Writing

Writing Courses & Workshops Online & in London

Be inspired to write, and learn how to get published at the college where Andrea Levy, Malorie Blackman, Anna Burns, and other celebrated authors studied. Read our success stories to see what's possible for you as a writer.

Learn from published authors

Whether you're just starting out or ready to publish your first book, the benefits of our writing courses include expert tuition from a published author and feedback on your work as you develop your writing skills. There will also be opportunities to participate in group discussions and activities with fellow students.

Unheard Voices Scholarship

City Lit’s Malorie Blackman Scholarships for 'Unheard Voices' provide three annual awards to fund one year’s study within the Creative Writing department at City Lit. Learn more >

Courses available both in-person and online

Join us in the heart of London for in-person classes. Our modern campus in Covent Garden is easy to reach and buzzing with creativity. With modern purpose-built facilities and state-of-the-art equipment, it’s the perfect space to support your learning journey. Explore our facilities >

Prefer learning online? Our live online courses bring expert teaching to you, wherever you are.

Whether you choose to study in-person or online, all our courses are live, interactive, and taught by expert tutors. Wherever and however you want to learn, we’re here for you.

Courses available both in-person and online

We offer a range of long and short courses allowing you to choose between in-person and online learning.

Learn in the centre of London with our in-person courses. Our purpose-built facilities in Covent Garden mean we are ideally located and easy to get to. 

See our guide to online learning for more information about accessing our live online courses.

All our courses are live, interactive, and taught by expert tutors. No matter how you prefer to learn, we've got the class for you.

See what it's like be part a City Lit online creative writing course.

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  1. Full fee £149.00 Senior fee £119.00 Concession £104.00
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  2. Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £84.00
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  3. Full fee £499.00 Senior fee £399.00 Concession £324.00
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  4. Business administration with digital skills: how to be an administrator (foundation)
    Course start date:  Wed 5 Nov 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Are you a new administrator wanting to develop your skills? Do you want to become an administrator but are unsure what the job entails? Do you need to update your organisational and digital skills for the virtual office? On this course you will learn the essentials of how to be a good administrator whether this is your job or an essential element of your work. You will work on different ways of being organised, how to achieve goals and tasks on time, prioritising and being service-oriented. By the end of this course, you will be confident in your administration skills whatever your environment, face-to-face or online, and that you can deal with administrative complexity, see the bigger picture, be detail-oriented and solve problems calmly.



    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 £139.00 Senior fee £111.00 Concession £70.00
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  5. Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £143.00 Concession £116.00
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  6. ‘Stranger’ Things: Muriel Spark’s Shapeshifting
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    Course start date:  Wed 5 Nov 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Fiona McCulloch
    This course will introduce and discuss two novels by eminent author, Muriel Spark- Memento Mori (1959) and The Ballad of Peckham Rye (1960). Her writing wilfully upends notions of conformity and acts as a disrupter to accepted conventions. Instead, ‘Spark beckons us to encounter the stranger’ (Marilyn Reizbaum). Playfully disrupting passive readers and stretching comfort zones, Spark’s work provides a space to access unaccustomed outlooks that make us rethink our relationship with ourselves, others, and the world. Instead of unconsciously going with the flow, she awakens us to life’s stranger things.
    Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £84.00
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  7. Full fee £299.00 Senior fee £239.00 Concession £194.00
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  8. Full fee £309.00 Senior fee £247.00 Concession £201.00
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  9. Photography in a day: Flash with speedlight
    Course start date:  Thu 6 Nov 2025 (and 2 other dates)

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Matthew Ward

    Lighten things up: join this practical course to learn the basics of using flash on camera (speedlights) to enhance your images. Experiment creatively indoors and outdoors with different flash techniques, with a professional photographer on hand to guide you throughout.

    Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £129.00 Concession £129.00
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  10. Digital video editing: stage 1
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    Course start date:  Thu 6 Nov 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Lily Markiewicz
    Interested in editing your own videos? You may have heard of Premiere Pro or Final Cut. DaVinci Resolve is free and arguably better then both. Come and learn how to use it. Hollywood already does.
    Full fee £279.00 Senior fee £223.00 Concession £181.00
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  11. 20th to 21st Century War Poetry: British and International
    Course start date:  Thu 6 Nov 2025

    Location on this date:  Online

    Tutors:  Stephen Winfield
    Explore the astonishing range of poetic responses to a hundred years of warfare, acts of witnessing, endurance, defiance and condemnation by writers across the globe: Sassoon and Wilfred Owen in Britain, Brecht, Milosz, Celan, Akhmatova and Stepanova in Europe and Russia, Darwish and Zhadan in the Middle East and Ukraine, and many others. How do they describe the indescribable? High art or doggerel, what does it matter once the bombs start to fall?
    Full fee £129.00 Senior fee £103.00 Concession £84.00
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  12. Shakespeare: King Lear and The Tempest
    Course start date:  Thu 6 Nov 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Sophie Oxenham
    Join us to explore two of Shakespeare’s greatest plays, his tragedy King Lear, and his late ‘romance’, The Tempest. We’ll consider the connections – and differences - between these works, thinking about Shakespeare’s use of genre and language, the historical contexts, changing critical perspectives, and aspects of the plays in performance.
    Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £143.00 Concession £116.00
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  13. Still life in the history of art: opulence and fragility
    Course start date:  Thu 6 Nov 2025

    Location on this date:  Keeley Street

    Tutors:  Elizabeth Eyres
    Still-life paintings usually represent ordinary things, often small and arranged on an indoor surface, without human presence. Long regarded in western art as the lowliest subject or “genre”, one that only required technical skill rather than imagination, still lifes are now considered some of the most charming and best loved paintings and can contain intriguing meanings that repay close study.
    Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £143.00 Concession £116.00
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  14. Publish your first book online
    Course start date:  Thu 6 Nov 2025

    Location on this date:  Hybrid (choose either online or in-person)

    Tutors:  Christine Robertson
    Learn how to publish your first book electronically on the Amazon Kindle and other e-book devices using an existing Word document. You will need good internet and file management skills and experience of using Microsoft Word.
    Full fee £269.00 Senior fee £215.00 Concession £175.00
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  15. Full fee £19.00 Senior fee £19.00 Concession £12.00
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