not ordinarily have access to high quality writing instruction. Partially tuition
Today's Writer.com
Offers online classes for writers. Discussions are held twice a week for ten weeks in assigned chatrooms. Students can post their work in classroom message boards to get peer feedback.
Online Certificate in Technical Writing
Earn an Online Certificate in Technical Writing.
Novelist's Workshop
British page with links to other interesting sites, discussion groups, research material, and advice for troubleshooting with publishers and agents.
Find Your Mission in Life Workshop & Conference
Specializing in self-actualization and meditation, this site includes writing therapy: journaling and creative writing.
Under the Volcano
One-week retreats in legendary Mexican village for writers of fiction and literary non-fiction.
Mother Wit - Colleen Anderson - Writing - Workshops - Music - Graphics
Workshops in poetry, short story, essay, and songwriting.
Writers Retreats: Colorado and Mexico
The Writers' retreat offers a broad spectrum of coursework and literary services and provides short residency workshops.
Red Rose Writing
Copywriting, creative and technical writing workshops, seminars, and training. Lessons from Sallianne Norelli (copywriter and children’s book author).
Inkberry
Offers writing workshops in-house and online, manuscript critique, a reading series, and online writing resources including discussion forums and generative exercises.
Monte Sol Workshop
Summer writing workshop for high school students in Santa Fe, NM.
Glencoe Online Writers Choice
Web site hosted by national educational publisher providing writing assessment and evaluation models, lesson plans, annotated writing models, interactive quizzes, study guides, and practice in proofreading, spelling, grammar, vocabulary.
Self Publishing Courses
This workshop explains self-publishing process, costs and manuscript requirements.
Publishing Secrets Revealed - free seminars
Learn about contracts, royalties, copyright, e-books, and printing costs.
London School of Journalism Distance learning courses
The LSJ offers fiction writing courses, news journalism courses and freelance journalism courses by distance learning. Also offered are courses for short story writing, thriller writing, cartooning and English for business. Established in 1920, LSJ has an
The Internet Writing Workshop
Join various mailing list workshops such as poetry, fiction, flash fiction, romance, novels, and non-fiction. Post and receive critiques of work, plus critique other works. Discuss the finer points of writing.
Professional Writing Skills
Professional writing skills, communication skills, speaking skills, English grammar, writing skills - seminars and workshops in indianapolis indiana.
Lynn Staudacher - Paths To Awareness
Pathways to explore deep within the individual and the collective creative process. Programs offered: Cosmic Footprints, Wanna Write, Trance Formations.
Create a Kids' Book
Delightful website for writers of children's books. Holds regular monthly workshops in Victoria, Australia. Also offers manuscript assessment service for children's books.
Course to Excel in Writing
Free online writing course for technical and fiction writers. School for Championships features free online writing course. Covers screen writing, children's stories, and technical writing.
Better Writing Skills
Offers downloadable book, Better Writing Skills, to help with business, thesis, technical and creative writing.
Virtual Writer
Publish poetry, drama, fiction, non-fiction and reviews. Comprehensive information on writing related courses, careers, competitions, events, and reviews. Interactive features include a bulletin board, chat, and online workshops.
WritingDEN
Interactive site created to help students improve English reading, writing and listening skills.
Julie H. Ferguson
An author presents workshops that provide aspiring authors with the knowledge, skills and confidence to get published.
The Jewish Writing Institute
Non-profit organization offering email courses for Jewish writers including journalism, memoir, fiction, grant writing, publishing and poetry. Courses are interactive and fee based. Editing and critique service also offered.
Write On Maui
Classes on Maui are offered to small groups of writers.
How to Write Well
Interesting collection of links and services for writers. Offers a home study course on writing.
Online Writing Courses - Continuing Educ. Dept., Earthnet Institute
Online courses taught by experienced professionals: Magazine Writing, Short Fiction, Poetry, Life Story, Travel, Screenwriting, Creative Training, Editing, Technical, and Grantwriting.
Writers in the Mountains
Local writers group in the Western Catskills (Delware County, New York). Workshops include Journal, Fiction, Poetry, Play-writing, as well as advanced workshops where manuscripts are critiqued.
