Creative writing
Explore our fantastic range of part-time, evening and weekend creative writing courses, from complete beginners right up to workshops for seasoned authors. You can try your hand at writing for children, poetry, autobiography, fiction writing, playwriting and more! Creative writing is one of London's most popular classes, so please book early!"I thought (my course) was brilliant, really relaxed and very clear. I like how (the tutor) led us into writing and then discussed what we had done afterwards, so it never felt too daunting."
Anon, Ways into creative writing
To find out more about our creative writing courses, contact us on 020 7492 2652 or email humanities@citylit.ac.uk
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- Advanced autobiographical writing
- Advanced critical workshop for creative writers
- Autobiographical writing
- Creating fiction
- Developing your writing
- How to write novels
- How to write short fiction
- Novel writing
- Paths through poetry
- Poetry in the making
- Poetry in the making with John Stammers
- Screenwriting: stage 2
- Writer's Club
- Writers' club
- Writing children's books workshop
- Writing comedy scripts stage 2
- A taste of creative writing
- Crime writing: an introduction
- English skills for creative writers
- Epublishing
- Exploring creativity: from words to stories
- Introduction to novel plotting
- The 60-minute writer
- Ways into creative writing
- Ways into creative writing: an introduction
- Write a short story in a weekend
- Writing a short film
- Writing comic prose
- Writing for children: a taster
- A taste of creative writing
- Adapting novels for TV, film and radio
- City Lit authors: Malika Booker introduces her performance poetry
- City Lit authors: Martina Evans reads and discusses her poetry
- City Lit authors: Nick Murray discusses his biographies
- City Lit authors: Scott Bradfield discusses his fiction
- City Lit authors: Zoe Fairbairns discusses her fiction
- English skills for creative writing
- Freelance journalism
- Inspiration or perspiration: An approach to creative writing
- Performance poetry
- Poetry workshop: what does the poem want
- Screenwriting for TV and cinema
- Summer salon: intensive writing workshop
- Summer shorts: an introduction to writing for the screen
- Summer shorts: short story writing
- Summer shorts: writing a short film in a week
- Summer shorts: writing soap and serial drama
- The poetry of the Periodic Table (creative writing)
- Towards a novel
- Travel writing workshop
- Unlocking your creativity
- Write a short story in a week
- Writing comedy scripts
- Writing crime fiction: from inspiration to publication
- Writing fictional diaries
- Writing for children: an introduction
- Writing for radio
- Writing for teenagers
- Writing for the city
- Writing poetry/writing fiction
- Writing science fiction
- Writing sports fiction
- Writing the city
- Concept gym: story development workshops
- Creative non-fiction
- Exploring fiction
- Furthering your creative writing
- Playwriting: stage 1 (continuation)
- Playwriting: stage 1 evening (continuation)
- Screenwriting: stage 1
- Short story writing
- Short story writing: an online course
- Short story writing: evening
- Television screenwriting
- Ways into poetry
- Writing children's books (continuation)
- Writing fiction
- Writing for children (continuation)
- Writing for children: evening (continuation)
- Writing your family biography
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