Creative writing courses
Explore our fantastic range of creative writing courses, from complete beginners right upto workshops for seasoned authors. You can try your hand at writing poetry, autobiography, crime, children's stories, playwriting and more! Courses run in the evenings, during the day and at weekends, so there's plenty to choose from. Creative writing is one of London's most popular courses, 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
Click here to watch current students performing their own work at City Lit's Between the Lines creative writing event.
From gold medallists to award-winning authors, view our creative writing student stories here.
- A taste of creative writing
- Advanced critical workshop for creative writers
- Autobiographical writing
- Autobiography into fiction
- Comedy sketch writing
- Comedy writing for TV: the mechanics
- Creating fiction
- Creative non fiction weekend
- Creative writing: making characters work
- Crime writing: an introduction
- Developing your writing
- Exploring creativity: word games for writing
- Exploring fiction
- Freelance journalism
- Furthering your creative writing
- How to structure a poem
- How to write fiction
- How to write novels
- How to write novels (continuation)
- Improve your English through creative writing (level 1)
- Improve your English through creative writing (level 2)
- Introduction to novel plotting
- Joke writing
- Monty Python study day
- Performance poetry
- Playwriting: an introduction
- Playwriting: stage 1
- Playwriting: stage 1 (continuation)
- Playwriting: stage 2
- Poetry in the making
- Poetry in the making with John Stammers
- Radio playwriting workshop
- Reading for writing
- Saving your life: writing autobiography
- Screenwriting for TV and cinema
- Screenwriting: an introduction
- Screenwriting: stage 1
- Screenwriting: stage 2
- Scriptwriting for television
- Scriptwriting for television: an introduction
- Short story writing : daytime
- Short story writing: evening
- Towards a novel
- Try your hand at writing drama
- Unlocking your creativity
- Ways into creative writing
- Ways into poetry
- Write a short story from start to finish
- Write a short story in a weekend
- Writers' club
- Writing a short film
- Writing children's books
- Writing children's books (continuation)
- Writing comedy scripts
- Writing comedy scripts 2
- Writing fiction
- Writing for children
- Writing for children (continuation)
- Writing for children workshop
- Writing for children: a taster
- Writing for children: an introduction
- Writing for children: the picture book
- Writing low-budget feature films
- Writing Poetry/Writing Fiction
- Writing satirical comedy
- Writing short stories for magazines
- Writing song lyrics
- Writing surreal comedy
- Writing TV soaps
- Writing your family biography
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