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How to Write a Short Story
GrubStreet
This seminar focuses on developing essential short story writing skills, including character development, plot construction, pacing, and crafting impactful endings. It allows participants to explore narrative styles and helps them start their own stories through prompts.
Website: https://grubstreet.org/
Categories: Short Story and Fiction
Start date:
December, 2025
Price:
$85.00
Based in Boston
Level: Beginner
Length:
3 hours
Class size: 50 Seats Max
Focuses on mastering story elements, character development, and the Hero's Journey. If you’re a screenwriter, novelist, filmmaker, game developer or storyteller in any arena, this course will empower you to captivate your readers and audiences to achieve both artistic AND commercial success.
Website: https://www.udemy.com/
Categories: Fiction and Screenplay
Start date:
Open all year round
Price:
$95.00
Online course
Level: Any
Length:
Self-paced over 39 lectures
Class size: Unlimited
A comprehensive guide to script writing, covering industry concepts, dialogue techniques, creating suspense, and writing effective scenes.
Website: https://www.udemy.com/
Categories: Fiction and Screenplay
Start date:
Open all year round
Price:
$85.00
Online course
Level: Any
Length:
Self-paced (est. 5 hours)
Class size: Unlimited
This Screenwriting Bootcamp is a course designed to help you write an entire screenplay in just 14 days. You’ll learn how to develop compelling characters, build strong conflict, and create a screenplay that’s both engaging and marketable.
Website: https://www.udemy.com/
Categories: Fiction and Screenplay
Start date:
Open all year round
Price:
$60.00
Online course
Level: Any
Length:
Self-paced over 42 lectures (est. 4 hours)
Class size: Unlimited
TV Structure for Pilot Writing
Writing Pad
This one-day clinic focuses on the fundamentals of TV pilot structure, including act breaks, arcs, and cliffhangers. It combines lectures, writing exercises, and Q&A to help students create compelling stories.
Website: https://writingpad.com/
Categories: Screenplay and Fiction
Start date:
July, 2026
Price:
$99.00
Online course
Level: Intermediate
Length:
1 session, 3 hours long
Class size: 25
This course teaches how to write high-quality literature reviews and research articles in STEM. It covers topics like selecting titles, critical reading, structuring essays, creating figures, and using Harvard-style referencing. Includes examples from the instructor's own essays.
Website: https://www.skillshare.com/
Categories: Essay, Nonfiction, and Scientific
Start date:
Open all year round
Price:
Free
Online course
Level: Any
Length:
Self-paced over 23 lessons
Class size: Unlimited
The course teaches effective blog writing for scientists, emphasizing public relations and SEO techniques. It includes lessons on topic selection, writing for different audiences, and utilizing graphics and social media for promotion.
Website: https://www.skillshare.com/
Categories: Blog, Essay, and Scientific
Start date:
Open all year round
Price:
Free
Online course
Level: Intermediate
Length:
Self-paced over 12 lessons
Class size: Unlimited
Poetry Explorations: Scientific Topics
Skillshare
In this class, you will discover ways to explore the physical and natural world by means of poetry. You will use observation, creative play, and iterative building, along with the constraints of forms, and the flexibility of free verse to represent scientific knowledge as poetic works of art.
Website: https://www.skillshare.com/en/browse
Categories: Poetry and Scientific
Start date:
Open all year round
Price:
Free
Online course
Level: Any
Length:
Self-paced over 12 lessons
Class size: Unlimited
Prompt Your Passion
San Diego Writers
Mindfulness-based writing workshop using creative prompts to inspire intuitive expression and enhance self-awareness.
Website: https://writeyourstorynow.org/
Categories: Book, Fiction, and Nonfiction
Start date:
January, 2026
Price:
$34.00
Based in San Diego
Level: Any
Length:
1 session (2 hours)
Class size: Unlimited
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
Memoir VI: Pitching, Editing, Queries, and Hooks
Write Your Story Now
The course focuses on editing memoirs, peer editing, and provides an overview of publishing options with guest professionals.
Website: https://writeyourstorynow.org/
Categories: Book, Memoir, Nonfiction, and Publishing
Start date:
October, 2026
Price:
$252.00
Online course
Level: Intermediate
Length:
6 sessions
Class size: Unlimited
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
Creating & Writing Your First TV Pilot
Write Your Story Now
The course covers the entire process of TV screenwriting, aiming to create a complete pilot episode. Key aspects include story structure, writing loglines, premises, outlines, and scripts, with peer and instructor feedback.
Website: https://writeyourstorynow.org/
Categories: Fiction and Screenplay
Start date:
March, 2026
Price:
$336.00
Online course
Level: Any
Length:
8 sessions
Class size: Unlimited
Prerequisites: No prerequisites
This course focuses on developing picture book characters, understanding picture books' unique qualities, and creating original manuscripts. It includes reading examples, writing prompts, and peer feedback.
Website: https://www.porchtn.org/
Categories: Book and Kids
Start date:
March, 2026
Price:
$242.00
Online course
Level: Any
Length:
4 weeks
Class size: Unlimited
