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Three-Day Critique Workshop

Cascade Writers

This workshop offers a unique opportunity for writers to submit up to 4000 words of their work for critique in a group setting, led by industry professionals including Arley Sorg and Cat Rambo. The program includes pitch sessions to an agent, one-hour workshops, and panel presentations on various writing and publishing topics. It's a chance to polish the first pages and chapters of your project, with optional casual gatherings to network with other writers, editors, and agents​​​​.

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Prerequisites: 4000 words of your novel, short story, or whatever project you are working on.

Business Writing: Proposals, Reports & Documents

Professional & Continuing Education

This 7-week online course is perfect for technical and non-technical professionals looking to advance their careers through well-crafted business narratives, proposals, and reports. With no formal admission requirements, it caters to individuals with foundational English writing skills and familiarity with style guides. The course, priced at $949, emphasizes clear, concise writing, document structure, audience consideration, and effective editing, requiring a weekly commitment of 7 to 9 hours.

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Writing Children's Literature

Explore the enchanting world of children's picture books in this 9-week online course. Ideal for those keen on writing for children, it covers the unique challenges of this genre, blending text and illustration. You'll learn about story structure, narrative voice, and the art of revising work. The course promises practical experience in drafting a picture book, requiring a weekly commitment of 7 to 9 hours​​​​​​​​​​​​​​.

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Fiction Writing: The Novel

Dive into the intricacies of novel writing with this 9-week online course. It's tailored for intermediate to advanced fiction writers working on novels or story collections. The curriculum includes enhancing prose, structuring novels, and creating compelling scenes, with an expected weekly commitment of 7 to 9 hours. The course emphasizes practical application, aiming to produce polished prose and a structured plan for your book​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​.

Website: https://www.pce.uw.edu/courses/fiction-writing-the-novel

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Prerequisites: Experienced writers who are finishing (or currently working on) a publishable work.

The Art of Writing

This online course, spanning 9 to 10 weeks, is perfect for anyone looking to enhance their writing skills, from beginners to more experienced writers. Focusing on fundamental writing principles and practices, it covers key aspects like crafting strong sentences, showing versus telling, language refinement, and effective editing. The course, which is part of a certificate program, also delves into using strong nouns and verbs, maintaining tension, and amplifying conflict in writing.

Website: https://www.pce.uw.edu/courses/the-art-of-writing

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Seattle Writing Workshop

This one-day intensive workshop, scheduled for May 11, 2024, offers a comprehensive guide on getting published. Open to writers of all genres, it features classes on writing, publishing, and marketing, with options for one-on-one pitches to literary agents. It's an in-person event at the Seattle Convention Center, ideal for aspiring authors seeking publication​​​​​​.

Website: https://theseattlewritingworkshop.com/

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Rekindle School

Taught by an independent Seattle filmmaker, this class covers the screenplay writing process, including structure, identifying target audiences, and marketing. Students will practice writing scenes and short scripts and receive feedback on their work. The course spans four Monday sessions at $150, offering practical knowledge and writing experience.

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The University of Washington English Department's Creative Writing Program offers a BA in English with a concentration in Creative Writing and a two-year Master of Fine Arts  degrees in Poetry and Prose. 

Founded in 1947 by Theodore Roethke, the Creative Writing Program's tradition of transformative workshops continues with our current faculty:  David Bosworth , Nikki David Crouse ,  Rae Paris ,  David Shields,  and  Maya Sonenberg  (Prose), and  Linda Bierds (part-time) ,  Andrew Feld ,  Richard Kenney,  and  Pimone Triplett  (Poetry).  They include among their many honors fellowships from the MacArthur Foundation, the Guggenheim Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Arts, as well as prizes such as the Flannery O’Connor Award in Short Fiction and the McCarthy Prize. The list of our alumni publications represents a significant chapter in the history of American literature. 

The MFA Program remains purposely small, admitting only ten students per year. The relatively small size of our program (20 students at most at any given time) allows for close associations to develop among students and faculty. The first year is devoted to participation in workshops and literary seminars, and the second year allows for concentrated work on a creative manuscript and critical essay under the supervision of two creative writing faculty members. 

The BA in English with a Creative Writing Concentration prepares students not only to be more effective communicators and artists, but also creative problem solvers and more nuanced critical thinkers. By situating small, student-oriented writing workshops alongside literary models, Creative Writing classes enhance the broader study of literature and critical theory, helping students gain a greater understanding of the social and cultural forces informing their work. A student completing the program is more able to situate themselves in a larger aesthetic and social context and make more meaningful, informed decisions about their own artistic practice. In addition, through the intense practice of creative writing, students are able to see the world more clearly, in a more nuanced and meaningful manner, and apply these skills to a wide variety of work and life situations.

