Writing Courses & Workshops
At City Lit, we offer a supportive and inspiring environment where you can enhance your writing and gain confidence. Our courses are designed to help you find your voice, sharpen your writing skills, and take your work to the next level. Whether you're writing short stories, poetry, or working on a novel, you'll receive expert guidance and feedback from experienced tutors.
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176 courses available
Advanced playwritingDive deeper into the key elements of writing for the theatre, gain fresh critical insight into your own writing, and produce a new draft of your work. This course is designed for experienced playwrights who have work in-progress.Full fee £279.00 Senior fee £279.00 Concession £181.00- Developing your screenwritingContinue your screenwriting journey in this practical intermediate course. Writing exercises, presentations and screenings will teach you key skills, and you’ll begin to produce work and an outline for a full-length project.Full fee £279.00 Senior fee £279.00 Concession £181.00
- Writing for children: workshop
This ongoing workshop offers an opportunity to develop your work-in-progress with constructive feedback from tutor and classmates.
Full fee £279.00 Senior fee £279.00 Concession £181.00 - Ways into creative writingWant to have a go at creative writing in a supportive environment? Join one of these introductory courses. Guided exercises will give you the tools to explore language creatively and find your own writing voice.Full fee £269.00 Senior fee £269.00 Concession £175.00
- Developing your poetryFor those familiar with the basics of poetic form, this intermediate course explores craft and content through reading exercises, writing exercises and constructive feedback. Ideal if you have already attended 'Ways into poetry'.Full fee £279.00 Senior fee £279.00 Concession £181.00
- Writing for children
Always wanted to write a children's book? This practical course will enable you to take the first steps in writing for younger readers with a focus on learning how and what to write for different age groups.
Full fee £279.00 Senior fee £279.00 Concession £181.00 - Reading for writers: creative non-fiction (a fortnightly course)
The best way to learn creative non-fiction is to read good examples. Dive into creative non-fiction, from journalistic features to memoir, and begin to apply the lessons learnt to your own writing in this fortnightly course.
Online
Tue 12 Jan 2027Andrew KenrickFull fee £179.00 Senior fee £179.00 Concession £116.00 - Masterclass: poetry (a one-term intensive workshop)This intensive poetry masterclass is open by selective application to a maximum of ten students. You will receive inspiring tutor instruction and rigorous constructive feedback on your poems as you prepare them for publication and performance.Full fee £429.00 Senior fee £429.00 Concession £429.00
- Masterclass: fiction (a one-term intensive workshop)
This intensive fiction workshop is open by selective application to a maximum of ten fiction writers working at the advanced and professional levels. You will receive rigorous constructive feedback on your novel or short story as you develop it with a view to publication, and participate in detailed tutor-led discussions on advanced elements of fictional craft.
Full fee £429.00 Senior fee £429.00 Concession £429.00 - Developing your writing for children
Made a start with writing a children's book? For those who have learned the basics and understand the age bands into which fiction is structured by contemporary children’s publishing, this practical course will deepen your understanding and develop your ability to create stories appropriate to the age bands and genres of contemporary children's fiction.
Full fee £279.00 Senior fee £279.00 Concession £181.00 - Writing for televisionDo you want to write a script for television? What do you write and where do you start? Through exercises and examples, this course will assist you in developing your own projects.Full fee £279.00 Senior fee £279.00 Concession £181.00
- How to write a murder mysteryWant to write a murder mystery that will knock readers dead? On this course you'll learn how to plot a murder most horrid and develop your writing to create maximum suspense.Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £179.00 Concession £116.00
- Advanced fiction writing workshopFor experienced writers, this supportive but rigorous workshop offers the perfect opportunity to develop your novel or short story. Receive in-depth feedback and benefit from detailed group discussions on the art of fiction.Full fee £279.00 Senior fee £279.00 Concession £181.00
- Poetry workshop: intensiveWant to have your poems critiqued in a supportive environment? This intensive poetry workshop focuses on offering feedback to poets who have already written a selection of poems and are looking to push their writing further.Full fee £179.00 Senior fee £179.00 Concession £116.00
- Ways into screenwritingLearn to write for the screen on this practical, introductory course. Writing exercises, presentations and screenings will teach you key skills, and you’ll begin to produce work and an outline for a full-length project.Full fee £269.00 Senior fee £269.00 Concession £175.00
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