134 Part-time Short courses in Creative Writing

This Blogging and writing for online audiences course from the University of Cambridge will help students develop the wide range of skills needed to become sustainable, safe and ethical bloggers.

If you have a true story to tell and have been wondering how to start writing about it, this Writing the Memoir course offered by City St George's, University of London workshop is for you.

You love to write and you've been writing for a while, developing your style and honing your skills. You may already have taken a creative writing class or you've been working hard on your own. University of Strathclyde offers the Creative Writing Mentoring programme.

This Creative Writing Level Two course at Nottingham Trent University follows on from the Creative Writing for Beginners daytime course, giving you a chance to take your writing drafts and ideas and develop them further with the support of your tutor and a committed group of fellow writers.

Have you always wanted to write a novel? Whether you’ve got a great idea but aren’t sure how to begin or have an unfinished manuscript gathering dust under your bed, this Novel Writing - Developing Characters, Settings and Plot course at Nottingham Trent University will offer exercises and advice to get your novel underway.

Embark on a psychological thriller, a crime novel, or your very own collection of blood-curdling short stories on this Thrills and Chills - Writing Crime, Suspense and Horror course at Nottingham Trent University and chill your readers and raise the stakes.

This Writing for Publication course at Forth Valley College considers the different possible ways to have your work published so that it can be discovered by a public readership.

This Advanced Creative Writing course at Kingston College offers an opportunity to writers to enlarge upon their existing practice.

This Advanced Freelance Writing course from Warnborough College is an advanced course and is most suited to those who have some experience and pre-existing skills in Freelance Writing but want to improve their approach and technique. 

This online Editing Practice course from Warnborough College will teach you how to edit content and prepare layouts. 

You can learn how to write a biography with this Warnborough College Biographical Writing online course – developed by industry experts!

This An Introduction to Screenwriting online course from University of East Anglia delivered through FutureLearn explores the key concepts and fundamental principles involved in the process of screenwriting.

This Writing and Editing - Word Choice and Word Order course offered by Coursera in partnership with University of Michigan is part of  the Good with Words: Writing and Editing Specialization.

EdX is an online learning platform trusted by over 12 million users offering the Grant Writing and Crowdfunding for Public Libraries course in collaboration with University of Michigan - MichiganX. Learn how to increase your impact, innovate, and overcome often static funding through various fundraising and grant writing approaches.

This stimulating Creative Writing course from Warnborough College will develop your ability to write a good story and to think more critically about your writing. 

One aspect of this Writing Fiction course from Warnborough College involves both factual information geared to developing an understanding of processes. Another major part of this course involves you undertaking practical tasks of writing pieces of your own fiction; and analyzing the writing of other authors.

At IELTS Preparation from Inlingua you will gain the skills you need to pass the IELTS test with your desired score.

Whereas Malmö University's previous courses are centered primarily in pedagogies of process, this Creative Writing Project course also emphasizes product, culminating in the production, or completion, of a substantial and polished project, such as a novella or brief short story collection for fiction writers or a chapbook for poets.

University College London (UCL)'s Crafting Project Narratives online short course will give you the skills you need to use to craft narratives in projects and megaprojects.

The Writing Non-Fiction course offered by Warnborough College will help you learn how to write non-fiction to become a professional writer.