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Program Coordinator: Shannon Mitchell 

Graduate Program Advisor: Tim Cosgrove

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Writers workshop for high school.

This course serves as an introductory-level creative writing workshop. You’ll explore and develop your own voice across various genres, including poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, spoken word, visual or multimodal media and/or hybrid mediums. You’ll read, share and constructively critique each other’s work in a supportive writing community and build toward composing a final portfolio of creative work. The workshop culminates in a class reading that's open to family and friends. 

What You'll Learn

  • How to write across multiple modes of discourse
  • How to give and receive feedback one-on-one and with groups
  • Strategies for exploring and developing your individual creative voice
  • How to create a portfolio of your work

Who Should Register 

This course is for ninth to 12th graders who are interested in creative writing and eager to gather with peers to share inspiration, ideas and approaches to writing. Creative writing experience is not necessary. This course is not for those who need remedial writing help, and all students should have a high level of English language proficiency.

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This online course is taught via Canvas and/or Zoom video conferencing. Classes meet in real time and are not recorded. Activities are held both synchronously and asynchronously. To participate, you should have access to a computer with a high-speed internet connection, a headset and a webcam. 

See the Policies  page for details about registration, refunds, waitlists and more. 

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Workshops for people who are serious about writing

Clarion West is a nonprofit literary organization that runs an acclaimed six-week residential workshop every summer, online classes and workshops, one-day and weekend workshops, a reading series every summer, and other events throughout the year.

At Clarion West, you’ll be among award-winning and best-selling writers in science fiction, fantasy, games, horror, and more. Our workshops and classes are taught by world-class instructors from across the field of speculative fiction. Wherever you may be in your career, whether novice or sage, we offer a diverse listing of classes that is packed with valuable information to take your writing to the next level.

What is speculative fiction? There are as many definitions for speculative fiction as there are authors working under its broad umbrella. Learn more about how our community defines speculative fiction.

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Our Mission

We support emerging and underrepresented voices by providing writers with world-class instruction to empower their creation of wild and amazing worlds. Through conversation and public engagement, we bring those voices to an ever-expanding community.

We aim to set writers on the path to success, foster greater equity and inclusion in the speculative fiction world, help bring quality speculative fiction to light, and bring writers and readers together.

Speculative fiction—science fiction, fantasy, horror, magic realism, and slipstream—gives voice to those who explore societal and technological change, along with deeper considerations of underlying archetypes of human experience. Although there are fine science fiction and fantasy writers of all ethnicities, races, and genders, historically the field has reflected the same prejudices found in the culture around it, leading to proportionately fewer successful writers of color and women writers than white male writers. Within the limitations of the workshop, Clarion West is dedicated to improving those proportions.

Looking for the Clarion West Six-Week Workshop? Every summer, the Six-Week Workshop offers time away from everyday distractions and encouragement to experiment and take artistic risks. The critique sessions are the heart of the workshop: students learn not only by receiving critiques, but by reading others’ work and constructing their own critiques. Instructors work directly with attendees to present group critiques of newly written stories, participate in discussions about writing techniques or professional concerns, and hold individual or small-group conferences.  Learn more about the Six-Week Workshop.

In addition, we offer instruction throughout the year with workshops and classes that vary in intensity, topic, and number of sessions. We invite prominent authors from across a broad range of speculative fiction to teach our classes and workshops. A few of our most recent instructors include N. K. Jemisin, Samit Basu, Cat Rambo, Ted Chiang, P. Djèlí Clark, Karen Lord, Daniel Abraham, Elizabeth Hand, Cadwell Turnbull, Alaya Dawn Johnson, Amal El-Mohtar, Nicola Griffith, Karen Joy Fowler, Kij Johnson, and Nisi Shawl. Learn more about our online classes and workshops.

You can support Clarion West’s mission to forge new voices in speculative fiction in many different ways.  Learn how you can get involved with the Clarion West community!

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The Creative Writing program at Seattle University takes the stand that good readers make good writers. Rather than offering a stand-alone writing degree, the Seattle University English Department offers a literature-focused English major with a Creative Writing concentration in the belief that developing critical reading and analytical skills is essential to a writer’s evolution.

Program Benefits

  • Literature-focused undergraduate English/Creative Writing degree
  • Personal attention from faculty
  • Classes in multiple genres
  • Seattle University/Elliott Bay Book Company Reading Series
  • Visiting writer/professors
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Emphasizing the craft of writing and the close reading of classic and contemporary texts, Seattle University’s Creative Writing program includes core English classes in British, American and ethnic literature as well as writing courses in multiple genres, including fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, and playwriting or screen writing.

