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Unlock your writing potential with online professional writing classes. From creative writing to technical writing, these courses offer valuable skills and expert guidance to help you become a versatile and accomplished writer.

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Online Submissions Workshop

The Writers Studio

The Writers Studio has been helping writers online for 20 years using our custom, easy to use online classrooms. Our online students publish, win awards, and achieve full creative expression. Students get personal feedback from the teacher every week. Learn how to submit your fiction, poetry or memoir writing for publication in literary journals. Now that you’ve finished your written work, how do you get it published? This six-week workshop...

(7) All levels 18 and older
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$325

6 sessions

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From the Page to the Stage: A One-Person Show Workshop

Writing Pad

Are you an actor or a comedian yearning for your 15 minutes of fame? A solo-show could help launch your re you an actor or a comedian yearning for your 15 minutes of fame? A solo-show could help launch your career and get you the attention that you deserve. Or maybe you have a solo show but want to take it to the next level? In this intensive two-week Online Solo Show Workshop, actress and writer Lauren Weedman (The Kominsky Method, 10 award-winning...

(59) All levels 16 and older
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Online Writing In A Pandemic

The Writers Studio

How do you write during a global pandemic? One way: Turn to earlier writers for help. While the coronavirus may be new, pandemics aren’t. From past pandemics both real and imagined, there’s a wealth of good writing you can use as a model for your own work. This six-week online writing workshop follows The Writers Studio’s approach to teaching creative writing by offering exercises based on the personas used in works by published writers. For...

(7) All levels 18 and older
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$325

6 sessions

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Constructing the Short Story

SF Creative Writing Institute

This four-week workshop will lead you through the construction of a short story, from conception to revision, with the goal of having a potentially publishable piece to submit to literary journals or genre fiction magazines by the end of the class. Students will read two short stories per week, develop a story of their own through exercises and drafting, critique one another’s first draft, and then submit a revised piece at the beginning of the...

(6) All levels 18 and older
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The Art of the Chapbook

SF Creative Writing Institute @ 25 Taylor St, San Francisco, CA

Chapbooks are an art and a craft. The format is increasingly popular in the indie lit world and a calling card for many respected poets. In this course, we will develop manuscripts for publication in chapbook form that are “market ready.” Even if you feel you haven’t yet generated enough material to put a chap collection together, we’ve got you covered. The workshop will also go over the various options for publication, distribution, and...

(6) All levels 18 and older
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$375

6 sessions

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TV and Screenwriting Representation

Writing Pad

Do you have that killer pilot or movie script that’s dying to be sold but you have no idea how to get it to the right person? The best way to get a manager is to know one. Enter Chad Snopek, manager of Mark Friedman (Executive Producer, Fox’s “Wayward Pines”) and producer, to take you through the process of finding literary representation. In this Online TV and Screenwriter Representation workshop, Chad will give you an overview of the...

(59) All levels 16 and older
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$225
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TV Drama Pitching: Sell It In the Room

Writing Pad

You’ve worked hard to hone that super-fly Drama or Dramedy pilot premise with great characters, a compelling world, and an amazing pilot episode. So what’s next, a pitch meeting with a network exec, perhaps? How about a huge opportunity to learn pitching, branding techniques and pitch your show in front of an executive who develops shows for ABC? Enter Nathan Varni Director of Current Programming, Disney-ABC Television Group. In this two-day...

(59) All levels 18 and older
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$225

2 sessions

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Online Poetry For Everyone

The Writers Studio

The Writers Studio has been helping writers online for 20 years using our custom, easy to use online classrooms. Our online students publish, win awards, and achieve full creative expression. Students get personal feedback from the teacher every week. Are you a dedicated prose writer, but sometimes just want to write a poem? (As Vladimir Nabokov wrote, “You have to saturate yourself with English poetry in order to compose English prose.”) Have...

(7) All levels 18 and older
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$375

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Experimental Writing: Poetry & Lyric Essay

SF Creative Writing Institute

Are you a poet always on the brink of a narrative essay, or a fiction writer who craves genre-breaking inspiration? Do you write creative nonfiction but feel there’s something lackluster in your approach? Or are you new to writing and looking for an entry point? Let’s face it, these past few years have been anything but commonplace – and we need fresh writing to reflect what’s transpired in our society, and within each of us. In this 6-week...

(6) All levels 18 and older
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$395

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Poetry of Reclamation

SF Creative Writing Institute

Uncover the sacred stories that shape your journey and explore the myths and memories that intertwine with your personal narratives. Join this four-week poetry workshop and embark on a profound journey of self-discovery through the power of words. Find your voice and connect with others as you delve into the complexities of life's patterns and unveil the constants of your inner world.