WriteLines
Located ten miles north of Boston. Offers creative writing workshops, retreats and seminars.
Boston Screenwriting Workshop
Boston Screenwriting Workshop provides classes for beginning to professional screenwriters in the New England area. Targets writers who are "serious about writing and can't go to UCLA or NYU Film School."
Optimal Marketing Communications
Tips on how to write more concisely and crisply. Learn to eliminate errors and communicate more effectively with your intended audience.
LEARNEX Essentials of Clear Writing
Writing workshops and courses designed for managers, supervisors, professionals and administrative staff.
McCloskey Writing Consultants:business and legal writing
Tools to achieve highest standards of professional writing, both in law and in business.
Write What You Know
Licensed social worker offers help to writers via phone and telecourses. A unique approach to writer's needs.
The Writing Salon
Year-round school of creative writing classes located in San Francisco's Bernal Heights. Fiction, poetry, personal essays, memoirs, screenwriting, playwriting, and magazine writing. Nine and five-week courses; also one-day workshops.
Suite 101: Writing and Publishing courses
This online university offers more than 200 continuing education courses in 18 different schools.
The Attic
The attic is a unique writer's workshop (and haven) in Portland. Visit to read about workshops and enjoy the atmosphere in this writing community.
Original Impulse
Helps writers develop discipline, balance and structure in life and writing.
ParagraphPunch.com
An on-line writing tutorial. This site takes users through the actual steps of writing a paragraph. Supplementary information also included.
Eagle Productions Creative Writing Course
Entertaining lessons by New Zealand writer Craig Lock. Two free lessons and lessons for sale regarding articles, poetry, short stories, novels, autobiographies and books.
E-booklets from Beacon Literary Services
Julie Ferguson's Beacon Literary Services feature e-booklets on writing. Julie is an author and speaker/trainer who presents at the Surrey International Writers' Conference and teaches for the Surrey Creative Writing Diploma program.
Spring Time Writers - Tips, Exercises and Workshops
Serene Rocky Mountains retreat with professional, personal writing instruction. Monthly free tips and exercises. Monthly newsletter delivers even more to your site. 4-day and week long workshops. Contest.
Gotham Writers' Workshop
Creative writing classes offered online and in NYC in writing fiction, screenplays, nonfiction, poetry, memoirs, novels, mysteries, romances, TV sitcoms, children's books, science fiction, and writing for business.
Institute for Excellence in Writing
This unique site offers resources for writing teachers and home schooling parents who are teaching students to write outside the institutional setting.
Creative writing courses
Creative writing courses for aspiring writers including residential weekend courses in picturesque Devon UK.
Shaw Guide to Writers Conferences and Workshops
Detailed descriptions of hundreds of writing conferences, seminars and workshops worldwide. Searchable by state, country, specialty, keyword. Includes calendar of upcoming programs.
Nightwriter - Writer's Workshop for Writer's Workshop Retreats
A Writer's Workshop for Creative Writers. Includes a residential program with cottage and an interesting newsletter.
Freelance Editing and Proofreading Courses
Freelancers offers a course in freelance writing. The course includes: concepts of editing and proofreading, style, layout, spellings, common mistakes, etc. Also includes a Santorini, a short manuscript as you would see it after it has been copyedited.
Intuitive Voice Creative Writing Workshops
Innovative workshops to help writers find their authentic voices, hone craft, and create with ease. Supportive online coaching is also available.
Writers' Helper.Org - Online Writers' Classes
Nonprofit organization dedicated to the Christian writer: free resources, online classes with published Christian authors.
In Her Own Write
Pamela Garrett provides writing services for a fee, as well as limited writer resources. Pamela has researched, developed, and written materials for public relations and public information, marketing and advertising, education and training, fund raising,
TV Writer.com
Television writing explained by award winning writer/producer Larry Brody.
Bay Area Fiction Workshop
Fiction writing workshops in the San Francisco area. May provide a model for setting up workshops in other communities. Includes characterization, dialogue, and point of view.
