Michelle Thompson's List: Writing - Courses, Classes & Workshops

Creative Writing Courses

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Writer's News magazine - the website includes subscription forms for the physical magazine, and links to home study courses, an active set of community boards, competition details, and U.K. writing news stories.

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Holly Lisle's Online Writing Career course, How to Think Sideways. For 6 or 12 months. Excellent course, full of content and explanation. Thoroughly recommended.

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Free Courses for Writers - 100 listed.

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Elizabeth Stark's blog, with links to her online writing courses (currently supporting NaNoWriMo efforts). Elizabeth provides editing services also. The blog features a lot on writing.

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The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) holds many of its courses as free online and open to anyone. Look for writing coursework on here, under the humanistic and writing category, or literature.

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The Open University in the UK offers free courses via its OpenLearn and LearnSpace online offerings. This is the Start Writing Fiction free online course. Check for others via OpenLearn also.

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The University of Utah offers an Introduction to Creative Writing and Introduction to Shakespeare free and online. Download the courseware for the Creative Writing course from this page

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The Renegade Writer provides regular e-courses, including -
Travel Writing
Food Writing
Trade Magazines, and Magazine Writing
Freelance Writing Business
Story Ideas
Non-Fiction
Blogging

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Workshops and study guides which live up to their website name - they are affordable

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Yearly online writers conference for a week.

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Rob Parnell's Easy Way to Write contains several different writing courses - which are delivered via email installments. If you sign up for the newsletter, you will also receive copious writing tips, and free ebook courses.

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Excellent online workshops, by the publishers of Writer's Digest. WOW courses are available in several genres, and you have access to experienced tutors to help through the course.

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Absolute Write has two newsletters to sign up to - and you will receive free listings of agents or job markets on signup. The site also sells ebooks, and software for writers, provides a writers directory, a large library of articles on writing, and a healthy writers forum called the Water Cooler. There are also classes / courses sold onsite which vary in content and duration.

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Writer Crash Test.com features video critiques of writing work. It is a small website off the How to Think Sideways e-course of Holly Lisles.

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Freeware writing project organiser. Includes elements (characters, settings, events) with annotations, structure maps and timelines.

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