As a result Creative Writing students not only acquire experience writing creatively, they also hone their skills writing about the great works of literature they encounter as English majors.

Why study Creative Writing? To think outside the norm. To develop the ability to write with wit and grace. To learn to tell compelling stories. These are some of the great benefits of studying Creative Writing. Students who study English and Creative Writing develop strong research, reading and writing skills—skills that easily translate into careers in fiction writing, journalism, academia, marketing, advertising, and technical writing, as well as government, law and business. Learn more about career possibilities here .

Degrees offered:

  • Bachelor of Arts in English/Creative Writing
  • Bachelor of Arts in English/Creative Writing with  Departmental Honors
  • English/Creative Writing minor

The Uniquely Seattle University Experience: Creative Writing Students English majors who read and respond to literature in class and in writing, and in the process learn to see how great writers make language work for them.

The program offers creative writing classes across genres including fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry and script writing as well as in special topics such as the graphic novel, science fiction, literary fiction, screenplay writing and others.

While Creative Writing students will have the opportunity to work closely with English and Creative Writing faculty in the English department, they will also have the chance to study with visiting professors from the Pacific Northwest’s vibrant artistic community. Visiting writers have included fiction writer Kathleen Alcalá, Washington State Poet Laureate Sam Green, comic/graphic novelist Peter Bagge, detective fiction writer Skye Moody, science fiction author Steven Barnes, and screenplay writer Stewart Stern.

As part of their program, students can acquire additional experience by contributing to the 50-plus-year-old Fragments literary magazine , attending literary readings at the nearby Elliott Bay Book Company, competing for the Gerald Manley Hopkins SJ writing prize, participating in internships at publishing companies, magazines and arts organizations, studying abroad  in Paris or Ireland and other locales, attending the opera and building portfolios of their work.

Students also will have the chance to become part of the dynamic cultural and literary community that thrives in Seattle, Washington.

Come join us! Contact Dr. Susan Meyers, Director, Creative Writing Program, Department of English, [email protected] .

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The art of narrative writing.

Do you have a compelling story? Want to learn the craft of narrative writing? Dr. Nick O’Connell teaches time-honored principles with a relaxed style in a sequence of four enjoyable Seattle writing courses. From nut graph to structure, from lead to climax, Nick has transformed my writing career from scientific researcher to riveting narrative non-fiction author.

– Dr. David G. Embrey is a freelance writer from Puyallup, Washington.

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Narrative writing is perhaps the greatest of the literary arts, allowing writers to tell compelling stories, reach a wide audience and satisfy some of their deepest yearnings for pattern, mystery, and coherence in their lives.

While narrative writing allows for great scope and ambition, it also demands mastery of form and structure to succeed. An ability to manipulate form and structure allows a writer to create stories that entrance readers and transform their lives. The mastery of these techniques does not come easily, alas. It requires commitment to the habit of art to write excellent fiction or creative nonfiction.

My Seattle writing classes will help you develop your own habit of art, mastering the craft of narrative writing essential to creating fiction and nonfiction stories. Each quarter I offer a Seattle-based writing class in narrative writing for creative nonfiction and fiction. The emphasis varies from writing class to writing class, but all of the courses provide detailed, constructive criticism of your stories and book chapters.

The four writing classes form a sequence, introducing you to all the essential elements of creative nonfiction and fiction writing: dramatic scenes, scene by scene construction, character sketches, research and interviewing, first and third person point of view, story ideas, dramatic outlines and publishing strategies. They may be taken independently, but altogether they give you a comprehensive introduction to the art and craft of narrative writing. You’ll learn more about the craft of writing than you would in most MFA programs, at a fraction of the cost.

Every one of the narrative writing classes requires that participants write a story or book chapter, revise it, and prepare it for publication. This focus on honing and perfecting the prose and finding a suitable outlet for it has resulted in students making real breakthroughs in their work. Many have gone on to publish their stories in magazines like Newsweek and the New York Times Magazine and sell their books to prominent publishing houses worldwide – read Reviews here .

The writing classes take place generally on Wednesday evenings from 7 to 9 p.m. PST via Zoom and in hybrid format in the historic Good Shepherd Center in Seattle’s Wallingford neighborhood, headquarters of Seattle Tilth and a number of arts and nonprofit organizations. Enrollment is limited to 15.