Creativity Workshop
Helps develop the creative process through memoir, creative writing, visual arts and storytelling exercises. Helps to expand perception and find ways of looking at one's life and work as exciting and transformative.
The Red Room Writers Society
Writing program that blasts through writer's block in a historic San Francisco mansion. Fiction, memoir, and screenplays.
The Writers Studio
A 15-year old writing school located in New York City offering continuous 10-week beginning and advanced workshops in Fiction and Poetry, online classes, and private tutorials.
Field's End
Field's End is a writers' community on Bainbridge Island, Washington, offering workshops, lectures, and courses for literary writers. Field's End exists to inspire writers and nurture the written word through instruction in the art and craft of writing.
Just Write! Writing Team
Offers programs designed to support new and emerging writers who are at the stage where they would benefit from professional input. Includes staff profiles, information on workshops, and archive of newsletter issues.
The Write Coach
Coaching and workshops to increase motivation, release blocks, build confidence, increase creativity and assist both professional and aspiring writers to become more successful.
Red Writing
Learn poetry lingo and submit a piece or critique to our online workshop. Open to fiction, non-fiction, free-verse poetry, or formed.
Performance Learning Strategies
Customized workshops to help adults read, write and think more efficiently and effectively.
Creative Writing Programs at Bowling Green State University
One of the oldest established programs in the country, Creative Writing at Bowling Green State University offers both BFA and MFA degrees and has an outstanding record of graduate success in publication and career preparation.
The Nuts and Bolts of College Writing
Comprehensive but concise, practical and example-filled, award-winning guide to writing college essays. Free.
WritersOnlineWorkshops
From Writer's Digest, offering interactive, instructor-led online creative writing courses in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and memoir writing.
The Writing School at Quality of Course Inc.
Writing courses by correspondence. Teaches short story, article, memoir, and business communications. Learn to write with interactive help from professionals.
The Writing Academy
Christian writers school with correspondence courses aimed at improving written communications.
Affordable Online Writing Courses
Freelancer offers a variety of inexpensive correspondence courses on writing: freelancing, nonfiction articles, short fiction, fiction writing, query letters, plotting, editing & critiquing.
Associated Writing Programs
AWP is a nonprofit service organization for writers. Hosts annual writing conference and many activities for writers. Site includes articles, career resources, literary links, and a wealth of information. Since 1967, AWP has supported writers and writing
Writing Bliss
Site features e-mail courses and workshops for writers.
The Writers' Workshop, Asheville NC
The Writers' Workshop offers year-round classes in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, journalism, and screenwriting.
ClearWriter
An online system of tools, training, and resources that improve business and professional writing. Offers 12 hours of training. Aids with structure, clarity, conciseness, and precision.
Timepieces Personal Biographies-Learn how to write Family History Biographies
TimePieces personal biographies offers your personal family history in a published book written by a talented professional writer and seminars on how to do it yourself.
Cynthia Gallaher's Creative Writing Workshops
Trainer's page offers workshops at Midwestern library, school or arts organizations. Includes poetry writing, journal writing, nature writing, and children's workshops.
Quest Writing Lab
Provides individualized writing instruction and tutorial assistance in grammar, composition, and other aspects of writing. Especially useful in writing mechanics.
WriteDirections
Teleclasses, publications, and coaching help writers jump-start and complete their books and articles. Free weekly newsletters, tips, and resources. Fiction, nonfiction, business writing, networking, writer's block.
Writing Classes: Writing-Classes.Net
Classes on craft of magazine writing, how to write your life story, or how to become a travel writer.
elitelit
Focuses on workshops but also offers exercises, a monthly article, and a story starter tool "based on the creativity technique called "random input."
LR Communication Systems, Inc.
Writing courses and seminars, technical writing programs, presentation skills training with online, on-site, self-study, and correspondence options. Focus on business communications.
Coffeehouse for Writers Online Workshops
Online workshops for writers featuring personal interaction with your instructor and classmates to help you discover your writing potential, feedback, motivation, inspiration, and advice from your peers.
Murawski Group
On-site training in business writing.
