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City Lit is a leading provider of adult education in London and all over the UK. It's the perfect place to learn something new, gain new skills, and build your confidence. From mastering new languages and honing creative skills to advancing your career with professional development courses. Whatever your passion or goal, our diverse curriculum has the perfect course to inspire your next step.

 

 

 

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  1. Digital skills for the workplace: creating newsletters, reports and tables with Word (intermediate)
    Evening
    Course start date:  Tue 3 Mar 2026

    Location on this date:  Online

    Do tables in Word seem to move of their own accord? Do you need to produce newsletters for work or for volunteer groups but are frustrated by shifting text and images? Are you unsure how to maintain consistent formatting across a report? If so, then this is the course for you. On this course you will learn how to produce a newsletter, insert tables, and create simple reports while maintaining consistent formatting and ensuring the layout and presentation is effective and impacting. You will focus on how to produce attractive documents fit for purpose in an efficient and timely manner, vital skills both inside and outside work.



    This course is FREE if you are employed and on a low wage or you are claiming benefits. For more information Click here

    Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £75.00
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  2. Business administration: ICT skills for business (advanced)
    Evening
    Course start date:  Thu 5 Mar 2026

    Location on this date:  Online

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    This course is FREE if you are employed and on a low wage or you are claiming benefits. For more information Click here

    Full fee £159.00 Senior fee £127.00 Concession £80.00
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  3. Submitting your short stories to magazines
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 7 Mar 2026

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Vicky Grut
    This is a fast-track course to help you hone and prepare your short stories for submission to magazines and publishers.
    Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £40.00
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  4. How to write strong women characters
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sun 8 Mar 2026

    Location on this date:  Online

    Celebrate strong women for International Women's Day with this inclusive one-off session on how to create your own, powerful fictional women.
    Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £40.00
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  5. Writing environmental essays and features
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 14 Mar 2026

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Laura Silverman
    Learn what makes environmental writing sing and how to write an article or blog post, from research to editing.
    Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £40.00
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  6. Writing autofiction
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 14 Mar 2026

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Natasha Bell
    Blurring lines between fact and fiction, blending the 'real' and 'imaginary', autofiction is a rich playground for writers. In this short advanced taster course, learn what 'autofiction' is, how it differs from other forms of life writing, and explore how to write it.
    Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £40.00
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  7. Craft focus: narrative time in fiction
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 21 Mar 2026

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Vicky Grut
    All fiction is bound by time: a story must begin and end. In this practical short course learn how time functions in fiction and, through practical writing exercises, how you can manipulate it to great effect. Suitable for those with some creative writing experience.
    Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £40.00
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  8. Writing historical fiction
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sun 22 Mar 2026

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Anna Richards
    Dig into the past to craft historical fiction that speaks vividly to contemporary readers. From Hilary Mantel to C.J. Sansom, learn techniques writers use to turn historical record into compelling fiction.
    Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £40.00
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  9. Write your screenplay: from idea to first draft
    Weekend
    Course start date:  Sat 28 Mar 2026

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Clive Ford
    A good screenplay starts with a good story but it also needs structure, good characters and interesting twists. This is a course for writers who have an idea they think is ready to go. We’ll look at the best ways to grab the viewers’ attention from the off, and at the end of the course you’ll get a chance to pitch your ideas.
    Full fee £79.00 Senior fee £79.00 Concession £40.00
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  10. Japanese 4: module 3
    Evening
    Course start date:  Tue 21 Apr 2026

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Hisaka Bunting
    Improve your level of upper intermediate Japanese. You will be able to understand, speak and listen to more complex expressions in Japanese in various everyday situations.







    Suitable if you have studied Japanese for about 6 years or have an equivalent level. Consolidate your knowledge and understanding of the structures of the Japanese language and work on more



    complex grammatical structures and functions. Suitable if you have studied Japanese for about 5 years or have an equivalent level.
    Full fee £239.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £155.00
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  11. Music theory: counterpoint 3
    Evening
    Course start date:  Tue 21 Apr 2026

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Selena Kay
    Explore the art of counterpoint, a musical technique in which two or more melodies are combined to create a highly engaging musical texture. This term will focus on imitative forms including invention, canon and fugue, as well as analysing examples of counterpoint in repertoire from the Baroque period to Twentieth Century. Break weeks 26th May 2026.
    Full fee £249.00 Senior fee £249.00 Concession £174.00
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  12. Music history bookclub: Viva Violetta and Verdi
    Course start date:  Fri 24 Apr 2026

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Edward Breen
    The music history book club meets towards the end of each term to discuss novels and biographies with musical themes and references relevant to the music history programme.
    Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £19.00
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  13. Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £149.00 Concession £75.00
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  14. Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £90.00 Concession £26.00
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  15. Full fee £59.00 Senior fee £59.00 Concession £59.00
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