Cancellation policy: Full refund up until the first night. After the first night, there will be no refund, save for a family or personal emergency. In the event of such an emergency, I will give you credit toward taking another class or a doing an online class with me.

Sign up early. The classes usually fill several weeks prior to the starting date. Please feel free to contact me if you have more questions and would like to enroll.

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    Local Writing Organizations. Cascadia Poetics Lab. Workshops and poetry festivals. Clarion West. Workshops and annual conference for speculative fiction writers. Emerald City Romance Writers. Monthly programs; annual Emerald City Writers Conference in the fall. Hugo House: A Place for Writers. Classes and events for emerging and established ...

  7. Creative Writing Program

    The University of Washington English Department's Creative Writing Program offers a BA in English with a concentration in Creative Writing and a two-year Master of Fine Arts degrees in Poetry and ... Creative Writing classes enhance the broader study of literature and critical theory, helping students gain a greater understanding of the social ...

  8. Classes and workshops

    Seattle Writes: Free classes, workshops, write-ins and podcasts for writers at Seattle Public Library locations. Sno-Isle Libraries: Events under the heading Writing & Poetry. Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators / Inland Northwest: Programs, retreats and conference for adults writing for children and teens.

  9. Pacific Northwest Resources

    The Writer's Workshop The Writer's Workshop is an on-campus and online writing program based in Seattle, Washington. The Writer's Workshop offers classes in Creative Nonfiction, Nonfiction book, travel and fiction writing. Contact [email protected] (206-284-7121) for more info.

  10. Seattle Writing Classes, Travel Writing Classes, Online Writing Classes

    There's still room in my Summer Writing Classes and online writing classes. Sign up early to reserve your spot! Learn the secrets of the travel writing trade in my Travel, Food and Wine Writing Class in Burgundy (May, 2024). Take a look at my recent publications, All in a Spellbinding Ashland Weekend and All and Nothing: Inside Free Soloing ...

  11. Writers Workshop for High School

    This course is for ninth to 12th graders who are interested in creative writing and eager to gather with peers to share inspiration, ideas and approaches to writing. Creative writing experience is not necessary. This course is not for those who need remedial writing help, and all students should have a high level of English language proficiency ...

  12. Clarion West

    You can support Clarion West's mission to forge new voices in speculative fiction in many different ways. Learn how you can get involved with the Clarion West community! Connect with Clarion West! and , , or for all the freshest news about our workshops, events, and alumni. The Six-Week Workshop will be in Seattle from June 16 to July 27.

  13. Creative Writing

    The Creative Writing program at Seattle University takes the stand that good readers make good writers. Rather than offering a stand-alone writing degree, ... The program offers creative writing classes across genres including fiction, creative non-fiction, poetry and script writing as well as in special topics such as the graphic novel ...

  14. Find resources for writers

    A list of books, online resources and recordings on publishing. Seattle Writes: Our Favorite Writing Books. A selection of recommended books on writing. Eulalie and Carlo Scandiuzzi Writers' Room. A space for established writers to work and use the Library collection at the Central Library. Admission is by application. Local Writing Organizations.

  15. Young Writers

    Lighthouse's Young Writers Camps are led by published and award-winning writers, and each workshop is designed to foster creativity, self-expression, and excitement about writing in young writers aged 8 to 18. Registration for half-day camp and applications for full-day camp will open on January 1, 2019. Learn More.

  16. Seattle writing classes, Seattle writing courses, Seattle writing

    Each quarter I offer a Seattle-based writing class in narrative writing for creative nonfiction and fiction. The emphasis varies from writing class to writing class, but all of the courses provide detailed, constructive criticism of your stories and book chapters. The four writing classes form a sequence, introducing you to all the essential ...

  17. Writing

    Hone your writing skills, craft a memoir or start the next great American novel! Classes are online at this time. Many of the following classes are offered by our online educational partner, Ed2Go. Learn more by reading our Online Class FAQ. ... Seattle Central College Continuing Education 1701 Broadway BE1139 I-M Seattle, WA 98122

  18. Pacifica Writers' Workshop

    We provide creative writing opportunities through classes, workshops, camps, and tutoring. ... Poetry Workshop Participant, Seattle "I loved the play at the end of the session! My kids were SO excited about it. They talked about it for weeks before, what props they needed, who was playing which part. The teacher was really nice and enthusiastic.

  19. English, Literature, and Writing Studies

    The English department offers courses in literature, creative writing, composition and pre-college English. The department also supports the Bruce McKenna Writing Center at Seattle Central. Strong reading and writing skills are invaluable as students continue their education and crucial to almost any career path they may be considering.