The Writers Workshop
Online and oncampus writing program specializing in creative nonfiction, narrative nonfiction, literary journalism, nonfiction books, memoir and short stories.
Proofread.com
Dedicated to writing better at work, proofread.com provides free writing resources. Our corporate seminar, Write Better at Work, is the best training of its kind.
The American University of Paris Online Writing Lab
Active and useful online writing lab offering resources on grammar, essays, summaries, research papers, MLA style, Turabian style, quotations, plagiarism, and cover letters.
The Writing School
The Myth Breakers school teaches writing by home-based curriculum. Geared for those who wish to write copy for selling or promoting goods or services.
StoryStudio Chicago
Writing and related arts center in Chicago offering creative writing classes, customized workshops for businesses, individual instruction and writing coaching.
Rabbit Hill Writers Online
Online writing workshops for beginning and intermediate writers of short fiction, creative nonfiction, the novel, screenwriting, and memoirs.
Writer's Best Friend: A Site For People Needing A Little Extra Help With Their Writing
A proofreading service to help students polish writing before submitting it for a grade or review.
Editing International, LLC
Exceptionally active series of "Passport Seminars" (in US and British Columbia) covering editing/revision, marketing, fiction and nonfiction craft, planning, brainstorminbg, and the writer's life.
Technical Writing Tests
Tests that can be used to evaluates the skills of prospective technical writers.
Centauri Arts Summer Writing Retreat
Short residential courses in Creative Writing, located in Bethany, Ontario.
Young Writers Workshop
Workshop on using informal, playful expressive writing as a way to strengthen skills of language and thinking.
The Writing Solution, Inc.
Instructional design and training development services for businesses and corporations. Writer's coach service to assist technical or web writers in developing clear communications.
Writing Coach - Dr. Cindy Shearer
The Art of Writing - How to Write Fiction - Creating Non-fiction stories. Writing Coach for Screenplays - Writing Book Proposals - Business Writing Coach
Writing courses and critique service for all writers.
First-class home-study creative writing course from professional writers. Earn while you learn. Full refund guarantee if not successful.
Online courses, email tutorials, and writing evaluations for homeschoolers, professionals, and anyone else who wants to improve his writing.
An interactive writing workshop for beginners and intermediate fiction and nonfiction writers.
How to improve your business writing & reading Skills. Uses workbook and on-line courses.
Writing teacher helps each student free her or his writing voice. In this container - whether it's a class, workshop, retreat or individual session - each person feels nurtured and safe, allowing her to risk revealing the complexity and fullness of her ex
Former FBI agent, attorney, and author, offering writing workshops and consulting services.
An on-line course to teach basic through advanced English writing skills to all ages, focusing on learning to write essays. Grammar and vocabulary are taught in each unit covering a variety of writing types.
Non-profit organization for the empowerment of women through writing. Site provides details of regional workshops and a wealth of useful information about services and benefits available to IWWG members. No portfolio is required.
Workshops for writers focusing on completing a manuscript.
The Windmill Writing Workshop, a non-profit organisation, runs creative writing workshops & retreats in Majorca, the Balearic Islands, Spain every autumn.
The CalArts Writing MFA is neither a "creative" nor a "critical" writing program -- instead it attempts to question and provoke the mutations that occur in forms and styles of writing and reading.
This Creative Writing Lesson deals with Writer's Block and how to get rid of it. Offers several resources on freelance writing.
Critique forum for writers, with archive of submissions.
"We called him Tortoise, because he taught us," they said. Dr. Haarhoff teaches wholistically with courses that suit corporate clients and individuals. Available for settings throughout South Africa.
Our 27th summer workshop from July 27-29 for aspiring and accomplished writers features sessions on mystery, romance, children's, poetry, fiction, non-fiction. Richard Lederer, keynoter.
The Claremont Graduate University Writing Center offers an active online writing resource for graduate level students. Offers transdisciplinary programs that encourage collaboration and communication. The goal is to help students negotiate the challenges
Creative writing courses in picturesque UK countryside. Features the idea of 'whole person' writing, with emphasis on the imagination and creative expression. Students are encouraged to be "literary pyromaniacs" - finding ways to kindle fire and
The Writing Space was founded in Toronto in 1990 as a small press and writers' organization. Workshops are available from The School of the Writing Space. Publications include fiction, poetry, non-fiction, interviews and a twice-yearly literary journal
Provides writing instruction and publishes annual anthology in affiliation with TallGrass Writers Guild, a non-profit writers organization/resource.