(6) All levels 18 and older
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$395

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Over-50 Memoir Workshop (Ages 50+)

The Writers Studio

Unleash your storytelling skills and embark on a transformative journey with our online workshop that guides aspiring memoir writers aged 50 and above. Dive into the art of memoir writing, exploring different narrative techniques and learning from established authors in the genre. Join us to unravel the truths of your life and craft a compelling memoir that will resonate with readers.

(7) All levels 21 and older
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$385

6 sessions

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Online Crafting Fantastic and Imaginative Worlds

The Writers Studio

Your favorite writers and poets of speculative literature (including science fiction, fantasy, and horror) use narrative techniques like persona narrators, point of view, and tone as well as worldbuilding to craft fantastic and imaginative worlds that parallel, reflect, and critique our own real world. Imagining utopias, dystopias, dinosaurs, aliens, monsters, magical beings and systems, and sentient cities and starships to speculate about past...

(7) All levels 18 and older
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$385

6 sessions

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Writing and Managing Effective Requirements

New Horizons Computer Learning

Successful projects are built on the foundation of a clearly defined business need and well-understood requirements. This course provides students a clear understanding of all the facets of the business analysis role, including a thorough walkthrough of the various domain/knowledge areas that comprise the business analysis profession. Students are provided an opportunity to try their hand at several business analysis techniques to assist with improving...

(8) Intermediate 18 and older
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Personal Narrative for the Actor

The Barrow Group Acting School @ 312 W 36th St, New York, NY

As actors, our calling is to inhabit the lives and stories of others. In this introductory workshop we will begin to investigate the power of our own urgent lives and personal lore and explore our human urge to stand up and tell, create a funny podcast or write an intimate essay or monologue. We will generate the seeds to craft the material of our own narratives. “Know Thyself,” Socrates counseled.  For the performer, this is a wise imperative....

(66) Intermediate 18 and older
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$245
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Meditative Writing: Healing Your Inner Artist

Meditative Writing

You know you are meant to create but you haven't been creating. Or perhaps you sit down but the process feels empty. Perhaps you haven't picked up your pen, paintbrush, guitar, or ballet slippers in months, days, years.   You are suffering but don't know what to do or where to start.  Or maybe you just might want to do some preventative care, knowing that the road will be hard ahead, so you want to give yourself the...

(5) All levels 18 and older
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$375

6 sessions

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Meditative Writing Level 2: Structure, Rewriting

Meditative Writing @ Virtual Classroom

Meditative Writing Level 2: Structure, Rewriting & Character Development Advanced meditations for rewriting, structure, emotional intelligence, dialogue, pitching, backstory and more! ​Discover seven new meditations created specifically for you and your project.     Prerequisite: Meditative Writing Level 1 or a Level 2 class (within the past two years)

(5) Intermediate 18 and older
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$425

5 sessions

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Meditative Writing Level 2 (duplicate)

Meditative Writing

Advanced meditations for rewriting, structure, emotional intelligence, dialogue, pitching, backstory and more! ​Discover seven new meditations created specifically for you and your project.  Prerequisite: Meditative Writing Level 1 or a Level 2 class (within the past two years)

(5) Intermediate 18 and older
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$425

5 sessions

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Screenwriting Alchemy

Meditative Writing

4 Week workshop for Screenwriters, TV writers, & Web series creators First, middle, or final drafts. Learn how to turn any pages - into great ones.  Cliche transforms into familiar but different, expository morphs into extraordinary, confusing into profound, and average into extraordinary.  ​Discover how to shape-shift for the creation of a magnificent screenplay.  In this workshop, we focus on you. Your mind, Your story,...

(5) All levels 18 and older
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$399

4 sessions

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Meditative Writing Level 1

Meditative Writing

Meditative Writing Level One: The Process of Creativity & Story Mining At the intersection of science, art, and meditation we build an approach to writing that draws from the most powerful part of your mind. Cognitive and meditative exercises will be crafted specifically to help you get the most out of every writing session and discover the deepest truth of your unique voice. ​These tools can also be flipped upside-down to create profound...

(5) Beginner 18 and older
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$375

4 sessions

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Screenwriting Craft: The Ultimate Toolbox

Meditative Writing

Level up your screenwriting craft skills. Train to be a smarter, stronger, more prolific screenwriter.  This is 12 week lecture-based class breaking down advanced screenwriting craft tools.  Never stare at your script without knowing how to approach rewriting your script again. Finish your scripts sooner by understanding how and when to use these tools.  Avoid writing an average script by following all the other...

(5) All levels 18 and older
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