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Writers.com is a warm, welcoming space for all writers. Explore the joy and craft of writing in our inclusive community, join our online courses and coaching for personal feedback from our award-winning instructors, and explore our writing tools and resources. Wherever you are in your journey, we’re here to help you.
Our Online Writing Courses Are...
Fully Digital
Join and participate from anywhere. A laptop or tablet is all you'll need.
Friendly and Welcoming
We can't wait to meet you and support your writing!
Open to All
We welcome writers of all backgrounds, experience levels, genres, and styles.
Online Writing Courses Starting Soon:
November courses, finding confidence and motivation in your writing, with sarah aronson.
Liberate yourself from imposter syndrome and the inner critic, and discover confidence in every stage of the writing process.
Creative Nonfiction , Fiction , Lifestyle and Wellness , Live Workshop , Memoir , Novel , Personal Essay , Short Story
Food Writing: Meals And Manuscripts
With jennifer billock.
Do you love cookbooks, cooking, or reading anything about food? This food writing course is for you. With award winning writer Jennifer Billock.
Creative Nonfiction , Lifestyle and Wellness , Personal Essay
Make Art/Poetry in the Face of Change
With susan vespoli.
Course full. Contact us to join waitlist.
In a time of change, uncertainty, and shift, we need the art of poetry more than ever. For the next 3 weeks, we'll write poetry that connects us to each other and helps us witness change.
Lifestyle and Wellness , Poetry
Nature’s Muse: Finding Inspiration through the Changing Seasons
With elizabeth winder.
Galvanize your creative practice by deepening your connection to the natural world. Discover inspiration in the changing seasons, and generate fresh new writing.
Creative Nonfiction , Fiction , Lifestyle and Wellness , Memoir , Novel , Personal Essay , Poetry , Short Story
The Checklist: Perfect Your Novel’s Opening Pages
With carla damron.
Nail your opening pages! Apply the 11 core elements your novel opening must get right, and hook readers and agents into your story.
Fiction , Novel
December Courses
The only submission workshop you will ever need, with meghan sterling.
How do you get your poems in literary journals? This two part webinar shows you the ropes for getting your work published, read, and celebrated.
Live Workshop , Poetry
From Memory: Writing Fiction or Memoir from Lived Experience
With chin-sun lee.
In this class, you'll use a nearly infinite resource—your own memory—to craft compelling fiction or nonfiction stories.
Creative Nonfiction , Fiction , Memoir , Novel , Personal Essay , Short Story
New Year, Novel Draft: Start the Year Off Right!
With paz pardo.
Get one-to-one feedback on up to 50,000 words of a draft, write or revise 12,000 more, and set yourself up to have a polished draft in the new year.
Fiction , Novel , Short Story
Warp and Weft: Weaving Free Verse Poetry from Life
With anna scotti.
Weave everyday events into deftly-written free verse poems in this generative, creativity-centered poetry workshop.
Write into Mystery: Writing Flash Memoir on Wonder and the Unexplained
With joanna penn cooper.
We often encounter wonder, mystery, and the unexplained in our everyday lives. Turn those experiences into flash essays in this community-centered course.
Creative Nonfiction , Personal Essay
Online Writing Course Categories
Lifestyle and Wellness
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Personal Essay
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Student testimonials.
It was so fantastic working with other serious writers and getting their input. I have taken part in other writer critique groups, but I felt that the difference here is that everyone who came in is really serious about the craft.
I managed to revise and rewrite the first half of my novel during this course, and I have a plan for how to tackle the rest.
The ultimate success for me was that my husband could see a lot of improvement between the writing he saw in week 1 vs in week 10. Feeling inspired and empowered from this course!
-Nabila Zahur, novelist
This was my first course with Writers.com, and my first course in this global format (we had members from London, Australia, Denmark, and the US). It worked very well.
The course content was thoughtful, informative, and well-organized. The instructor was supportive and encouraging to all, and matched her level of critique to the level of the participant. I felt we were in the hands of a master and mentor, and it was a privilege to have her undivided attention eight times in two months.