Nita Sweeney offers classes in Columbus, Ohio, based on many years of study with best-selling auther, Natalie Goldberg.
International on-line writers group with an emphasis on education. Over 130 fiction, non-fiction and poetry writing courses and workshops are available to members. Other features include e-zine, weekly chats, discussion forums and live site guides. New m
Post your stories, poetry, essays, or anything else you're working on. Free feedback.
Fishtrap promotes clear thinking and good writing in and about the west through year round workshops, gatherings and writers' retreats.
Links and resources for attendees of writing seminar and visitors to this website.
A nonprofit memoir writing project for women. Begun in 1996 as a community memoir writing project for women, Herstory reaches out to give narrative tools to women who might not ordinarily have access to high quality writing instruction. Partially tuition
Offers online classes for writers. Discussions are held twice a week for ten weeks in assigned chatrooms. Students can post their work in classroom message boards to get peer feedback.
Earn an Online Certificate in Technical Writing.
British page with links to other interesting sites, discussion groups, research material, and advice for troubleshooting with publishers and agents.
Specializing in self-actualization and meditation, this site includes writing therapy: journaling and creative writing.
One-week retreats in legendary Mexican village for writers of fiction and literary non-fiction.
Workshops in poetry, short story, essay, and songwriting.
The Writers' retreat offers a broad spectrum of coursework and literary services and provides short residency workshops.
Copywriting, creative and technical writing workshops, seminars, and training. Lessons from Sallianne Norelli (copywriter and children’s book author).
Offers writing workshops in-house and online, manuscript critique, a reading series, and online writing resources including discussion forums and generative exercises.
Summer writing workshop for high school students in Santa Fe, NM.
Web site hosted by national educational publisher providing writing assessment and evaluation models, lesson plans, annotated writing models, interactive quizzes, study guides, and practice in proofreading, spelling, grammar, vocabulary.
This workshop explains self-publishing process, costs and manuscript requirements.
Learn about contracts, royalties, copyright, e-books, and printing costs.
The LSJ offers fiction writing courses, news journalism courses and freelance journalism courses by distance learning. Also offered are courses for short story writing, thriller writing, cartooning and English for business. Established in 1920, LSJ has an
Join various mailing list workshops such as poetry, fiction, flash fiction, romance, novels, and non-fiction. Post and receive critiques of work, plus critique other works. Discuss the finer points of writing.
Professional writing skills, communication skills, speaking skills, English grammar, writing skills - seminars and workshops in indianapolis indiana.
Pathways to explore deep within the individual and the collective creative process. Programs offered: Cosmic Footprints, Wanna Write, Trance Formations.
Delightful website for writers of children's books. Holds regular monthly workshops in Victoria, Australia. Also offers manuscript assessment service for children's books.
Free online writing course for technical and fiction writers. School for Championships features free online writing course. Covers screen writing, children's stories, and technical writing.
Offers downloadable book, Better Writing Skills, to help with business, thesis, technical and creative writing.
Publish poetry, drama, fiction, non-fiction and reviews. Comprehensive information on writing related courses, careers, competitions, events, and reviews. Interactive features include a bulletin board, chat, and online workshops.
Interactive site created to help students improve English reading, writing and listening skills.
An author presents workshops that provide aspiring authors with the knowledge, skills and confidence to get published.
Non-profit organization offering email courses for Jewish writers including journalism, memoir, fiction, grant writing, publishing and poetry. Courses are interactive and fee based. Editing and critique service also offered.
Classes on Maui are offered to small groups of writers.
Interesting collection of links and services for writers. Offers a home study course on writing.
Online courses taught by experienced professionals: Magazine Writing, Short Fiction, Poetry, Life Story, Travel, Screenwriting, Creative Training, Editing, Technical, and Grantwriting.
Local writers group in the Western Catskills (Delware County, New York). Workshops include Journal, Fiction, Poetry, Play-writing, as well as advanced workshops where manuscripts are critiqued.
Located ten miles north of Boston. Offers creative writing workshops, retreats and seminars.
Boston Screenwriting Workshop provides classes for beginning to professional screenwriters in the New England area. Targets writers who are "serious about writing and can't go to UCLA or NYU Film School."
Tips on how to write more concisely and crisply. Learn to eliminate errors and communicate more effectively with your intended audience.
Writing workshops and courses designed for managers, supervisors, professionals and administrative staff.
Tools to achieve highest standards of professional writing, both in law and in business.
Licensed social worker offers help to writers via phone and telecourses. A unique approach to writer's needs.
Year-round school of creative writing classes located in San Francisco's Bernal Heights. Fiction, poetry, personal essays, memoirs, screenwriting, playwriting, and magazine writing. Nine and five-week courses; also one-day workshops.
This online university offers more than 200 continuing education courses in 18 different schools.
The attic is a unique writer's workshop (and haven) in Portland. Visit to read about workshops and enjoy the atmosphere in this writing community.
Helps writers develop discipline, balance and structure in life and writing.
An on-line writing tutorial. This site takes users through the actual steps of writing a paragraph. Supplementary information also included.
Entertaining lessons by New Zealand writer Craig Lock. Two free lessons and lessons for sale regarding articles, poetry, short stories, novels, autobiographies and books.
Julie Ferguson's Beacon Literary Services feature e-booklets on writing. Julie is an author and speaker/trainer who presents at the Surrey International Writers' Conference and teaches for the Surrey Creative Writing Diploma program.
Serene Rocky Mountains retreat with professional, personal writing instruction. Monthly free tips and exercises. Monthly newsletter delivers even more to your site. 4-day and week long workshops. Contest.
Creative writing classes offered online and in NYC in writing fiction, screenplays, nonfiction, poetry, memoirs, novels, mysteries, romances, TV sitcoms, children's books, science fiction, and writing for business.
This unique site offers resources for writing teachers and home schooling parents who are teaching students to write outside the institutional setting.
Creative writing courses for aspiring writers including residential weekend courses in picturesque Devon UK.
Detailed descriptions of hundreds of writing conferences, seminars and workshops worldwide. Searchable by state, country, specialty, keyword. Includes calendar of upcoming programs.
A Writer's Workshop for Creative Writers. Includes a residential program with cottage and an interesting newsletter.
Freelancers offers a course in freelance writing. The course includes: concepts of editing and proofreading, style, layout, spellings, common mistakes, etc. Also includes a Santorini, a short manuscript as you would see it after it has been copyedited.
Innovative workshops to help writers find their authentic voices, hone craft, and create with ease. Supportive online coaching is also available.
Nonprofit organization dedicated to the Christian writer: free resources, online classes with published Christian authors.
Pamela Garrett provides writing services for a fee, as well as limited writer resources. Pamela has researched, developed, and written materials for public relations and public information, marketing and advertising, education and training, fund raising,
Television writing explained by award winning writer/producer Larry Brody.
Fiction writing workshops in the San Francisco area. May provide a model for setting up workshops in other communities. Includes characterization, dialogue, and point of view.
Helps develop the creative process through memoir, creative writing, visual arts and storytelling exercises. Helps to expand perception and find ways of looking at one's life and work as exciting and transformative.
Writing program that blasts through writer's block in a historic San Francisco mansion. Fiction, memoir, and screenplays.
A 15-year old writing school located in New York City offering continuous 10-week beginning and advanced workshops in Fiction and Poetry, online classes, and private tutorials.
Field's End is a writers' community on Bainbridge Island, Washington, offering workshops, lectures, and courses for literary writers. Field's End exists to inspire writers and nurture the written word through instruction in the art and craft of writing.
Offers programs designed to support new and emerging writers who are at the stage where they would benefit from professional input. Includes staff profiles, information on workshops, and archive of newsletter issues.