-Fred Lindgren
Writers.com classes provide a great way to sharpen your writing skills and join a community of writers. Try a few- you won't be disappointed.
-Melissa DeCarlo, author of The Art Of Crash Landing (Harper Paperbacks/HarperCollins)
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Jonathan McClure’s professionalism is outstanding. His readings of attendees’ work are extensive and offered as in-line marginal annotations. He reads each piece through the author’s sensibility and register, offers relevant suggestions for rethinking a piece rather than alternative words or phrases, and addresses us as adults who are serious about craft and effect. His prompts in the classes are thoughtful, lucid, and provoke valuable effort. If he has a pet metier or school, I don’t know what it is, and hallelujah for that.
Christina Strasbourg — Writing with Consistency and Courage
Tamara Dean transformed my writing practice. Her approach is both compassionate and practical, providing the tools I needed to stay motivated and overcome self-doubt.
Ginger Moorhouse — The Body and Soul of Your Memoir
My experience was excellent. Caryn is knowledgeable as well as encouraging.
Linda Ennis — Creative Nonfiction
This was one of the most productive courses I have ever participated in and that is true due to the exceptional feedback from Nicole Hardy. She restored my hopes that writing can be a part of my life.
Alexis Damen — Stringing the Beads
This course was a great experience! I write for a living, but not personal essays, so I was challenged and learned a lot in a safe and judgment-free environment. Joanna is great at introducing new concepts and ways of writing in an easy-to-understand way. Her feedback and line edits are concise and helpful. It was also nice to give and receive comments from other writers taking the course.
Magalie Casimir — Telling the Stories Your Body Holds
Sarah Herrington’s class was an incredible experience. I drafted and published three essays. Taking this course, along with others led by Sarah, has inspired me to overcome my fears and confidently share my work with a broader audience.
Writing Paranormal Flash Fiction — Richard Hamon
I just finished an MFA in Creative Writing, and Julie was just as skillful, helpful, and encouraging as the professors who taught in my program.
Riva Feshbach — Tiny and True
This class was different than any of the other writing classes I have taken. It felt like a risk, but it really paid off. I think that my writing practice is much stronger as a result.
About Writers.com
The first writing school on the internet.
Since 1995, writers from over two hundred countries have visited Writers.com and thousands have completed our online writing classes. We are accessible 24-7 from any Internet connection in the world, uniting far-flung students with renowned instructors - all published, working writers with teaching experience- who offer feedback and encouragement.
Writing can be a lonely road but it doesn't have to be. Whether you're just beginning to write or polishing your next piece for publication, we can help. Let us provide inspiration, direction, community and deadlines to start you writing and keep you working.
Support And Constructive Criticism
You're never just a face in a crowd at Writers.com. Small groups keep our online classes lively and intimate.
Each class provides written lectures, projects and assignments, and discussion forums where you'll share your work with the instructor and the other students.
Best of all, a teacher offers insights on every project you submit. These critiques help identify the patterns that can plague even the most talented and experienced writers. So whether you're dusting off a grade-school passion or breaking onto the bestseller list, we can boost you up the ladder a few rungs.
Can't bring yourself to share your work? We offer private classes, just you - or just you and a friend or two - working with the instructor. Click on private classes in the navigation bar at the top of the page to read more.
We also offer one-to-one services such as coaching and editing but it's highly recommended you take one of our classes first.
Writers.com commits to providing the best online writing classes for creative writers available anywhere. (If you're interested in learning other kinds of writing, such as business or technical writing, you can start with Hidden Front Door or a similar site.)
Caring And Community
Writers.com remains a rock in a sea of audit-only and feedback-light classes. We've had decades to fine-tune our approach, recruit top instructors and build a supportive network of writers. When you send us an email, you'll always hear back from a real person, not an auto-responder. And while you're in class, we're available to help seven days a week if you run into a problem or have a question.
Over a third of our alumni return to take a second class with us, and some have been taking our classes for 20 years or more. That's the highest compliment we can imagine - and it inspires us daily to keep growing as writers' needs and the literary landscape shift.
We pioneered teaching online writing classes. And we still do it with pleasure every day.
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