Coaching and workshops to increase motivation, release blocks, build confidence, increase creativity and assist both professional and aspiring writers to become more successful.
Learn poetry lingo and submit a piece or critique to our online workshop. Open to fiction, non-fiction, free-verse poetry, or formed.
Customized workshops to help adults read, write and think more efficiently and effectively.
One of the oldest established programs in the country, Creative Writing at Bowling Green State University offers both BFA and MFA degrees and has an outstanding record of graduate success in publication and career preparation.
Comprehensive but concise, practical and example-filled, award-winning guide to writing college essays. Free.
From Writer's Digest, offering interactive, instructor-led online creative writing courses in fiction, nonfiction, poetry, and memoir writing.
Writing courses by correspondence. Teaches short story, article, memoir, and business communications. Learn to write with interactive help from professionals.
Christian writers school with correspondence courses aimed at improving written communications.
Freelancer offers a variety of inexpensive correspondence courses on writing: freelancing, nonfiction articles, short fiction, fiction writing, query letters, plotting, editing & critiquing.
AWP is a nonprofit service organization for writers. Hosts annual writing conference and many activities for writers. Site includes articles, career resources, literary links, and a wealth of information. Since 1967, AWP has supported writers and writing
Site features e-mail courses and workshops for writers.
The Writers' Workshop offers year-round classes in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, journalism, and screenwriting.
An online system of tools, training, and resources that improve business and professional writing. Offers 12 hours of training. Aids with structure, clarity, conciseness, and precision.
TimePieces personal biographies offers your personal family history in a published book written by a talented professional writer and seminars on how to do it yourself.
Trainer's page offers workshops at Midwestern library, school or arts organizations. Includes poetry writing, journal writing, nature writing, and children's workshops.
Provides individualized writing instruction and tutorial assistance in grammar, composition, and other aspects of writing. Especially useful in writing mechanics.
Teleclasses, publications, and coaching help writers jump-start and complete their books and articles. Free weekly newsletters, tips, and resources. Fiction, nonfiction, business writing, networking, writer's block.
Classes on craft of magazine writing, how to write your life story, or how to become a travel writer.
Focuses on workshops but also offers exercises, a monthly article, and a story starter tool "based on the creativity technique called "random input."
Writing courses and seminars, technical writing programs, presentation skills training with online, on-site, self-study, and correspondence options. Focus on business communications.
Online workshops for writers featuring personal interaction with your instructor and classmates to help you discover your writing potential, feedback, motivation, inspiration, and advice from your peers.
On-site training in business writing.
Online and oncampus writing program specializing in creative nonfiction, narrative nonfiction, literary journalism, nonfiction books, memoir and short stories.
Dedicated to writing better at work, proofread.com provides free writing resources. Our corporate seminar, Write Better at Work, is the best training of its kind.
Active and useful online writing lab offering resources on grammar, essays, summaries, research papers, MLA style, Turabian style, quotations, plagiarism, and cover letters.
The Myth Breakers school teaches writing by home-based curriculum. Geared for those who wish to write copy for selling or promoting goods or services.
Writing and related arts center in Chicago offering creative writing classes, customized workshops for businesses, individual instruction and writing coaching.
Online writing workshops for beginning and intermediate writers of short fiction, creative nonfiction, the novel, screenwriting, and memoirs.
A proofreading service to help students polish writing before submitting it for a grade or review.
Exceptionally active series of "Passport Seminars" (in US and British Columbia) covering editing/revision, marketing, fiction and nonfiction craft, planning, brainstorminbg, and the writer's life.
Tests that can be used to evaluates the skills of prospective technical writers.
Short residential courses in Creative Writing, located in Bethany, Ontario.
Workshop on using informal, playful expressive writing as a way to strengthen skills of language and thinking.
Instructional design and training development services for businesses and corporations. Writer's coach service to assist technical or web writers in developing clear communications.
The Art of Writing - How to Write Fiction - Creating Non-fiction stories. Writing Coach for Screenplays - Writing Book Proposals - Business Writing Coach
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The New Paganism and the Culture of Death
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A desperate Cry for help
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Renewing Britain`s Legacy of Innovation
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